As opposed to web development, when a client buys a product or a car, this client needs to know the technology that embedded into that product. And in the same time the web development company denies from the client regarding the nature of that technology as well. My opinion that who ever want a web site should know the advantages and disadvantages of the technology that he uses.

I will try to explain briefly regarding the technologies web developer uses today, we can divide it into two major categories, on is server-side, and the other is client side. Both of them are different, but we can actually can make them work together in order to make a site to perform well.

Server side technologies, is the “main base” which means that the site is created on the server side. The data is processed, all the database connections and functions. The main advantage using that server side tech is actually to make sure that everybody will see the same information, for example if we will want to know what is the time , everybody will see the same time because only the server is responsible for that function. The major disadvantage is that every call to that site make the server process information, a lot of calls and the server will be busy or slow.

So what is the server tech can do more? PHP – PHP Hypertext Preprocessor for example we can create dynamic pages that change data by calling the database, and calling different functions by a different situation. Can handle forms that are being sent by the client. The PHP job is the get request from the client process that request into a data and send that data as a response. The PHP is an open source code so everybody can actually develop further mode and more.

ASP- Active Server Pages – also dynamic serer side pages, same thing from Microsoft most of the web development companies uses this tech today in order to develop sites. And the most recent and very good server side tech is the asp.net, the advantages are huge comparing to the old and classic tech, the two disadvantages in this case is that it’s considered to be slower as web sites, and expensive to develop.

So, after we examined the server side we move to the client side. The client side is actually your computer. And if I’ll be more specific it’s the browser you use, now you will ask.. But different computers use different browsers. You will be right. But some things the server side can’t do. Moving things on the screen. Making motions on screens such as cascading menus or cool galleries. In this case we use the power of the client’s browser.

A very well known and powerful tool is the JavaScript that its code can run on html pages. Another tool is the flash that uses graphic.

So after we examined the two major techs in the World Wide Web, next time we will want a web site, it is essential today to know about the techs that the web development company will use.

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