Free & Open Source Software (FOSS) in Website Designing
Amit Sinha1, Dharmesh Kumar Niranjan2, Alka Singh3
1Amit Sinha*, Department of IT, ABES Engineering College, Ghaziabad, India.
2Dharmesh Kumar Niranjan, Department of CSE, Vishveshwarya Group of Institutions, Gr. Noida, India.
3Alka Singh, Department of IT, Noida Institute of Engineering & Technology. Gr. Noida, India.
Manuscript received on September 18, 2019. | Revised Manuscript received on October 20, 2019. | Manuscript published on October 30, 2019. | PP: 50-53 | Volume-9 Issue-1, October 2019 | Retrieval Number: A1028109119/2019©BEIESP | DOI: 10.35940/ijeat.A1028.109119
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Abstract: People want website to be fast, user-friendly, secure & free to use. Web sites have become a critical part of business, and the tools to create and deploy Web sites are becoming more flexible and easier to use. This paper talks about the role of FOSS in Website Designing. FOSS proves to be a boon for website developers in the way that they are secure, robust and free to use & modify. The open source tools available in the market facilitate the tool -box of a website developer. The use of FOSS increases the productivity, provide a secure Environment & also save a website developer of getting screwed under the copyright act. This paper talks about the technologies which FOSS world currently offers to the website developers and also the revolution which is awaiting to flourish the market. It also incorporates a study of the recent developments & the way market is becoming more dependent on FOSS. For example, PHP is the basic element of the most famous social networking website today, the Facebook. Also, GMAIL is entirely based on the open source language, Python.
Keywords: Free & Open Source Software, Website Designing, Open Source, GNU Public License.