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Web development terms
This is what the terms website, homepage and web application mean
What exactly is a homepage? Is it the same as a website?
If you’re wondering why there are so many terms for what may be the same thing, you’re not alone, but you’ve come to the right place:
This article compares the terms and shows what the terms website, homepage and web application mean.
The homepage: an online presence
The digital corporate presence of an organization or company is called a homepage. In addition, some private individuals operate such a web presence. A homepage consists of several web pages. However, the word website without an e is English for the web presence as a whole. Every web presence has a home page and some people call this first “home page” their homepage.
Other main components of a website are:
- Contact page
- Privacy policy
- Imprint
- About us page
- Presentation of services and areas of activity
- Subpage showing advantages of the provider
A company presence on the Internet is advertising – as is the case with the currently displayed website “trinidat.de“. As a rule, a homepage can be used anonymously, i.e. without user registration.
Web application
In contrast to the web presence, which is primarily to be viewed passively, one becomes active in a web application. It is a software to support workflows in the context of digitalization. Therefore, it consists of:
- the input and processing of data,
- the output and visual preparation of data,
- the evaluation of data in reports and
- the possibility of import and export.
To use a web application, you usually need to authenticate, that is, log in with a username and password. Some web applications can be used anonymously and then offer a reduced scope of services. Examples of web applications created by the trinidat are Sunny Design and the Item Motion Designer
Possible occasions to have a web application developed are:
- Modernization of an old software application: have a desktop application rebuilt to take advantage of web applications
- Need for a business process optimization application used primarily by employees
- The company’s customers and prospects should use a digital product, such as a web store, design software, or configurator
For the definition of a web page
When we talk about a web page, we are talking about a single page. This is part of a web application or a home page. An example is the page with this wiki article that you are viewing. Each web page has a specific URL, which is the address that is displayed in the corresponding browser field. On a web page, there can be text, images, and occasionally active content (such as animations or audio files). A web page consists of HTML code. This is written by the web developer or web editing software and defines how the elements of a web page are to be displayed and arranged.
To use a home page or web application, you need:
- a device: PC, notebook, tablet, or smartphone,
- a web browser,
- the URL of a web page (e.g. home page of a homepage) and
- perhaps the login credentials, if it is a protected website.
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