Difference b/w Static & Dynamic Websites
Static websites are basically pure HTML files with additional JavaScript and CSS files to make the page more colorful and dynamic in the browser. But what the browser downloads from the server is pure file-based.
In Dynamic websites, there are no HTML files but the HTML is generated on the fly by the server by executing some code that generates the HTML. This HTML generating code can be written in Python, PHP, ASP .NET, ColdFusion, Java, C++ or any other programming language. And this is why it’s called Dynamic as the HTML generating code can create custom HTML for every visitor and every visit, while Static HTML will be the same for all visitors.
Both can be responsive sites, though. And, they can both call the JavaScript & can change the content of page at the browser. Some sites can even mix both Static & Dynamic pages, if needed.
Many HTML generating code will contain some HTML templates inside with additional markup indicating where the server will have to fill in some content. But there are some JavaScript libraries that will do this inside the browser so Static and Dynamic Sites can look extremely similar.
