Echoing results from a database

[eluser]jedd[/eluser]
A lot of this is six of one stuff. There is no clear 'right' way of doing a lot of things, which can be a tad frustrating.

If the intro text ever needs to be updated by someone - and that someone will be a user (rather than you) then you'll need a way of making that change. That's the only real consideration there. Same consideration for site title, admin email, contact-us, etc.

Database lookups can be expensive, but they're not as expensive as you may think. It's instructive to play with the [url="http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/general/profiling.html"]profiling feature of CI[/url] to get an insight into just how expensive different things are, particularly your database calls.

Mind, you'll find that [url="http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/general/caching.html"]caching[/url] might negate your concerns in this example anyway.