What is a Webmaster?
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 judge what they need to know or how to make sense of qualifications. Well, one good way to define something is to break that thing down into concrete understandable pieces. That’s the approach we will use here. In the case of defining a webmaster, we must isolate the unique tasks and skills of the process of web mastering. Only then can we come to a reasonable and workable definition. So, let me modify the question to, “What tasks must be accomplished in the design, development, and management of a successful web site?” I think by answering this larger question, the smaller question of the term “webmaster” will be clarified. As I see it, there are five tasks that must be accomplished at any s
