In the early days of the Web, websites consisted mostly of static documents that displayed text and an occasional picture. But as the Web evolved, such static websites slowly gave way to dynamic web applications.
Web applications are like computer programs. They process data or information stored in databases of some sort and produce an output that you and I see as web pages.
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Office Live Small Business is a web application too. It stores your information—site name, theme, color settings, text, images, and practically everything you create or set using Page Manager, Site Designer, and Page Editor, into a database. When a visitor requests a page on your site, Office Live Small Business does its magic and assembles all of these pieces of information into a web page and sends it to the visitor's browser.
But if a computer program is generating your web page, why not have it add a few advanced elements to the page? That's exactly what Office Live Small Business...