promoting webmasters and websites

unitone said:

Posted December 29th, 2008 by vedetta

User response to Facebook's ban of breastfeeding photos. The Facebook group "Hey, Facebook, breastfeeding is not obscene!(Official petition to Facebook)" was created as a response to Facebook's policy of designating breastfeeding photos as obscene and removing breastfeeding photos from member albums and profiles. The group has now more than 75,000 members. Thousands of breasfeeding photos were posted by the petition group in protest, despite Facebook sending messages to posters warning them not to repost or face the possibility of being kicked off of Facebook.

unitone said:

Posted December 28th, 2008 by vedetta

Age ratings for websites coming in 2009. Plans for "cinema-style age ratings" for English language websites are being developed by UK and USA governments. The Internet is described as "quite a dangerous place" and in the name of protecting the children ISPs could be forced to offer "child-safe" connections. This is a first step towards implementing a new standard of decency for the web. http://LookAlso.com/2p

unitone said:

Posted December 28th, 2008 by vedetta

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il thinks he is an "Internet expert". Only the country's ruling elite has access to the Internet. http://LookAlso.com/2o

unitone said:

Posted December 26th, 2008 by vedetta

The Internet is the second preferred medium for getting the news for Americans. A survey by Pew Research Center for the People & the Press indicates the Internet has surpassed newspapers as the main source for national and international news for Americans, rising to second place after television. http://LookAlso.com/2m

unitone said:

Posted December 26th, 2008 by vedetta

Vietnam targets blogs with new internet censorship rules. Blogs with posts that undermine national security, incite violence, disclose state secrets, or not written in "clean and wholesome" language will be banned. Internet service providers will police the content of blogs they host and report to the government every six months. International companies like Google and Yahoo may be affected by the new rules. Vietnam is part of the 2008 Reporters without Borders 13 "Enemies of the Internet" list. OpenNet Initiative (ONI) categorizes Vietnam as practicing extreme levels of Internet censorship.

unitone said:

Posted December 24th, 2008 by vedetta

US questions ICANN's plan to allow an unlimited number of new gTLDs (Generic Top Level Domains). ICANN plans to sell between 200 and 800 new addresses at $185,000 per domain, or $60,000 per year. The US Commerce department would like to see the rationale for this fee structure, and evidence regarding the stability and security of DNS (Domain Name System) under the new scheme. http://LookAlso.com/2j

unitone said:

Posted December 24th, 2008 by vedetta

The Merb project is being merged with Ruby on Rails. A version with the best features of both will be released in 2009 under the name Rails 3. The Merb project is not being abandoned. Developers can still use Merb and rely on patches and updates. Blogged: http://LookAlso.com/2i Rails: http://www.rubyonrails.com Merb http://www.merbivore.com

What is a webmaster

The webmaster is a person who manages all aspects of Web operations. The webmaster is responsible for website design, website development, website hosting, website marketing, website promotion, and website optimization.

In the process of web design, the webmaster creates a website concept, a website plan, followed by a visual model which finalizes in a website layout and website skin. The website layouts and website skins are further processed in web development to be integrated in website templates. Web design will be based on a business plan which will determine the design and layout style, the color scheme and the technologies used to create the web design.

Web development is part of the non-design aspect of a webmaster's work. During web development, a webmaster is coding the framework on which the website will run. Website skins and website layouts are also implemented during web development, with the webmaster writing the markup code for transforming a design into a functional website template. The main areas in web development are: client side coding, server side coding, and database technology.

The webmaster will chose a website host and website hosting plan for the website, based on the project's requirements. Website hosting is influenced by the technologies used during website development, the geographical location of the web host, the uptime of the web hosting company, the storage space for the whole website, and the price for website hosting and bandwidth. Website hosting is of the following types: free web hosting, shared web hosting, reseller web hosting, virtual dedicated server hosting, dedicated server hosting, managed hosting, colocation web hosting, clustered hosting, grid hosting, and home server.

When the website is online, the webmaster will do website marketing and website promotion by following the strategy laid out in the website's business model. During this stage, the webmaster will run ad campaigns, monitor usage logs, design and develop ads, and submit the website to related search engines, link directories and any other index. Targeting the right audience and using the right advertising type, media and design will greatly influence the success of a website. The webmaster will do search engine marketing (SEM) to increase the website's visibility in search engine result pages (SERPs) via payed placement and payed inclusion.

During the process of website optimization, the webmaster addresses problems in website usability, website accessibility and website search engine optimization (SEO). Website usability is making a website more easy and satisfying to use. Website accessibility focuses on making a website usable by people of all abilities and disabilities. Search engine optimization (SEO) deals with improving how different search engines index the website, and improving the quality of traffic from those search engines.

About Vedetta

Vedetta is a webmaster nexus for all who are interested in expanding their knowledge and skills in website design, development, marketing and maintenance.

It provides a professional environment where webmasters can receive instant feedback from their peers on a wide variety of subjects.

The goal is to actively promote webmasters to the Web and IRC communities at large, by advertising their profiles and the websites they have created both in the IRC chat room and on the Vedetta website.

We are seeking new users, aiming to evolve from a small cozy place to a big webmaster network of fruitful collaborations.

Everyone is invited to join the chat and meet the regular webmasters who hail from USA, Canada, Germany, France, Romania and Turkey, among others.

IRC: irc://irc.undernet.org/webmaster
WEB: http://www.vedetta.com

The Webmaster Micro-Blog

Posted July 2nd, 2007 by vedetta

News, scoops, and pitches from the webmaster chat room.