What is a Webmaster?
Learn the basics of making your site more than just text – be a webmaster! Being a webmaster means that you control everything about your site. You create your site and you add stuff to it all the time to keep it new and exciting. You want people to keep coming back to your website for more! We’re going to talk about a few things that you can do to make your site more inviting to visitors. You can have free chats on your site, have a link exchange to get the word out about your site, and even use some cool interactive stuff that makes your site look awesome! Also, check back for a time this month that you can chat with a professional webmaster – Bianca – from Girlstart.com!
A webmaster is the designation given to the person responsible for designing and maintaining the coding and proper functioning of a website. In the case of a personal website, the webmaster is most often the person who owns the domain. Small businesses often employ someone in-house to be the webmaster, or they might hire an independent contractor who works part-time on the project from his or her home or office. Large companies might contract a third party to handle their online presence. In these cases the webmaster is not responsible for content, only for design and function. In the early days of the Internet websites were designed from scratch using HyperText Markup Language (HTML). Today’s HTML editors and Web-creation interfaces makes it possible for anyone to be a “webmaster” with little or no knowledge of HTML. Point-and-click what you see is what you get (WYSIWYG) programs do all the coding while the user simply indicates what type of design he or she would like. Commercial sit
This is an excellent question and one that is too often missed by HR managers who are tasked with the job of hiring a web staff posthaste. More importantly, it is a question that is too often knocked to the end of the queue by webmasters themselves who are trying to learn a lifetime worth of technology in the period of a six month review. Yet it is exactly the question that must be answered first if you are to build anything of substance and permanence with your skills. Web mastering only begins with technology. Artistic and social activities take up the rest of the time. Only those who can understand this will be able to create web communities with long term viability. Building Websites The fact is that few people really understand what it takes to design, develop and manage a successful web site because the job has not been around for very long. Thus, hiring a “webmaster”, or knowing how to become a good webmaster can be like playing the lottery. People have no good standards to judg
