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Your dad could sell a ketchup popsicle to a woman in white gloves.
           -Richard, Tommy Boy

Background and Key Benefits of a Collaborative Website

Anyone Can Use and Contribute to It
Just a few years ago, we thought of a website as a collection of hand-created HTML files containing static information that, like text in a book, was very difficult to change once it was written. Editing and maintaining those HTML files was a specialized job that only one or two people in an organization could do. Things weren't helped any by the fact that those specialists were often rather removed from their organization's core business.

A collaborative website, on the other hand, has pages that are composed on demand (by programs running on the web server) according to context: Who is requesting this page? What do we know about them? What are they looking for? What are they allowed to see, etc?

These dynamic pages are not just viewed, but used like a regular computer application. Their content (like Q-and-A forums, shared files, community calendar events, and document libraries) is created, modified, and viewed through a web interface.

It Does Things We Once Bought Special Software For
Collaborative web sites offer their users the power of traditional software applications with the portability and low overhead of web pages. Web applications provide their users with the best of both worlds.

A Web Browser Is The Only Program You Need
The beauty of web applications is that you don't need to install, maintain or upgrade new software or special hardware to use them. They're accessed with a web browser only. As long as your users have Internet Explorer or Netscape, they have full and equal access to your web application.

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