So far we've been building a static website as opposed to a dynamic website. 1
This probably doesn't really tell you much. 2
Let me explain. 3
Let's say we have an article page for our blog. When we need a new blog post, 4
we can simply duplicate this page and change the content. 5
No problem. 6
Now, what if at some point we decide that we want to make some layout changes to this article page template? 7
Well, no problem we can copy those changes to the second article page. 8
And when you have 100 article pages then you're ready to give up your web design career. 9
This is static content. 10
Each page is independent from one another. And content of that blog post exists only on that particular 11
page. 12
Enter dynamic content. This time, content doesn't live inside each page. 13
They now live in the database. Neatly organized, sort of like in a spreadsheet. And then anywhere on 14
the website, we can reference any of these database items and pull them to display on the page. 15
This database is called CMS, short for content management system. 16
I know, very sexy name. With dynamic content 17
we have only one article page template. A master page. And within this master page, we can reference those 18
database items. And each time any article page loads Webflow will pull appropriate content for each item. 19
Now, if we make any changes to this master page, it will instantly reflect on every other page, 20
even if we have 5000 of those. That's the power of Webflow's CMS and dynamic content. 21
We're going to learn all about it in this section. How to create seamless items, how to create master 22
pages, how to reference the CMS and so on. 23
Stick around.