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The role of the Webmaster requires knowledge in several different areas.

As a webmaster, you are responsible for the information base of a particular site or organization. Webmaster duties typically will include editorial responsibility for the content, quality and style of the site, in collaboration with the area authors on the team. This will include finding, creating and installing tools to create web content and check consistency; development and enforcement of the house style, including liaison with graphic artists; and the development of interactive web applications.

Typical areas of responsibility for a Webmaster include:

* HTML Authoring. Including an understanding of HTML 2.0, 3.2, 4, Dynamic HTML, and other extensions; e.g. tables, frames, server-push/client-pull, server-side includes, etc., as well as an appreciation for browser compatibility issues.

* CGI Scripting. Typically including (but not necessarily limited to) Perl, C and UNIX shell scripts.

* Basic Graphic Design Capability. Able to produce attractive Web pages that are effective within the limitations of the delivery medium.

* Internet Awareness. A general appreciation for the issues concerning the Internet and World Wide Web (download time/bandwidth, content-driven pages, graphics vs text, browser compatibility - colors, resolution, etc).

* General UNIX and PC (MS-Windows) Awareness.

* Basic TCP/IP and Networking (e.g. Service ports, Name Servers, Email, USENET, HTTP, FTP, etc).

* Graphic Design Skills. A knowledge of graphics applications and techniques (e.g. Photoshop, Fractal Painter, 3D Modelling) and the ability to apply these in effective ways within the constraints imposed by the nature of the Internet.

* Customer Awareness. The ability to manage a relationship with a customer and work within specified requirements.

* WWW Server Configuration (e.g. NCSA, CERN, Apache, Netscape Commercial Server - including NSAPI)

Hello

Webmaster is responsible for many functions simultaneously. In a larger company, a webmaster is hired on account of their sound technical noises and programming skills and who has specialized in a destined area of expertise.

There will be a team of webmasters who take over the overall corporate scheme design and policies and work with people who provide the consort with its network infrastructure and supervise the design of the company’s website. There will be additional scheme developers whose duties are to care and develop the scheme content. All these various departments of webmasters inter-relate the creation of a website, content and organization, for the corporation’s intranet.


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Maintaining a website is another key area that your webmaster should be in charge of, which means keeping everything ship shape. If there is a broken link, fix it. If there are spam emails coming from the site, work on it. If there are trouble makers posting nonsense on the forum, ban them.

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As a webmaster, you are responsible for the information base of a particular site or organization. Webmaster duties typically will include editorial responsibility for the content, quality and style of the site, in collaboration with the area authors on the team. This will include finding, creating and installing tools to create web content and check consistency; development and enforcement of the house style, including liaison with graphic artists; and the development of interactive web applications.

Typical areas of responsibility for a Webmaster include:

* HTML Authoring. Including an understanding of HTML 2.0, 3.2, 4, Dynamic HTML, and other extensions; e.g. tables, frames, server-push/client-pull, server-side includes, etc., as well as an appreciation for browser compatibility issues.

* CGI Scripting. Typically including (but not necessarily limited to) Perl, C and UNIX shell scripts.

* Basic Graphic Design Capability. Able to produce attractive Web pages that are effective within the limitations of the delivery medium.

Thanks