The next step up from a basic website is the Database driven website. It generally means a website where the content frequently changes, for example a forum, news site or web log (blog). It can also mean a site where the content is interactive or rich with animation or other multi-media.

If you require a site where you can regularly change the information then you will require a website database. These sites are designed to take content (images, text etc.) from a databases only when a user requests a page. This means that a page requested on a particular day may be different to the same page request a day later even though the website has not been changed. By changing the data in the database you are automatically changing the website. These sites come with secure areas containing applications to allow you to change the content yourself, without the need for a developer.