23.1. Pieces of the Puzzle

You may be thinking, "Yeah, that sounds fantastic, but so did that time-share in the Bahamas. What's the catch?"

The catch is that dynamic websites are more complex and require more technologies to get off the ground. Simple static websites require only the computer you use to build them and a web server to dish them out. In fact, as you can see by previewing your site with a web browser on your own computer, you don't even need a web server to effectively view a static website.