Does Your Business Need a Website or a Web Application?
A website helps people discover your business. A web application helps them do something with it. Here’s how to decide which one you need.
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Useful thinking on websites, software, and the everyday processes they support.
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A website helps people discover your business. A web application helps them do something with it. Here’s how to decide which one you need.
Start with a repetitive task your team already understands. A focused automation project is easier to review and maintain.
Compare website proposals by scope, content, ownership, launch work, and recurring costs—not just the final price.
Set up a remote website project with clear overlap hours, written decisions, review environments, ownership, and handover.
Connect payments to order states, verified notifications, retries, and reconciliation before treating checkout as finished.
Define the boundaries, access rules, and evidence needed for a useful web security review before testing begins.
Choose a progressive web app or native app by testing required device features, offline behavior, distribution, and maintenance.
Read a mobile performance report by its loading and responsiveness metrics, then verify changes without sacrificing useful website behavior.
Protect useful URLs during a website rebuild with a redirect map, crawl checks, and a deliberate launch verification process.
Design a lead handoff that handles retries, duplicate submissions, assignment, and delivery failures without losing inquiries.
Define stock movements, transfers, reservations, and reconciliation before building an inventory dashboard for multiple branches.
Plan availability, time zones, capacity, cancellations, and confirmation rules before adding online booking to your website.
Written for people planning, running, and improving digital products. Start with a question that matters to your business.
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