subject: How Web Apps Differ From Traditional Website [print this page] With technological advancements in every field, people are beginning to demand rich functionality, beautiful presentation, and tightly delivered features from websites apart from it being a traditional website. With web browsers also coming up the time has come to monetize and popularize the concept of apps for the webs. To make popular and useful web apps web application developers need to keep only few things in mind. Let us understand the same one by one.
1)Focus on the core concept
The most important point in creating a web app is to describe its functionality in minimum amount of time and the content of the same should be focused on the topic that depicts the application. The application should be dedicated to this core functionality to make it a hit among the users.
2)Rich Experience
If we compare native desktop applications with the web apps, web applications have certainly an edge over the desktop applications as they offer rich and engaging user experience. An application should be able to exceed the expectations of the user and should be user friendly. The user should be comfortable while using the web application and should be made according to the users needs and user friendly design.
3)Design of the Web App
The web app should be made in a brilliant manner. Latest web browsers offer the option of scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), canvas (a 2D drawing surface), CSS3 transforms and animations, new color models, integrated native video and professional fonts. These latest developments will help the application developers to make more stunning and beautiful apps that would appeal the users eye as well.
4)Speed
The web app that has been developed for the user should be really active and fast plus it should be extremely responsive both in user perception and actual behavior. These days no one really has time to work on slowly performing website as the speed of the site matters and the same is increasing with every feature that is being added. A web application minimizes the expected delays and as a result of which the ser remains on task without any problem. A recent research conducted by an organization revealed that faster web apps make more money and rank higher in search results.
These are few of the things that should be kept in mind while making a web application and companies should hire web app developers by choosing the right criteria and need.
