How A Norfolk Web Development Company Sees The Future Of The Web
I work alongside a Norfolk web development company, and have certainly seen some changes over the past decade or two. It seemed that for a long time the main thing Norfolk was known for was its chickens! But today, we see a world that has changed dramatically, right before our eyes. Perhaps you might recall the early, tentative days of the world wide web, the plain grey web pages full of text, perhaps occasionally interspersed with a small picture?
Gone are those simple days, and today we can enjoy an online experience which is seamlessly integrated with our offline experience. For many years it has seemed that the world wide web has been moving inexorably towards creating a more dynamic environment, one which offers greater diversity, greater choice and more opportunities for interaction. As consumers we have become ever more demanding, wanting pages to load quicker, work faster, provide more information, tailor results to our specific requirements and handle our requests smoothly and flawlessly.
Technology has been keeping pace, and taking web developers further and further into a world which seems strangely familiar. We've started talking about programming, object oriented design, classes, routines and procedures - all of which seems more like the world of computer programming. This is the way the web has been moving - from a collection of uncomfortably aligned programming languages to an integrated solution called ASP.Net which encompasses all of our offline expectations and manages to handle them online with ease.
More often than not you use software which interacts with the web in any case. Maybe you're not always aware of this, but perhaps if you have Microsoft Office you've browsed the help files or looked for a template? In both of those cases, as with many other software products, you're probably retrieving updated information and facilities from the internet. Our offline software has been quietly reaching out to the web, and now we see the web reaching back.
The Norfolk web development company I work alongside is almost certainly not alone in seeing this reaching out, and it seems that we are very much experiencing a rebirth - a world wide web which has successfully partnered up with our online resources and experiences. There is much talk about Web 2.0 and reinventing the web, but it's already happened; it's been happening for years right under our noses, and now we can see the benefits of this online/offline partnership.
The internet has often seemed to many people an extra resource, an additional tool, and even a separate option altogether. Yet this is to ignore many of the benefits that internet technology has brought us. It's all too easy to mention the word 'internet' and the phrase 'world wide web' and see them as being one and the same: they are not.
The internet is the technology which allows computers and computer based technology to communicate, interact and share data across the world. One of the ways in which this internet technology is used is to generate online documents which people can edit and view - and this collection of shared data is known as the world wide web. But internet technology is capable of a great deal more, and it has quietly been powering software and business utilities for some time.
It's easy to assume that broadband has been the major factor in web technology development, but as a Norfolk web development company we have seen both those with, and those without the super fast broadband take advantage of the web. There's no denying that having faster access, and more reliable access, is a huge advantage. But it's a little like saying that the shopping centre in town is only really useful for those who can hook onto the motorway and get there quicker. It's what you use it for, rather than how quickly you use it which matters most.
I'm not denying that speed is important, and the ideal solution is to have both high speed access and effective, dynamic internet technology powered by an effective programming language. But let's not dwell only on speed - let's think about what the point of getting there quickly is, and then work out why it's worth the journey at all. It's not just my Norfolk web development company that's seeing the changes - it's a global revolution. Did I say revolution? No - it's more of an evolution. The world wide web and internet technology is evolving, and right now is when web development companies, software engineers and business solutions developers can start to see the way forward, the possibilities in fusing the benefits of online technology and offline convenience. Web 2.0 is just the beginning.
Jonathan Tabard is a online software solutions expert, who works with Norfolk web development company BlueHat.co.uk, and as a web developer Norwich has his full recommendation!
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