What Is Dynamic Content?

Topics & Timestamps

• What is dynamic content? | 00:02:11
  - Content that is constantly changing and evolving dynamically on a website
  - A tech blog is a good example of a website that is filled with dynamic content, writers are constantly submitting new articles to the blog
  - The YouTube home page is another good example, where the videos shown are always different and vary per user based on their watch history, location, etc.
• Why is dynamic content important? | 00:10:52
  - Going through a real-world example, analyzing the AutoTrader Canada website for dynamic and static components
• Designing a CMS with dynamic content in mind | 00:30:11
  - Not building out a completely new CMS
  - Putting together a CMS' fields in such a way that a website editor can easily fill in what they need to, to publish their content and have it displayed the way they want
• The problem with dynamic content | 00:52:14
  - Overengineering the CMS such that the site is more dynamic than it should be (beyond what the customer wants and/or understands)"
  - Where is the line between creator freedoms and considerations for the website reader?

Sources

• LivingWithPixels (YouTube Video)