You're probably asking what the difference is between web design and web development. Basically web development is super charged web design. Web development takes web design to a whole new level. We're talking dynamic web pages. Pages that change on request to whatever form it is programmed to do.

How is this done? Well its rather complicated but with server side coding behind each dynamic page the possibilities are endless. Desktop applications are now going online with the same capabilities. You can log unto your Yahoo messenger or AIM right from a website, and chat right from the website! People can go online and buy products from companies that are halfway across the world. You can organize your life with online versions of Outlook style applications and you can even open and edit Word and Excel documents right on the web. It really never ends.

These kind of websites can also be called web applications. They literally are applications that run on the web, available to anyone that has access to the Internet. So why would someone want to go with a web application when they can go with just a website?

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