Database-driven

The pages of a website and the related navigation system should generally achieve a sense of harmony, unifying the overall look and feel of the online presence. The prevailing philosophy behind the use of WAVES is its ability to unify a website from all perspectives: design, navigation, and organization. 

The relational database that sits behind WAVES is the key to achieving this unity, and it offers a number of distinct advantages. Multiple looks and feels can be created for content that’s housed in a single, shared location. The content that then populates the site is drawn from this common source instead of a series of disparate database tables and flat files.  It’s best to look at the WAVES relational database as a collective and complete pool of information from which all site components are dynamically drawn.

Relational databases are powerful because they require few assumptions about how content is related or how it will be extracted from the database. Therefore, content can be utilized and viewed in many different ways within the same website, fostering a dynamic and global site presentation.