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