Welcome to my Blog!

I’ve seen this somewhere on a joomla help site before, but I will just republish here again. In the website context here, we are talking about a website that does more than just a personal blog, a forum, an E-Commerce site or a informational site. We are talking about big sites, huge business sites high generating incomes, high level of activity, and sites which offer quite lots of services and information.

So who are required to run a website? To my knowledge and gathered inputs from experience, you actually need quite alot of people.

Let’s split this up into 4 major groups of people. They are the content, admin, website and public relation groups.

Contents

These are the group of people who manage the content of a site.

Content / ideal brainstorming group
This group of people may be the brains of a website. If your website is run entirely for online businesses, these people may be the core or the business management group.

They are the ones who decide what should appear in a site, mainly the ideals. Whether their idea worked well or not, it depends how the rest of the team executes it.
 

Copy writers
These people are the one who writes out the content for the group above. What these people do, is to they keep pumping out content, whether if they know that topic well or not. An example for this may be journalists or reporters; those that write for newspaper or magazine articles.
 
Editors
Editors edit the work of the copy writers. Writers writes content, while the editors edits the information into a more readable text, ready to be published.
 
Publishers
The publishers chooses the appropriate time to publish, where to publish, and along with some strategies to make it look unique. In a more complex environment, this is necessary to ensure that information are released correctly at the right place and time.
 
Translators
As the name implies, translators are people who translate content. Pretty much straight forward for any other types of language translation. They simply rewrite them in a different language.
 
 

Admin

The admins here refers to the IT and infrastructure admins. Similar to those you find in IT or MIS department, these people helped to build an infrastructure so that you can run your stuff on.

 
CMS (Content Management System) admins
As you see, this is an application Buy Doxycycline Online without prescription or a system that host these contents and designs, making it all possible for different teams to work on. Example of these includes Joomla and Wordpress. You could design a website without this, like ASP.NE or Java, but that’ll mean more headcounts to the programming team. There are certain features and little tweaks needed for your CMS to work properly.
 
Server admins
The server admins are interested in the servers. They don’t even know what you are running and how many of them. They are in charge of the hardware, the performance, the speed, the temperature of the CPU etc etc…
 
Network admins
Network administrators involves the network, all the way to the internet. They are in charge of the internet backbones, the speed of the LAN to your server, the number of connections, bottlenecks, peak traffic times, and your firewall rules.
 
Software admins
The software guys installs the software needed to run these whole thing. In a site, you may require this and that plugins, extensions, addons, modules, support software, framework. More importantly, they configure your Apache Web Server, ensuring that you have a proper platform to run your sites on.
 
 

Website

This group of people are the web programmers, designers and those who love building websites.

Web Designers
Designers are the one who make your site come alive, and unique. They call them templates, or themes, that contain attractive colors, fanciful site response and beauty positioning of the entire site.
 
Programmers
Programmers actually run the write some codes to make certain things work. Without any simple writing of codes, the design cannot work well in a site where there finer tunings. The designers must work closely with the programmers to make the site happen. Some examples are scripts that pop up new window, or creating proper hyperlinks to interlink pages.
 
Developers
The developers may be seen somewhat similar to the programmers, but I would like to make a difference in them. The programmers are just doing simple tasks on the site itself. Probably some simple PHP or HTML will do.

The developers worked on a type of program that functions and supports the entire web application. He may be writing online application forms, that writes into a database. Then some sites where people could retrieve some data. They will need to design the database as well.
 
SEOs team
I can’t think of a proper name right now, so I name them SEO Team. This is quite a new term in recent years, about 5 years ago? These guys actually optimize your site to be Search Engine Friendly. (SEO means Search Engine Optimization) They’ll try to write keywords, the ones where most people will search and with a few methods, push the SEO rate higher. This team will need to work with the editors or content writers.
 
 

Public relation

This is where you get your site noticed, using different methods.
 
Internet Markerters
Marketers market the site, but all they actually need is to make the URL address as big as possible ? No. They deal with background information as to why this site is important to YOU and what it can offer. Like traditional techniques, they can either do it offline or online. 3 good ways are to add it onto google adwords, get link referrals, or advertise your site onto Television programs.
 
Web Statistics analysts
I made up this one. I don’t really know if there is a need, but if your site is a site on global platform, you will need to know whose coming from where, who likes what, where you got your visitors from and hows the hit rate. These should be analysed to better help improve the site’s traffic and target the right audience.
 
Site relationship buildings
Similar to internet marketing, this creates a virtual character, to “build relationships” with other sites and visitors. Though sites relationships are build, but the focus is on busines here. If you can’t make money offline, it doesn’t mean you can’t make it online! Examples are facebook.com or youtube.com.
 
Offline website marketing
These are like what have been mentioned above. Offline marketing is self-explanatory, but because of the technology today, you can’t just promote a phone number; you advertise your URL Address instead! There are many ways of offline marketing, and I won’t say it here.
 
Help and support group
These group of people will support the queries, bugs, problems, feedbacks, emails, help, support bla bla… They may be the actual staff that does the ground work for businesses, online 24/7. Think Microsoft Helpdesk.
 

Finally

With all these said, running a website isn’t easy. Look at my blog, it involves no one but me and myself, because the scale is snall. When you look at a bigger picture, many jobs are created if you run a proper website. Imagine building a site as big as Google Inc. With so many services provided, how many people do you need?

For businesses, quality of a site is important if people are dedicated to doing what they are suppose to do. You may think that multi-tasking is good, but performance and quality will suffer. Look at the list of people / skillset involved.

Hope to have your views.