What Should You Look When Hiring A Uk Webmaster?
May 13th 2015 Posted at Webmaster Tools
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Your site is in on the fritz and you’re in a bit of a tizz. Who you gonna call? Ghostbusters? The fire brigade? Dr. Phil?
Of course not!
You need a webmaster. A pro. Someone who can just fix that sucker with a minimum of fuss. No excuses, no procrastination, no mess-ups.
So what would someone like that look like?
1. Experience.
When you tell him the problem, he ought to be able to recall past experiences of it. “Oh yeah, that’s very common, I can sort that easily. I remember once …”. A webmaster who is a webMASTER should have years of experience in patching up websites.
This means uploading, updating, configuring and moving websites. You’d be surprised at how many little things have to work right for your website to go online and stay online.
2. Technical Expertise.
A webmaster should be proficient in things like PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Cpanel, Linux, Photoshop and Apache web server. These are common technologies used to tart up a website, get it online and keep in there. Usually, a website can be simple HTML or they can be PHP based or a combination of the two.
Some sites are completely script-based. These are called CMS (Content Management Systems). A popular one is WordPress. It lets someone who is not a webmaster to add articles to a website, easily. The downside is that it needs a database called MySQL to store the data. This, plus the scripts, makes it more complicated. More complication means it’s more possible that something will break down.
This is when a webmaster steps in and sorts out the problem. He should also explain what the problem was and what he’s done.
3. Explains Things Simply.
There’s a lot of technical stuff that goes into running a website. Not everyone understands this. Some folks don’t even know how their PC works. This is not a failing. Most people don’t know how their car works but millions of people commute to work and back again happily every day.
Web technical issues can be explained in simple language. As long as your webmaster does what you require, that’s the important thing. However, it’s good if you know what he’s doing. A bad webmaster obfuscates what he does so you don’t cotton onto how incompetent he is.
4. Works To Schedule.
A good webmaster, if he says it’ll be done by Tuesday, it’ll be done Tuesday. Properly.
A bad webmaster underquotes for the work involved and then does it late or badly or not at all. It’s very common for a bad webmaster not to reply to your emails when he realises that he’s effectively being paid 3 quid an hour, even though it’s his own fault.
Want to hear more? Go to http://www.webmasterservice.co.uk and then give Tommy a call. Tommy offers website help and is a website designer in London, UK. He has twelve year’s experience in commissioning software, websites and services and understands how to get your work done quickly and to the highest standard.