which is more beneficial and techno wise? cms or html?

Question

i need a lil help here guyz, if anybody there can help me... which is more beneficial and techno wise for a website, cms or html?

ok for clarification. Static or Dynamic website. i know that the html is a webcode for internet and websites, but usually a static website is built of html codes right? and dynamic website doesn't require an IT specialist. what i am trying to ask is, which website format is more advisable?

Answer 1

Don't you just hate TLAs! They have to be used in the correct context or there could be a complete missunderstanding of the meaning.

HTML is the formatting language of the internet and therefore the basis of any web page. There is also CSS Style sheets to create an overall style to a website using a single style file.
To create a dynamic webpage you have Javascript or VBscript.

In addition to this there is also server processing. This is available using perl script, ASP or PHP. There is also Java and JSP to give both dynamic webpage and server side processing.

Now to your TLA.
CMS means either Church Mission Society or it means Content Management System.
I hope it is the second. In this instant CMS is web coding using html, dynamic web coding and server side coding to allow a user to update the content of a web page without any knowledge of programming or scripting. You write the code to allow this to be done. There may also be a database involved to hold the web page information.

I hope this helps.

Answer 2

Any cms will produce html code in order to run the content, so the question is self-contradictory.

However, in response to your amplification, a cms will give you the potential for a big site, and make it easy to add content quickly. But the initial design has to be sorted out first, which the cms will not do for you - for that you will need someone who understands html and css, probably also php to integrate it with the cms (or whatever other language the cms is written in).

Don't think a cms will solve all your problems without hassle. Initial installation and such is not a walk in the park. But once it's up and running, it will be ok.

CMS sites are almost always dynamic (which means the content is held elsewhere, like a database, and the pages are actually created "on the fly"). If you only want a small site, you just need a static site, where each page is created in html.