Content Management Systems manage content by storing the content in a database. When a user requests a page by click on a menu item the CMS builds the page for the user by asking questions of the database. No matter how fast the web server is, or how quick the database server is, the time taken to build the pages is always slower than that of an old fashioned HTML web page.

Another problem of database driven sites where the content is purpose built for you is that the mouse click must come all the way from the user to the web server and the page sections need to go all the way back to the user. If there is an outage of any consequence the page may not load correctly.

The TurnKey development team’s solution to both these problems was to give the site owner the option to create old fashion HTML web pages or as a compromise CFML web pages. These pages are cached [stored] on the web server so they can be re-used the next time they are asked for, therefore taking load off the server and providing faster page downloads.

The HTML page option goes a step further by allowing the pages to be cached at your ISP or even in your company's proxy server. This means the pages appear to be much faster and are less likely to be effected by micro outages. Search engine optimisation experts also believe an HTML version of a page will rate more highly with the search engines.

The downside of the HTML version is that the sites statistics package can not record the traffic that is gained by the pages on your ISP's server or your proxy cache and when content is updated the latest version may take some time to appear when the end user accesses the web site.

TurnKey puts you in control - you choose between Search Safe URLs, .CFM or .HTML pages.