What is a webmaster?

[JGM]

A wemaster is somebody who owns, runs, maintains, manages, edits, updates etc their own site to which they should own the domain to. This could mean building up backlinks, SEO, content for the site, unique features and everything in between.

As Mr. H said anybody can put together a "site" but a true webmaster goes a lot further than that, is never happy and always looking for ways to improve their site.

I was one of those ones who "put together a site" for the most part with very little knowledge and experience but I learn best by doing and have learnt a lot with a lot more yet to learn. I have downloaded books about HTML, PHP and CSS to try and learn and this is something (imho) that a webmaster should always be doing... learning.

Just my own thoughts on the subject, nice idea for a thread

JGM.

[Daniel]

I't seems that to be a "true webmaster" you have to have both programming and graphic design skills. However, these two skill areas require very different cognitive skills not usually present in one individual.