Many of the interactive sites Lyon Web builds are database-driven. Put simply, this means that the pages are specially designed to pull their content from a data source instead of having to actually include all of the info on each and every page.
What's the value in this? There are many huge advantages to this kind of a database-driven site, which is called a "dynamic" site. Say you wanted to sell your list of 1,000 products at a site. Would you rather have 1,000 different web pages with all of the product details manually typed into each? Or one page that looked at the database for the specific product descriptions, prices and details, and then showed exactly what a customer wanted from a single page?
It's a lot easier to maintain a web site that uses a single template page instead of one that has a sheaf of pages and no database backing it. If you want to edit the design or navigation of a site, you only have to edit the one page of a dynamic site. It's also much easier to maintain the data by storing it in a single source file like a PostgreSQL or MySQL database.
And, best of all, that data can be managed with ease via the Internet. With our sites, we build in secure, easy-to-use Web page forms that let you add, edit or delete products and other page content. All that's needed is an Internet connection and a Web browser. Changes made instantly become live on the site. You don't need to pay us to make changes to the site -- you're in control of your own information, like you should be.
That's what we call "Web Connect To Your Data," and it's our specialty. Go to the "Interactive Demos & Samples" link at left here, and you can enter a copy of the database-backed site we built for a restaurant. You can try it yourself -- add, edit, and delete items, then see your changes live on the Web. Then talk to us about getting connected to your data.