Our continuing discussion of what is a webmaster
Wednesday August 13, 2008
This month I've received 5 new opinions about what a Webmaster is. Do you agree? Disagree? Fill out the "What is a Webmaster" survey. What do you think a Webmaster is? What do you use as your job title? Most people who read this site don't like the title "webmistress", but beyond that there isn't a lot of consensus. The following comments are the latest I've received, but you can read all of them in What is a Webmaster 4 - Reader Comments.
- "for many employers, [a webmaster] is ... one person who designs, develops, ands manages an entire website from A to Z" - Lindsey
- "A webmaster is a gardener." - Melodie
- "A webmaster is a well-rounded jack-of-all-web. He or she has to be!" - Alexis
- "The Webmaster is the person who gets shouted at by the CEO on Monday morning" - Nick
- "web master work include web design + website optimization, web promotion, track website record and maintain the particular site completly." - santosh
What is a Webmaster 4 - Reader Comments
Comments
I have to agree with the above comments. In my own words a web master is one who manages all aspects of a web site including but not limited to design, development, and maintenance.
Back in 1999, I was working in an administrative department of a large company, and it was decided we needed a departmental web page within the company’s site. Since I was the only one who had done any site designing, I was elected to create the site from start to finish.
I asked reasonably intelligent questions about what kind of content we wanted and how we wanted to organize it, and then asked for suggestions for key words - a concept none of them had ever heard of. After I was done, the dept. head then asked who was going to be listed on the page as the webmaster. A vote was taken, and another woman, who knew nothing about web design at all, was elected.
I was dumbfounded, to say the least.