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Web App Development
Web Development (also known as Web Application Development, Web app Development or Web Portal Development) allows businesses and startups alike to develop software on the web.
Everything from sophisticated business automation platforms, to robust email clients, to complex ecommerce platforms leverage web development to provide powerful software to the world in real-time.
At Digital Inventum , web development forms a cornerstone of our business technology practice. We use technologies like Java, PHP, .NET & Python to build scalable, enterprise-grade software that stands up to rigorous use across a variety of verticals.
Web Development Process
- Connecting disparate sources of information.
- Organizing, collating & normalizing it for your databases.
- Creating the application engine that transforms the data.
- Deploying it on a scalable, secure, and reliable infrastructure.
- Making it accessible across browsers, client apps and mobile devices.
Does your software need to work remotely across multiple browsers, operating systems, computers, departments & locations?
Do you need to deploy new upgrades for your company or customers and can't afford to wait for "App Upgrades?" Not sure how one web technology differs from another? Interested in understanding the advantages of .NET, PHP, Python or Java?
Need to build web-based applications that connect to your on-premise data sources?
Web App Overview
Looking for Bespoke Web or Online Application Development? You’ve found the right place. Digital Inventum Consultants is an expert developer of online Web applications and database-driven websites. Introduction to Web Apps
Our experience has taught us that the majority of our customers' projects can be categorized into one of the following types of Website: Brochure sites, Rich Content sites, e-Commerce sites and Web applications. What is a Web Application? It’s a business system or application delivered over the Web. It might be an internal expenses application used only within a company (intranet); a reseller purchasing application used with partners (extranet); or an online system available to members of the public like an eBay or a holiday cottage search site. Deciding whether a website might better be called an “application” can be tricky – but in general if the site presents forms and stores data in a database – it’s a Web app.
Digital Inventum has all the skills required to deliver your online system:
- Having strong expertise with PHP My SQL APACHE – Linux Platform for faster web delivery.
- We have strong expertise with Microsoft IIS and ASP.NET – the leading Microsoft Platform for website delivery.
- We are experts in MS SQL Server, used at the server side to manage the database.
- We also have strong expertise in JavaScript and AngularJS – technologies necessary to deliver the interactivity required by website users.
- Hosting and Development Platforms for Web Apps
- Digital Inventum primarily uses Microsoft tools for custom web application development – which means we use Microsoft Server 2014, which includes Microsoft IIS / ASP.NET as the web-server. We generally use Microsoft SQL Server as the back-end database.
- We use Microsoft tools primarily because we believe they allow us to be more productive. We can write the system code using C#, which is a very modern and powerful language.
- The major alternative to Microsoft technologies is Linux. You may hear the acronym “LAMP” mentioned – this stands for “Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP”, and refers to a collection of technologies commonly used together on Linux-hosted web-applications. We appreciate that the Linux platform has some strong benefits – notably that components are mostly free – and we see good sites being developed using LAMP. But most of our customers still use MS products, and we’re happy with this choice.
- In truth, the vast majority of developers have strong expertise on only one platform – so very, very few people are really in a position to say “this platform is better”. And the right platform may well depend on exactly what sort of application is being developed.
Web Technology Overview
In the beginning, the web used HTML. HTML was originally a very simple way for people to write pages which included text, graphics – and links to other pages. The extreme simplicity of HTML powered its rapid adoption, and launched the Web.
HTML has since been massively extended, which has led to huge problems with browser compatibility which continue to cause web developers headaches on a day-to-day basis. The core problem is that HTML simply wasn’t designed for the purpose it is being used for – which means it doesn’t work that well.
In recent years, there has been a major push to find ways to develop “rich Internet applications” – i.e. websites which are significantly more interactive than plain-HTML sites, and provide users with more interesting and convenient ways to obtain information.
The following is a brief summary of the competing technologies for Rich Internet Application development:
AngularJS
Released by Google, AngularJS allows the modern web developer to create user interfaces using model-view-controller and model-view-view model architectures. This is achieved through the use of custom HTML tags, or directives, which are then rendered into plain HTML. AngularJS’ two-way data binding allows for the automatic synchronization of data between its model and view components, reducing the lines of code a developer may have to write. Digital Inventum has used AngularJS to great effect when developing bespoke web applications for its customers.
AJAX and JavaScript
JavaScript is the language used within browsers to make things happen on the user’s PC. JavaScript makes menus pop down, and automatically changes colors when you enter data. AJAX is a special technique in web development that allows web-pages to do things “in the background” – avoiding the need to refresh the whole page. AJAX and JavaScript are used extensively to implement sites like Google’s Gmail and Google Maps, and online supermarkets. AJAX however has some significant disadvantages – the development tools we have for AJAX programming are poor compared with client side tools, and AJAX often encounters significant browser-compatibility issues. Complex AJAX sites can require huge amounts of testing and fixing. There are solutions to some of these problems, but AJAX remains a quite expensive technology.
