subject: Web Application Development: The Emergence Of Hybrids [print this page] If you are going to start from scratch, which would you prefer: a website or a web application? First theres a need to define both. A web app runs on a browser enabling the users to perform specific actions. The sole purpose of a web page meanwhile is to provide information to the user. At least, these descriptions used to be true. Now the lines that separate website and web application development in UK are already vague.
Hybrid sites
Really, when it comes to web pages and web apps now, theres no black and white answer. You can say that online news providers are websites because their main purpose it to provide information, but some allows you to download web logs, or utilize videos which are considered as web applications.
One way to look at Web application development in UK is that the final product should be highly functional and intelligent. Could it be they are capable of absorbing new information provided by its users to be stored and filed for future use? A good amount of evidence certainly supports this definition. If you put register/log on features in your site, theoretically it can track how the users are navigating through the pages and subsequently make recommendations on how you can improve their browsing experience.
Form follows purpose
Although its very simplistic, another way to differentiate web page and web app is to determine their initial purpose. If it is designed to deliver content through a series of templates to either inform or educate and even entertain the user, then it can be classified as a website.
However, if it is designed primarily to sell a product or enable customers to make transactions as in e-commerce, then it forms part of a Web Application Development Company UK.
Evolution
Now going by that definition, the domain may evolve from mainly information to being interactive but considering the original purpose its still a website. Consider the official website of the National Basketball Association, for example, whose main goal was to satisfy the urges of basketball fanatics by providing them with updated news and information about their favorite players and teams. But now, you can play videos and fantasy basketball in the website, too. Should the NBA site now be considered as web app? The answer is no. It is still a website, although it utilities a web app. The complexity of consumer needs, therefore, necessitates the adoption of Web application development UK.
