Career Opportunities as a Web Master
A Webmaster is responsible for the design, development, maintenance and promotion of a website. In most organizations there will be only one Webmaster for a Website, but for larger sites the Webmaster will be the person in charge of the team of web designers and graphic designers who, as a team, are responsible for the website. As a Webmaster, you may take over an existing website from your predecessor, or you may be charged with designing a completely new site.
Web Designer : A Web designer is someone who designs Web pages. A Web designer is more focused on the look and feel of a website than how it works.
Web Developer : A Web developer is someone who programs Web pages. A Web developer is more focused on the way a website works than how it looks. They typically use HTML text editors and work with databases and programming languages as well as HTML.
The benefits of being a Webmaster are that you can work anywhere in the world (the market that you are competing in is exactly the same anywhere) and you can work for yourself.
For most positions, a potential employer will expect education to a degree level at least in an IT related discipline. Exceptions to this may be where the individual has sufficient experience and completed websites behind them to show that they are capable of doing the job. Qualification don’t really mean much to get a job as a web designer. The industry changes on a daily basis and the only reason that an employer will ask for a qualification is to ensure that your industry knowledge is at a certain level and that you are capable of doing the job.
If you want to be a Webmaster you need previous websites behind you. But One of the advantages of this career is that you can create your own experience by setting up your own websites. The websites that you have worked on previously will dictate the job offers that you get (if you’ve only done a small 4 page HTML site, don’t expect to get a job as Webmaster of oracle.com.
Key Skills required for Web Designing Job
At least a basic grounding in the following will start you off as a Web Master
HTML and HTML text editors (FrontPage / Dream weaver)
Graphic Design
Search Engine optimization
Web Design
Reasonable level of literacy
IT literacy
History of the Internet and Internet theory
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