What does a Webmaster do? page 3

Alright, we have discussed all or most aspects of Building, Maintaining and Owning a Website. The next phase for a Webmaster is how do I make money and get clients to hire me to be the Webmaster for their Website. This is the phase I'm at, how do I do this for a living, where do I find the clients, how complex of a Website do I want to Webmaster. So I put together these pages for a little background information about my site and about me. Thinking that perhaps someone will read this that knows someone, that would like to start a Website or needs someone to help maintain an existing Website that has just gotten to big or the individual no longer has the time for the day to day requirements of maintaining a Website.

So what are my qualifications, well I wish I could say I went to Harvard or MIT, I did put in 2 years at La Crosse State University, passed a course in Welding at Western Wisconsin Technical College, completed the Total Webmaster course at the Community College here in town and an A+ Certification in Computer Introduction at the Mastery Level at DPEC. Plus I have read many books on HTML coding, written Java scripts, actually, look around my sites, it has all been done by me and is the best representation of my abilities and practices. Remember that this site is designed for new computer users and is enhanced for people on dailup connections, by that I mean, graphics are compressed, pages are designed to be a small in size so they load faster with a dailup connection, even my flash banners are small in size and the header and footer sections are the same on every page, that way once their Browser caches it, it does not need to load it again on the next page or any other page on the site, only the content below the Header of the page. I have also removed most of the tables on the site pages, which also helps with loading times for browsers. I am currently converting this site to CSS and updating the code.

I built my other site from scratch, using CSS, MyProjectVehicle.com. With this site I use a single template that has my Header and Footer, I save it to the new pages name and then begin to build the content of the new page. To be honest I had so many pages before and after Style Sheets became popular, I just did not want to basically start from scratch and redo all my pages on Mikescomputerinfo.com, lol. The use of Frames on pages are nice to, but I know years ago Search Engines had problems spidering them, so I stayed away from them on this site, they have there uses though, in fact I do use frames on this page, News Feed.

Next you maybe wondering what is my setup for doing this kind of work and what Operating Systems are you familiar with. Right now I'm using a Computer that has two 19" LCD monitors, has a Athlon XP 2700 cpu, Geforce FX 5600 Graphics card, 2 gig of ram, with Windows XP Home and a DVD/RW Drive. My other computer has XP Pro installed on it, with an Athlon 64 3500 CPU, Radeon X1650pro 256MB PCI Express x16 graphics card, 2 gigs DDR 400 Memory, DVD/RW Drive. I'm on a cable connection and have a USB HP Deskjet F300 ALL-in-One printer setup for use by all these computers. On other Hard Drives I have Ubuntu Linux, Windows 98. For checking pages in Browsers I use Firefox, IE and Safari. If you would like help setting up a website contact me using Contact Mike under Message in the Java Menu.

Update 10-2008 The latest website I have developed for a company is NakedMetalRestorations.com. I used a CMS ( Content Management System ) for this website. The reason was to have the ability to present a simple website at first and later have the ability to enlarge it as their business grows and they have more content to add to the site. These CMS systems are idea for this, you have a Control Panel where you can add modules, pages and other content easily and once made it is a site wide change. You can also regulate what certain users can and cannot see. It is a very flexible system for running a website.

Here is a list of Websites I have Designed and Developed:

MikesComputerInfo.com Hand coded.
MikesComputerInfoArcade.com Arcade CMS that I have redesigned.
MyProjectVehicle.com Template Based site.
NakedMetalRestorations.com I really like this one, it is a CMS, Content Management System, very complex but yet a simple system. Many large Websites use these, you have an Administration Panel that controls every aspect of the site. If you make a change it is changed site wide, it has tons of options.