With the development of the Internet, a huge number of new professions have appeared in our lives. They are gaining popularity every day. Whether this is good or bad is debatable. But you need to know that a webmaster is not a lazy person at a computer, but a creative and talented person.
Profession
In general, it is not easy to determine the scope of this speci alty. As the name implies, this profession deals with the development of websites. Also, such people can work with corporate applications for the Internet.
But this is only the main position of the webmaster. In addition, it can combine other professions, depending on the size of the team. For example, sometimes he designs or typesets web pages. Can do some programming or system administrator work.
Sometimes a webmaster has to moderate the site, work as a content manager. He can become a tech support employee. Recently, a webmaster is also an SEO specialist. As a result, from a simple resource developer, we have growna multifunctional employee who can help at once at several stages of creating a site.
Development
The concept itself already has its own history. Naturally, it did not appear from the ceiling. It was first mentioned by the famous Timothy John Berners-Lee. This is the person to whom we owe the Internet and what began to appear later.
He talked about the webmaster in one interesting document. The Online Hypertext Style Guide appeared in 1992. In one of the chapters of this document, the scientist gives some recommendations. In them, he advises creating a "webmaster mail alias". This invention should help those who have problems with the server.
Ultimately, people had to use a single mailing address that had the advantage of being independent of the name of the person doing the web development. Thus, it was recommended to use this word for all private webmasters.
Versatility
Such versatility of this profession is not accidental. The fact is that when the Internet began to develop in the early 90s of the last century, websites began to appear. The general accessibility of the Web allowed anyone who was not too lazy to create their own resource. But it so happened that the authors themselves became such creators.
So, one person was responsible for the development, moderation, content, support, technical component and much more. These creators became known as webmasters. There were no courses then, and people had to support their offspring by trial and error.
And here is the speci altraining in this profession appeared already when the growth of the network and commercialization became more active. So began to appear special requirements for sites. All this led to the fact that it was not enough to be self-taught. It was necessary to follow certain algorithms. This is what they began to teach in webmaster courses.
Dubious form
Continuing the theme of this profession, let's tell one interesting fact. As we know, in Russian there is no female form of the name of the profession. Sometimes, using a speci alty in a similar spirit, it takes on a negative connotation.
But in English there is a word webmistress. That is a woman doing web development. The word turns out to be quite strange, and in fact it is very rarely used in real life, even in English.
Work
So, let's go directly to the work performed by specialists in this profession. The first is website development. But to say that this is their only task is impossible. In addition, web development has many stages that can be performed by both different people and a person who has completed courses.
In the process of creating a website or web application, you need to devote time to web design, layout, programming and configuration.
Steps
Of course, the phasing depends on the resource itself. But in general, there are several mandatory and common steps in this process:
- Creation. This refers to the design process, during which all information is collected and analyzed, developedterms of reference and the interface is being thought out.
- Creative. This is the next step in which you need to think of a creative concept.
- Design. Next comes the development of the appearance of the site.
- Detailing. Depending on the specialization of the resource, all the details need to be finalized at this stage.
- Assembly. Next comes layout and templates.
- Programming. This is a tricky stage where a web developer can hand over the reins to a person who understands it better.
- Optimization. This is another difficult speci alty that an SEO specialist can do.
- Tests. Next, you need to test all the functional elements and check their performance.
- Launch. You can then open the project and enable sharing.
- Support. The last step can take forever as maintenance is always needed.
Details
To the stages described above, of course, you can offer a more detailed plan. In addition, the steps may be performed in a different order. Everything will depend on the tasks of the resource.
Any private webmaster initially suggests creating a terms of reference. Although sometimes the project manager can also do this. In this case, you need to discuss all the details related to the site.
When everything is prepared, the tasks are scheduled, you can start designing. In this case, contact a web designer. This specialist, based on the terms of reference, makes a layout of the future project. There may be several of them, using differentelements and colors.
Further, design requirements are brought to life. This can be done by the designer himself, or you can give this stage to the layout designer. Sometimes, for small non-commercial projects, this step can be skipped altogether. Much easier to buy a template and install it on the content management system.
Website development is being completed by testing. In this case, all abilities of the resource are checked. After that, usability tests can be carried out, which indicate the usability of the site.
After that, you can launch the resource into the world. Again, everything will depend on the tasks and goals. For example, if this is an information site, you can immediately open it and continue to engage in content and optimization. If this is an online store, then before opening it is better to load it with content (at least with product cards), and then optimize it.
Requirements
Now webmaster services are very popular, because there are still few such specialists. Especially if we are talking about really dedicated to their work. Sometimes this profession can bring money from home, sometimes from the office. It all depends on the desire of the specialist.
Anyway, if you plan to work as a webmaster and are already trained in this business, then you will have to put up with some requirements for this profession.
Firstly, as practice shows, you need to be assiduous. The webmaster is an inactive person. He cannot jump up and run. He must always concentrate on the tasks at hand.
Alsospecialists of this profession should have an analytical mindset. You need to understand that with the development of technology, you will have to constantly learn and get acquainted with something new: hundreds of programs, rules and updates. And, of course, you need to be prepared for the fact that the volumes of information are simply immense.
Knowledge and skills
Webmasters can learn how to create websites at special courses. Of course, no one canceled self-taught, but, as practice shows, people who are generally far from this profession can hardly master it on their own.
During the training, you must acquire certain knowledge and skills in order to get a job in the company in the future. Be prepared to be required to be proficient in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. You need to know and understand the basics of PHP, Perl and SQL.
Next, you will need to learn how to work with graphic editors for image processing. Be able to buy and manage domains, as well as use the site management system.
Programs
To work, you will have to get acquainted with a number of webmaster programs. You can list them endlessly, besides, when you get to work in a company, you will most likely use different tools. But still there is something in common in such applications.
First, you definitely need a text editor. It doesn't matter which one you choose for yourself. Most often it becomes Notepad2. Naturally, you need to work with the browser. It is necessary to make one of them work in order to install special extensions and save an infinite number ofbookmarks.
Next, you need a file manager. As most webmasters say, this is Total Commander, and there is no better option. Next, you need an image viewer application like XnView.
It doesn't hurt to get a PicPick. Using the program, you can capture the screen, use a ruler, magnifier, protractor, etc. You will also need a keyboard switcher with text templates.
Among other things, you definitely need a tool for layout, building diagrams and flowcharts, working with passwords, web servers. The list can still be supplemented, but it is already selected individually, and may depend on the project.
Services
Well, finally, it's worth talking about "Yandex. Webmaster". This service is just for the surveyed speci alty. It has an alternative from Google (Google Search Console). But, as practice shows, it is better to use both services at once. This way you can get a more objective picture of how the site works.
So, the service is represented by a toolbar that helps to evaluate the indexing of the site, customize its descriptions and monitor statistics. This service is completely technical. It does not tell you how users react to content and what they are doing on your resource.
"Yandex. Webmaster" is aimed at search robots, technical errors, etc. Thanks to it, you can optimize the resource, view all statistics related to indexing, check the robots.txt file,analyze external and internal links.
Conclusions
He is such a universal webmaster, it turns out. It is very important to understand that in order to become a good specialist in this field, you need to constantly study, practice and earn experience.
Some people think this profession is useless, but it is on webmasters that all the commercialization of the Internet rests.
