How to become a good webmaster?

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Hello my name is Antonio and I have 37 years.
I'm trying to become a webmaster.
Get all the information possible and imaginable on everything you need to know for a beginner webmaster.

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Hello Antonio,

Welcome to TWF!

A "webmaster" is typically the person responsible for the administration of a web site, user management, determining content etc.

A "web designer" is usually the person who creates the look of the web site, but does not code it.

A "web developer" is the person who creates the architecture and database (if needed) (a "back-end developer") and codes the user interfaces and implements the designer's look ("front-end developer")

It is unusual for one person to be equally talented in all three roles.

Here are a couple of good tutorial web sites:

http://www.w3schools.com/
http://tizag.com/

if you prefer videos:

http://lynda.com/

Good luck, and let us know about your success!

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decibel.places wrote:
A "webmaster" is typically the person responsible for the administration of a web site, user management, determining content etc.

This is kind of a self-conscious question, but is someone who administrates a Wordpress powered site with a purchased theme still considered a webmaster? I launched my own site, but it doesn't feel like I have many of the basic skills most webmasters have.

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Hi, welcome to TWF Antonio!

decibel.places offers good advice. Smiling You should also hang around here, and ask us any questions you get.

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How to become a great webmaster

Sit at your keyboard and read and do everything SEO for aty least 3 years.

Don't leave the keyboard until you make a living.

lol

Mr City

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citymaniac wrote:
How to become a great webmaster

Sit at your keyboard and read and do everything SEO for aty least 3 years.

Don't leave the keyboard until you make a living.

lol

Mr City

If it does that it will became "maniac" not webmaster!
Why he should read SEO ? It is not necessary atoll at start!

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citymaniac wrote:
How to become a great webmaster

Sit at your keyboard and read and do everything SEO for aty least 3 years.

Don't leave the keyboard until you make a living.

lol

Mr City

That long? 2 years won't be enough?

Well, I've been learning the basics of seo for that past 5 or so months, not full time, but still, a good amount of reading. And I have to say, the more that I learn, but more I realize what I still need to learn.

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Webmaster related knowledge is like chocolate - you can never have enough.

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Greensphere wrote:
Webmaster related knowledge is like chocolate - you can never have enough.

I'm starting to understand what you mean with this statement. I started a Wordpress blog, and there are so many plugins that I need to learn about. There are so many options of what you can add and what you can avoid. And especially with social media sites there is a lot to choose from and keep up with if you want to be successful and stay current with trends.

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So right!

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ilcreativo wrote:
I'm trying to become a webmaster.
Get all the information possible and imaginable on everything you need to know for a beginner webmaster.

Depends on what you want to do. The definition of a webmaster is very open and covers many areas, so advising you depends on what you want to be doing.

For getting started and learning the basics use tizag.com. It is well written and flows like a good tutorial from one area to the next.

If you just want basic sites, you need HTML and CSS. Nothing else.
For more advanced control such as managing user inputs, such as member login and manipulating form data, you will need a server side, such as ASP, PHP.
For a beginner I would always advise using PHP, as the amount of support is greater than for ASP.

Learn HTML, then learn CSS. When you can make web pages neatly and align various things correctly arond a page, using divs, floats etc, then move onto the next thing such as Javascript or PHP and MYSQL.
Learn HTML and CSS THOROUGHLY first though...

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I'm starting out with a Wordpress site, so most of the html coding, actually all of it, is done for me, since I am using a theme that is pretty dynamic.

Has anyone here started out with these such accounts, that involve minimal coding? I'm thinking to start out here and then later on try and code from scratch because right now I only have enough time to learn so much.

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good knowledges and experience are given by freelance

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respect Antonio & all guys!

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maybe for learn you can use wordpress..
Because its easier than vb, php and html..But for become webmaster you must learn all program for site and learn to read code

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