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  • 10-09-2008 10:03pm
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    zazzz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 74 ✭✭


    How do you become a webmaster. What sort of skills do you need, are there many jobs for
    this area, whats the salary from starting to pro.


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    Axwell
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 10,462 Mod ✭✭✭✭Axwell


    Depends what you mean by webmaster. There are loads of different roles in the whole web design/development area and all with different salaries. Have you any experience or are you hoping to start out in this area?Depending on what you want to do then good computer skills, an eye for design, a basic interest in coding and a general interest in the area would be a good start.

    Assuming you are starting out then I would suggest first off reading up on html,xhtml and css and some javascript. Get yourself setup with a domain and a site and mess about with that. Put the word out with family and friends and try get some sites to work on for a portfolio and get some experience. From there once you build upa portfolio you could apply for jobs down the line. A portfolio of work is a must have when applying for any of these jobs. If you want to get into development then you should look at some sort of language like PHP or ASP and integrating it with databases like MySQL.

    Have a look at w3schools and lynda.com for some tutorials in the above. P has posted some links in other threads to some good books to check out also.


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    Stab*City
    Registered Users Posts: 2,413 ✭✭✭Stab*City


    are you working at the moment if so as what? would you have time to do a course as there are plenty decent courses starting around this time..


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    Eoin
    Registered Users Posts: 21,242 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    As Axwell says, this can cover a good few actual roles.

    It might mean a web developer or designer who is responsible for the corporate website and management of the webserver(s), or it might mean a marketing role that manages the site, giving requirements to a web-design shop, or an internal resource. Or it could be someone in technical support who is somewhere in between. In my last company it was a small team who purely dealt with queries that came in through the site.

    This one here sounds more like the traditional idea of a webmaster, but I have noticed it's not a role that comes up as much anymore - especially since the dotcom days when every company seemed to have someone expressly responsible for looking after the website.

    If it's an IT job, then you will need some scripting or development experience, and at least a working knowledge of webservers (IIS / Apache etc). A smaller company with less technical resources may need you to manage the server at an OS level as well, and perform sysadmin tasks as well.


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