{"id":7027,"date":"2022-05-24T11:52:38","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T06:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itechindia.co\/us\/?p=7027"},"modified":"2025-09-24T06:39:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T06:39:32","slug":"blog-web-development-vs-software-development-what-businesses-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itechindia.co\/us\/blog\/difference-between-web-development-and-software-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Web Development vs Software Development: What Businesses Need to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\"Difference<\/center>

Bill Gates once famously said, \u201cIf your business is not on the internet then your business will be out of business\u201d<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Just about every business, big or small, has come to this realization. However, here is a catch: when entrepreneurs or SMEs want to develop a tech solution for their organization, they get confused at times about whether they need a software development company or a web development company.<\/p>

This confusion is because of the nature of things in our connected world. Almost all products and services are available on the internet. In fact, most software programs have web applications that use the internet for easy access. However, web development and software development are two different beasts and serve different technology needs.<\/p>

The difference between software development and web app development\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>

Both of them run on specific code and both use the internet. But the commonality stops here. In brief, the defining difference between the two is as below:<\/p>

Software development<\/strong><\/a> is the process of creating complex software programs for desktop or mobile devices. These solutions are usually developed using specific programming languages and are usually aimed at business needs.<\/p>

Web development, <\/strong>on the other hand, is the coding involved in creating user-facing interfaces, specifically websites, that are accessed on the internet.<\/p>

There is more to it than this and so let\u2019s dive deep.<\/p>

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What is web development and when do you need it?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>

Web development can be as simple as developing a static business website or as complex as developing a gaming portal or an eCommerce platform. Essentially web development involves building an interlinked series of webpages<\/strong> that are served under a single domain name and can be globally accessed on the internet.<\/p>

While there are UI (User interface) and UX (user experience) designers involved in designing the interface, the web developers are usually concerned with coding and not designing. There are two components in web development – the client side and the server side.<\/p>