One of the most beneficial features in the WSI E-Fusion platform is its capability to create custom web apps. Most people are unfamiliar with web apps in eFusion and even regular users sometimes shy away from using them though, although I am completely unaware as to why.
Essentially a ‘web app’ is nothing more than a completely custom module or component (some of which cost hundreds of dollars on other website platforms). Maybe your website needs a custom car search module or hotel finder. Well, rather than trying to hunt down a pre-programmed module on an unfriendly website platform, a web app can be created in literally minutes.
A web app eliminates the need for database programming and puts you totally in control. For instance looking at the screen shot here you can see that to create a web app you simply need to enter a name, choose any ‘front end’ options that would allow users on your website to create web app items and simply click next.
This next screen lets you create any type of ‘field’ you can think of to be in your web app: Drop downs, radio buttons, check boxes, lists, etc.
The last thing to do is to create the ‘template’ in which the web app is displayed. Maybe you want your description on the left, your image on the right, and check boxes below that. Easy enough with the WYZYZWYG or simple HTML/CSS. Take a look at GoAccommodations which has built their entire hotel search out of Web Apps without the need to pay a single programmer. http://www.goaccommodation.com.au/
Web Apps also have a completely customizable front end search for your users to find exactly what they are looking for. Web apps can even make simple things easier, for instance our testimonial page is a simple web app with two fields: 1 for the testimonial and 1 for the Client and location. Rather than manually updating an HTML page every time we do great work and get a testimonial, we simply fill in 2 fields and our page is updated dynamically and formatted by the Web Apps template.
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