ABSTRACT

Of course, the advent of widely available static information is a huge jump forward. There is no need to apologize for making high-quality information available on static pages, if that information is useful to the viewer. However, there is more that can be done, and the growth of database-driven Web sites, cascading style sheets, and user-customized content is offering dynamic content to more and more users. We consider this evolution in the content and functionality of the Internet to be important and divide its growth into roughly three stages, as shown in Table 16-1.