Rose Dewar

Web App development

Service Overview

The idea of web apps is to reduce effort and errors, save important data automatically, and make a complicated system easy to use - and set up.

So, for example, a user-friendly website form is used to gather information from the customer - eg for a gift voucher purchase - and then that information is saved in the database automatically by the system (no filing required!). Once the data is saved, it can be re-used - for example, the next time the customer makes a purchase it will save them having to re-type everything. Alternatively the saved data can be used to send the customer a confirmation or a reminder email.

The customer's purchase information can be used to automatically send them to a payment system such as Paypal or Worldpay, and once they've paid, send them back to your website. All without any intervention from you, the seller/merchant. So you can make money while you sleep!

For the website owner, most web apps have a management interface where you log in and add products, prices, dates etc to 'prime' the website, and view reports, eg orders by month. But the beauty is, once the information is there, it can be re-used in a display 'template' without you having to re-type the same details endlessly.

Generally, web apps are web forms or dynamic pages which link to a database and display information depending on what the customer asks for. Some examples are: a timetable by month, a staff list, product sales pages or a booking app. See more in my 'Portfolio' above.

The technical bit: I use scripting languages including Coldfusion/Railo/Lucee or ASP (VBscript) along with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript/jQuery. For existing website systems written in PHP or other web languages, I can modify or adapt the app to your current needs. I mostly use MySQL databases but also have experience with Microsoft Access and SQL Server. For payments, I can integrate a shopping/sales page with a payment system such as PayPal or WorldPay.