North Carolina Web Applications: Web 2.0 - Web Based Applications

Websites have undergone many changes over the years. From simple text based content to significantly more advanced with Scripted and “Flash®” based content. No matter how sophisticated the presentation of the website was, for many years these sites were only one way – From you to your customer.

The trend of the past few years is toward database driven websites. These sites offer many advantages such as customer registration and maintaining customer data. Large companies and even governmental organizations have all headed in this direction.

Other advantages of these types of websites are that they can be managed by someone within the organization without the need of a webmaster once the site has been properly setup. This can save a lot of money formerly paid to the webmaster for changes to the website. Another effect is that the changes take place immediately or, even more importantly; these changes can take show up and/or go away on the desired date or dates. Bi-directional communication between you and your customer is just one significant advantage of web based applications over basic websites.