I have a friend who works in financing. His company wants a website for the company. He is really confused about a web site and a web app, and I don't really understand them enough to explain. Can you all give me some clear explanation about it?
What is the different between web site and web application?
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Web site is the most generic term for something visible to people using a web browser and accessible via a URL. This can be just a collection of static HTML files and images, but nowadays that is pretty rare.A Web application is a web site with (more or less complex) functionality behind it, i.e. what the user sees is generated by some sort of program, which also reacts to user actions, i.e. the user can do more than just click on links.Arguably, web application implies also that the site's does something more complex than just displaying information with some added convenience features (such as search, comments or user ratings), i.e. some people might say that a web site based on a CMS such as Wordpress isn't really a web application. But the terms are somewhat fluid.