Website developer: Web application

Abstract

Unlike content-centric websites, web applications serve the specific tasks of its users. The motivations for using a web application is almost always explicit, precise, and user specific. Whereas content-centric websites provide general services to its users. A web application behaves like traditional software but the user doesn't have to install anything. It is a program whose user interface runs entirely from within a browser. That makes it incredibly portable and easily accessible from anywhere one has access to the Internet. In this project a web application was developed which helps its users create and host their websites. WD (Website Developer) is a user-friendly program that guides its users in a step-by-step process. Its users are not required to have any knowledge of HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) or any other web authoring tools. WD uses JSP (Java Server Pages) and HTML as its front end, Java for processing, and the data is stored in MySQL database in the back end. Apache Tomcat is used as the web server.