- Custom Web Applications
Custom Web Development - eCommerce and Business Websites
Web programming facilitates interactive functionality between your website and the user. Web programming allows for database integration, e-commerce databases, a chat room, forums, and dynamic solutions so that you can keep the information on your web site up to date yourself, with a simple interface administration panel.
Finding the right team to handle your custom website development is no easy task when the market is saturated with low-cost options. So how do you know that you're getting the right balance of technical expertise and value?
Our web site developers have excellent web programming skills to develop solutions for any size of business and to fit almost any budget. Our development team has the experience and the technical expertise to reduce complex processes, into simple functional interface solutions, which will save you time and give a ROI from day one.
Contact us now to see how we can help you.
What is web development?
Web development is a broad term for any activity to develop a web site for the World Wide Web or an internet. This can include web design, shopping cart solutions, client-side/server-side scripting and web server configuration. However, among web professionals, "web development" usually refers only to the non-design aspects of building web sites, e.g. writing markup and coding. Web development can range from developing the simplest static single page of plain text to the most complex web-based internet applications, electronic businesses, or social network services.
What is difference between a static website and a database driven interactive website? What are static and dynamic websites?
Static websites are mostly informational website for start ups or for those businesses, where the business nature does not make it compulsory for the business owners to setup an interactive website. Those businesses where the target audience is internet savvy and we wish to interact with them via our business website, we develop interactive websites with database to store the business information and all other data published on the website.
Following chart shows the nature of content and features, most of the static and dynamic websites have:
| Details | Static Website | Dynamic Website |
|---|---|---|
| Company information | Yes | Yes |
| Number of web pages | Mostly less than 20 | Mostly More than 10 |
| Contact forms | Yes | Yes |
| Contacts/Lead Management System | No | Yes |
| Forums | No | Yes |
| User registration | No | Yes |
| Search with in website content | No | Yes |
| Content Management System | No | Yes |
| Online shop? | No | Yes |
| Facility to interact with other fellow users on the website? |
Yes – using some 3rd party service |
Yes |
Advantages of static websites
- Faster and cheaper to develop
- Cheaper to host
Disadvantages of static websites
- Webmasters need to have knowledge of HTML/CSS/Photoshop etc to keep their websites updated or they need to hire a website design agency for maintenance of their website
- Static websites are not interactive - website visitors can not search within your website or interact with website owners
Dynamic/Interactive web sites on the other hand can cost you more initially, but the advantages are multiple. Foremost advantage is, website owners can update Dynamic websites with little or no knowledge of HTML/CSS or any design tool and they can add new content to the site with ease. For example, news and events could be posted to the site through a simple browser interface. Most important reason for developing Dynamic websites is to make a website interactive with end objective of giving better and pleasant experience to the website visitors. Some examples of interactive website features: content management system(CMS), e-commerce system, bulletin / discussion boards, search information based on specific criteria, ability for users to upload files and documents etc.
Advantages of dynamic websites
- Much more interactive and intelligent website
- Easier to add and update content on the website
- Where you need to collect and save your website visitors/users data in a database, you can do it by dynamic websites only or you need to use 3rd party services to save and keep your clients and subscribers data.
Disadvantages of dynamic websites
- Compared to development cost of static websites, dynamic websites costs more
- Design/Development costs more
- Hosting costs a little more
A Well-Rounded Team
When you work with us, you get the benefit of well rounded team. Beyond having qualified and experienced web developers, ALIF Technologies has professional interface designers, usability engineers, quality assurance professionals, all there to make sure your application is not only well-scripted, but well-structured from top to bottom. In case your web work is more about designing than development, you need not go anywhere else as we are also known as the ‘best web design company’ amongst our clients.
Last but not the least - we have dedicated client servicing team which is available to you when you need them, they are available almost 12-14 hours a day at your service.
