[Sigia-l] I found this great page on Monster.com!

[Phil Glatz]

At 05:34 PM 1/15/2003 +0000, 'twas wrote:
> > Isn't webmaster a jack-of-all-trades anyway? Using it as a job 
> description is a joke.
>
>It's depressing to think that someone might actually have a joke as their 
>real title.

To Unix administrators of a certain age, the "master" suffix indicates 
responsibility or authority for a role - postmaster, hostmaster, 
etc.  Common usage may be diminishing this somewhat, but webmaster is still 
a real title, referring to more of a technical than creative role.  The 
webmaster role is defined differently in many organizations, but originally 
meant the person with the technical skills to glue the various parts 
together.  As web sites evolved from their original simple origins 
(interconnected sources of textual organization), more skills and areas of 
knowledge were added.

A small shop may have a single person responsible for all content, art, 
editorial, usability, and technical issues, but these are generally farmed 
out to specialists in this area on larger sites.  And the webmaster may not 
be the "master" of large sites, in the sense of being executive producer 
any more, but may still be the single point of contact to the outside world 
for reporting problems.

But I can assure you that the webmaster role is alive and well!

-Phil (webmaster and proud of it) Glatz