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Web Development &
Web ApplicationS Development

We aspire to be good at both the pretty, and the technical. Today's Web applications allow for a myriad of tasks to be performed, all through the everyday Web browser.

Large companies such as Google and Microsoft are a testament to the rapidly increasing versatility offered by Web applications, with word processors, email management, and even graphics manipulation applications, being developed and released to the public daily.

Though we are not (yet) at the size of the above-mentioned companies, we try our best to stay at the forefront of the ever-changing Web development scene. From complex database-driven record management to behind the scenes graphics manipulation, we are bound to have a solution to suit your needs, and the experience and technical expertise to effectively implement it.

How Web Applications Development Works

Web development is the coding that goes on behind the scenes, allowing for complex tasks to be performed without the user's knowledge. HTML and CSS only allow for the structuring and presentation of information respectively. In order to do anything more complicated, you need to use a server-side language that is able to perform the calculations and operations necessary, the base of web applications. Server side languages also increase security due to the fact that the user has no influence on what goes on.

Examples of server-side languages are PHP, Python, ASP.NET, and Ruby on Rails. We specialise in PHP, the most popular of the server-side Web applications development languages.

What Can Web Development Do For You?

Backend Web development can do a multitude of things, some of which being:

• Form creation and the saving of form-related data.
• Sending emails.
• Management of data that is saved to, and retrieved from, some form of data source - be it a database, XML document, or simple text file.
• Interfacing with other Web sites, and the sharing of information using methods such as RSS feeds.
• Image manipulation.
• Report generation.
• Security measures, and the separation of data from those who need not view or access it, often based on roles and system privileges.

Web development can also involve the integration of some form of front-end language to increase productability and reduce the pains of using the system by making it more intuitive, and appealing to the eye - we accomplish this using Javascript.

What Tools Do We Use?

We at Flint use the latest in PHP and Javascript frameworks to quickly and efficiently create applications that cover a wide variety of interests:

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  CakePHP is a PHP framework used for large-scale, usually enterprise, applications. It allows us to create large Web sites and applications with great ease, and at the same time provides comprehensive extendibility.
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  CodeIgiter is a PHP framework used for smaller scale applications and Web sites, allowing for fast, efficient, quickly implementable solutions.
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  jQuery is a javascript framework used to quickly and easily add animations and effects, and to perform complex frontend tasks using Javascript in much less time than would normally be the case.