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🌐 Website

Definition: A website is a collection of static or dynamic pages accessible via the internet through a domain name.
Purpose: Usually to present information (company profile, blog, portfolio, e‑commerce catalog).
Features:
- Content (text, images, video).
- Navigation (menus, links).
- Design (layout, colors, fonts).
- Hosting + domain.
Example: A company homepage with “About Us,” “Products,” and “Contact” pages.

⚙️ Web Application

Definition: A web application is a software program that runs in a browser, offering interactive functionality beyond static pages.
Purpose: To perform tasks or provide services (social media, online banking, SaaS tools).
Features:
- User accounts and authentication.
- Databases for storing and retrieving data.
- Dynamic interactions (real‑time updates, forms, dashboards).
- Often behaves like desktop/mobile apps but runs in the browser.
Example: Gmail, Facebook, Google Docs.

💻 Web Development

Web development is the process of building and maintaining websites and web apps. It has two main layers:

1. Front‑End Development (Client Side)

Focus: What users see and interact with.
Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript (+ frameworks like React, Vue, Angular).
Concerned with UI/UX design, responsiveness, accessibility.

2. Back‑End Development (Server Side)

Focus: Logic, databases, and server communication.
Technologies: PHP, Python (Django/Flask), Node.js, Ruby on Rails, Java, .NET.
Concerned with data storage, authentication, APIs, security.

3. Full‑Stack Development

Combines both front‑end and back‑end skills.
Example: A developer who builds the user interface and the server logic.

🔗 Website vs. Web App

Website: Primarily informational, static or lightly dynamic.
Web App: Highly interactive, behaves like software, requires back‑end logic and databases.
Overlap: Many modern websites include web app features (e.g., online stores with shopping carts, user accounts, and payment systems).

“A website is an online collection of pages for presenting information, while a web application is interactive software running in the browser; web development is the structured process of building both, across front‑end and back‑end layers.”