What's an "custom job application site"?
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whatever man... all sarcasm aside, answering question for somebody who may not know....
A custom app site is where a website is just a front end to a larger program written for this exact project, not just wordpress or joomla, etc....
it can be like an iceberg, i.e. what you see is only the tip of something possibly huge and dangerous to passing ships of project managers who don't know what can go wrong.... i.e. unpredictable deadlines, spec changes,etc...
Ebay is a custom application site, so is facebook, so are hundreds of e-commerce sites.... and so are lots of corporate debacles where the budget and deadlines ran amok because different people had different ideas and management didn't make smart decisions, etc...
A custom application site is like the opposite of wordpress or joomla, it's not prebuilt, it's like building a house from scratch vs a bunch of pre-fab parts. you need to have an architect, lots of stuff is hidden. a wordpress site is like an interior decorating job in comparison.
Some custom app sites may be built using frameworks, as a way to lessen the chaos risk and start with a bit of a prebuilt component set, rubyOnRails, Django and codeIgniter are some of these.