- Yes, you need a database driven web site if you would like your web site to:
- require visitors to sign in with a user ID and password before allowing them to access certain screens and
- perform certain functions
- display time sensitive information for seminars, classes, networking events, etc. and have this information stop
- being displayed without manual intervention once the date has passed
- gather information from visitors that is to be displayed to other visitors as in an on-line community, a BLOG,
- WIKI, etc.
- allow visitors to search and view information available on the site
- gather information from visitors that you would like to sort, print, and/or have reports produced from later such
- as contact information, resumes, surveys, etc.
- display items available for visitors to purchase, some of which may be on sale for a limited time, and have these
- items stop being displayed when your inventory is gone or have prices of sale items change after a certain date
- without manual intervention
If the information you wish to display in a web site or gather from a visitor is such that it can be formatted into a table, than you may need a data driven web site.