Which technology for business web application?

Question

Hello,

I am pondering on building a CRM for consulting business and am looking for best technology to build on. It will be web based with maybe a plugin that integrates with Outlook. What I don't want is to spend a lot of time doing HTML-fu and CSS-fu just to get basic grids, data entries and so on up. I don't mind picking up a new language. Preference goes to FLOSS projects. If it works with Python + 50 points :)

Projects on my mind:

• Google's GWT - great ecosystem. Pity that it is in old-fashioned Java, but there's Pyjamas too!
• Django - has all the nice widgets for web, but requires maintaining essentially a dual code base - backend language and front-end. Does not work with JS challenged browsers :(

Any suggestions how to quickly build and maintain web based business app are welcome.

Answer 1

Hi,

Have you taken a look at Visual WebGui?

From what I managed to understand it seems that Visual WebGui perfectly fits your needs. It is a platform that allows building web based business applications (such as CRM) without the CSS and JavaScript fuss of traditional web development. That is possible since Visual WebGui is based on desktop methodologies, so if you are a desktop developer (VB6, VB.NET) you wouldn't even need to learn any new languages or concepts in order to build your CRM.

You can check out our website for successful CRM showcases built with Visual WebGui. For more technical articles, codes and tutorials you can go to our Developers Section.