Brochure website
A brochure website is an online version of what would amount to printed brochures that you would commonly hand out to a client to promote your business products and services.
Ideally they are best controlled by a CMS and database making it easier and more cost effective to update. Regular updates are far more benefial to your search engine reults.
The difference between a simple brochure website and a fully fledged website that has been configured to maximise all the elements required to rank in the search engines can amount to a lot more time and money and still look the same at a basic level, it is only when you get under the hood that the difference can be fully realised and understood.