Thinking of designing your own website?, MS Frontpage is a good starting point. It is widely available, well supported and reasonably priced.

Why MS Frontpage?

If you’re familiar with other members of Microsoft family such as Excel, Word or Powerpoint then you’ll find Frontpage easy to pick up.

A concept that most beginners find hard to get used to is that of client and server, in which product only fully functions once published to a web server.

Frontpage copes well here, its preview function showing how pages will look, once published.

Dynamic pages and Search Engines By Clare Lawrence 10th March 2003 Clare is CEO of Discount Domains Ltd a leading UK Domain name registration service.

Do search engines such as Google penalise dynamic pages?

Dynamic pages are used to deliver content from a database to websites – advantage being that data can be updated and contents of pages changed without need to reload pages etc.

Google publishes guidance notes on its site at http://www.google.com/webmasters/2.html and at http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html

These say that dynamic pages are indexed but that Googlebot ( Google’s spider ) can overwhelm dynamic sites and therefore amount of pages indexed are limited

Google recommends:- “If you decide to use dynamic pages (i.e. URL contains a ‘?’ character) be aware that not every search engine spider crawls dynamic pages as well as static pages. It helps to keep parameters short and number of them small.

How to get dynamic pages indexed