Static Pages Question

siringo · Post by **siringo** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 12:32 pm

Sorry if this is a dumb question.

Am I able to view the static pages I create via Serendipity in a folder on my web host, as I would a normal html page I would create with my html editor?

Or are they stored in a database?

stm999999999 · Post by **stm999999999** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 2:29 pm

even static pages are created out of the database.

you can edit them in the admin-backend on "static pages" and for more customization you can edit /make new static-page-tpl-files.

siringo · Post by **siringo** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 1:16 am

Thanks for the Stephan.

Can someone help clear this up for me. What is the difference between a static and non static page?

I thought a static page was a page of code that was created and stored as a flat file. Am I correct in thinking that if the content in a static page is pulled out of a database, then that page is dynamically created, hence it's not really static. Or am I missing the meaning of 'static' in this context?

I'm not trying to be hard to get on with, it's just that I'm trying to get a clear understanding of things that's all.

Thanks for any help.

stm999999999 · Post by **stm999999999** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 1:59 am

all content on s9y is created dynamicaly from the database.

The different:

a normal blog-entry has such things as trackbacks, comments. It is the "heart" of a blog. It apperas in the rss-feed and belongs to a category (there is a new way to bind a static page to a category, too - but this is an advanced mode

)

static pages are created for things like "about me", "contact", "impressum" or so. YOu can use it to make pages like on a static homepage around your blog.

So, it is not technicaly static, but by the content.

Did id help to you?

siringo · Post by **siringo** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 9:14 am

Thanks for your help Stephan,

Yes you did help, thanks. So I guess it's static in that the page doesn't get comments added to it or included in RSS feeds, so therefore the content is static. The content of the page is only viewable from the web site, hence the location of the content within the page is static.

Thanks, you've been a great help.