Web Application Technologies
Web Application Development can utilize a range of technologies, depending on the requirements of the particular application. These include: AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), ASP (Microsoft Web Server (IIS) Scripting language), ASP.NET (Microsoft's Web Application Framework - successor of ASP), ActionScript, CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), ColdFusion (Adobe's Web Application Framework), CGI, HTML5 (HyperText Markup Language), Java, JavaScript, JSP, Node.js, OSGI, Perl, PHP, PSGI, Python, Ruby - the list goes on.
Some of these are Client Side Scripting technologies (such as HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, Ajax), others are Server Side Scripting technologies (such as ASP, ASP.NET, Python etc.). The fact that Web applications are so much more interactive than standard websites means that it’s not possible to create them with just HTML; instead, they require additional ‘client-side’ technology including Java, JavaScript, AJAX, CSS, jQuery and HTML5.
In general, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and AJAX are used for the user-interface; HTML5 for an enhanced user experience; a Web-programming language such as ASP.NET or PHP to deliver bespoke functionality; and a database to reliably store all sorts of information including usage statistics, user/customer data and application-specific requirements. Digital Inventum can work with any of these technologies, depending on your needs. If you’re interested in the development technologies and techniques we use, take a look at our Web Software Development Technologies page - you’ll find unbiased information on Java, JavaScript, AJAX, AngularJS, HTML5, ASP.NET vs. PHP & Drupal, and Databases.
Digital Inventum ’s Web Application Development Services
Digital Inventum has been developing bespoke Web-based applications for many years and has the skills required to successfully deliver your online system.
Web Application Expertise
We have strong expertise with Microsoft IIS and ASP.NET – the leading Microsoft Platform for Website delivery. We are experts in MS SQL Server, used at the server side to manage the database. We also have strong expertise in JavaScript and AJAX – technologies necessary to deliver the interactivity required by Website users.
Web Application Hosting Platforms
Digital Inventum primarily uses Microsoft tools for Web application development, which include Microsoft IIS / ASP.NET as the Web-server and Microsoft SQL Server as the back-end database. We can write the system code using C#, which is a very modern and powerful language.
The major alternative to Microsoft technologies is Linux. You may hear the acronym “LAMP” mentioned – this stands for “Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP”, and refers to a collection of technologies commonly used together on Linux-hosted Web applications. We appreciate that the Linux platform has some strong benefits – notably that components are mostly free – and we see good sites being developed using LAMP. But most of our customers still use MS products, and we’re happy with this choice.
The Benefits of Using Web Applications
- Web applications provide business and customers with a huge range of benefits compared to non-Web based applications:
- By opting to launch your project as a Web application (as opposed to a desktop application), you immediately make it accessible to a mass audience - an audience that is simply defined as people with Internet access and a modern Internet browser.
- Web applications are much easier to update than their desktop counterparts. To update a Web application, the amendments only need to be made to one place: the server on which the Web application runs. To update a Desktop application, however, is a much more complicated task: patches need to be developed, tested and finally distributed to each and every one of the end users of the application?
- Relative to conventional websites, a Web application is more likely to score better on the basis of receiving return visitors. The logic is simple: a Web application is more interactive than a brochure site, so users are more likely to return to use it a second time and to check for updates.
- Unlike desktop applications which need to be installed on every user’s machine, Web applications are accessible by anyone with an Internet connection. In the same way as the Internet has revolutionized the way we shop, it’s also revolutionized the way we interact with computers.
- If it's possible to have your service or product run as a Web application rather than a desktop application, it makes sense to do so: the Web makes it cheaper and faster to reach a mass audience than the traditional method of developing, testing, packaging and distributing software to be installed on an individual user’s computer.
Product & Services Digital Learning Solutions
Digital Inventum offers various online learning courses for its clients across the world. We provide tailor-made courses keeping in mind the learning preferences of our target readers and how they can benefit from the course to increase their knowledge. Get high quality, contemporary and value for money courses with our advanced eLearning solutions to enhance your learning procedures.
Business Process Outsourcing
Business Process Outsourcing is the contracting of the business processes and accountabilities of the organization to third party services. Also known as back office outsourcing, it involves a third party to undertake consulting and perform internal business functions like human resources, finance and accounting and other customer-related services on behalf of the business to increase its flexibility and transform the business.
Enterprise Mobile Application Development
Digital Inventum – one of the leading enterprise mobility companies offers customized solutions for developing, testing, deploying and managing corporate software running on mobile devices. These software are managed by a mobile application development environment and back-end web services which are linked to your enterprise applications and databases for smooth execution.