Inexperienced users routinely get confused between web development and web design, and that’s understandable because of the fine line separating them. Both functions are equally important to a successful website, so we’re going to unpack the terms for you to create a deeper understanding of each.
In the fast-paced world of the internet, trends come and go, but one thing remains constant: Developers relentlessly pursue new and improved tools to do their work better and faster, with fewer bugs. Developers depend on modern web development toolkits the same way carpenters or plumbers rely on what’s in their toolbags, and they tend to gravitate towards the newest ones in pursuit of more capability, better usability, and faster development cycles.
When you commission an artist to create a painting or sculpture, typically you own the end product when it’s finished, to do with as you like. The artist can’t come back a year later and take it back. If you have a custom-designed house built for you, it’s the same thing: You—not the builder—own the house.
Even before there was such a thing as a digital computer, science fiction authors and other dreamers imagined sentient machines that could see and understand what they saw. Just the “seeing” part—identifying objects in an image—has proven to be one of the thorniest problems in computing. However, with recent advances in machine learning, we are now a step closer to realizing that goal: Google has released its Google Photos Cloud Vision API for developers everywhere to use.
From an application-development standpoint, one of the shortcomings of HTML is the fact that it is, first and foremost, a markup language, not a programming language. Although HTML5, the latest version, lends itself more to interactivity than previous versions, it is still mostly about presentation and not so much about applications.
Perhaps you’ve decided your company needs a flashy mobile app or a slick web application. Or maybe you need something more mundane, such as a hardware driver for a device prototype. Whatever the case, you have contacted several contract developers and received software development quotes that vary widely in both price and detail.
