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.