Database design

Let's Talk Graphics designed and developed its first database in 1982. We continue to offer this valuable service today, oftentimes coupling a backend database with a frontend website.

Why a database?

If you have volumes of information to track or publish, consider a custom-crafted database, or database-driven website.

Standalone database: When a company employs a generic database to satisfy their unique data collection requirements, it can be like trying to pound a square peg into a round hole. A custom-crafted database instead tailors unique business requirements and processes in to existing data collection methods. In short, you don't change your business processes based on what a generic database wants, Let's Talk Graphics develops a custom database that fits in to your current workflow.

Database-driven website: A database-driven website (a.k.a. dynamic website or database application) offers a number of advantages over a static HTML-only website.

Who uses a database-driven website?

An E-commerce site could not exist without a database. All of the information, from the product's picture, to its stock-on-hand, to its price, are all stored inside a database. Other types of websites that use a database:

• A website that has an event calendar A website that displays a directory of information
• A discussion forum website
• A weblog

Advantages of database-driven websites In three words, management, maintenance and versatility.

Properly designed, almost any part of a website can be changed or customized via changes made to a database. Almost every part of the website can be made 'dynamic'. This makes a database-driven website infinitely more versatile compared to a static website.

One of the most important parts of owning a website is maintaining it; making sure that its content changes frequently, that its framework always validates, that it reflects your company's current activities. Maintenance of database-driven website is logistically easier vs. a static website. Most changes occur at the database level -- within the single, clean, interface to the database -- and not within the hundreds, possibly thousands of lines of HTML/CSS/PHP/etc. code that comprise the framework of the website.

A database can be programmed to feed a website variable types of information and at random times. Such programmability opens up many avenues to personalize a website visitor's experience based on how they navigate the site.

There are many other advantages to database-driven websites. Call today to find out how your business can benefit from a database.

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