A
professional webmaster is a
manager with technical skills
and is a role that requires a
bit of self motivation as well
as the skill set which isn't
common to find a real master of
craft with webmasters. We only
deal with real webmasters and
with 25 years experience it only
takes us minutes to qualify
experience. We will easily
identify inexperienced
webmasters but guide them to
determine whether they have the
potential. Webmasters are
responsible for maintaining
servers and keeping
websites online with an ease of
use, look great and kept up to
date. A further role is the
promotion and SEO of a website
and it's products and services.
Webmasters although generally
work alone they should be able
to still work in a team
environment and keep up business
relations as although the
webmaster being the manager they
still need to collaborate with
fellow promoters, marketers,
designers. content creators such
as writes and photographers
there is a lot to consider for
the role of a webmaster and need
to be a master of trade. A great
webmaster will consider every
one of these roles to include
them and allow for marketing in
the creation of the actual
content.
Webmaster Responsibilities
include
Negotiating with customer on
realistic goals and discussing
needs and real wold limitations
as many get their idea from tv
commercials. Discussing with
customer real possibilities not
ideas that cannot be executed
due to current technology future
fantasies and outlay on
investment. Finding their real
needs and requirements
suggesting pages they never
thought about such as mapping
eg: site maps, geo location and
creating the video content
they dream about by determining
real requirements.
Building development and layout
requirement and an understanding
of art as customers want to
stand out design plays a crucial
role in what they consider
visually aesthetic and user
friendly designs and navigation
as well as engaging links to
keep customer active on site.
Webmasters as managers are
coordinating with content
providers, marketers graphic
artists, other managers and site
owners. Webmasters are expected
to keep up with operating
systems and system updates to
ensure security is always at
peak protection as customer data
protection is a priority
as effect all losing clients is
not good for business so
webmasters need to be on top of
all aspects of maintaining
servers including monitoring and
analyzing site and server
performances as well as browser
issues surfing sites in all
browsers and resolutions.
Webmaster are expected to be
able to update content and
review SEO and improve catering
to industry as well as
addressing and responding to
user comments and complaints.
Webmaster Requirements, These
are the basic webmaster
requirements but i had no
qualification in the nineties as
there wasn't anyone teaching and
back then every user had a much
higher skill set that is
required today to get around on
internet connecting to
servers. Preferred but not
essential qualifications. A
degree in computer science or
marketing. A knowledge of
program languages and operating
systems and management
Marketing and SEO including
content creation. A good
knowledge of security and
checking manually for updates
for everything. Good networking
ability to work with others to
achieve tasks and goals.
Reliable self starter that
requires little oversight with
an eye for detail. Good
communication with ability to
respond take criticism and just
offer fast solving problem
issues.
