Is the tilte of webmaster dead?

[kosar]

I was hired about 2 yrs ago to be a webmaster, but as the last yr and half progressed i find i am concentrating most of my time on seo. Is webmaster still the correct title for this position anymore?

[hannamyluv]

probably not. Most people feel that webmaster is an outdated term, and refers now more to the mom & pop, one man operations.

Most companies now have an internet marketer, web designer, programmer, etc. which all use to fall under the job description of one person before everybody started to get a clue.

[Essex_boy]

Funny that I was just thinking the same thing morning for real reason.

Its just that I have not seen it around for a number of years soooo I guess it is dead now, I wish someone would kill off the term 'hits'.

[Reflection]

I wish someone would kill off the term 'hits'.

Tell me about it. Talk about a useless term, that gets thrown around way too much.

[kpaul]

i used to have the title. i would joke that since i didn't get a very good salary, i got a cool title instead. ;)

i think it's still around (i get searches for it occasionally), but i think it describes the small one man independent shops and publishers on the web...

-kpaul

[krieves]

I manage the website for a large corporation. (I do the codeing, photography, and graphic arts for the site. While I'm responsible for the content, I usually have the appropriate business units supply it). My title is Website Manager. That's how it appears on my business cards. People still refer to me as the Corporate Webmaster, but I wish they wouldn't. I too, feel that it is an outdated term.

[isitreal]

I like the term, it's actually what drew me to web work in the first place, sounded cool, but I had no idea what it was.

I don't think of all the stuff I do as webmaster stuff, some I think more as programming, some more SEO type stuff, some HTML/CSS coding, but the core of taking care of sites, updating, server stuff, .htaccess stuff, stats, emails, calling tech support, etc... all that generally technical but not focused stuff I think of as webmastering, in other words, I'm not a 'server administrator' but I do some server administration, I'm not an regular expression guru but I do that stuff once in a while.

[ronin]

I prefer the term website editor.

Not least because people then see my job as having more to do with writing than technical implementation and put me in the media bracket rather than the IT bracket.

In reality, I probably do less of the former and slightly more of the latter though the lines tend to blur from one day to the next.

[vkaryl]

I just think of and call myself the "webbie". Since I do it all, and all of it pertains to getting and keeping sites up on the web, I think that pretty well covers it....

[kpaul]

<<I don't think of all the stuff I do as webmaster stuff, some I think more as programming, some more SEO type stuff, some HTML/CSS coding...>>

this is kinda my definition of a webmaster - a person with a little knowledge about a lot of things web related, a jack of all trades.

i think most people think of webmaster as a sys admin type guy, though...

*shrugs*

-kpaul

[AWildman]

I still have the title of webmaster, although my friends who don't really understand what I do call me "wonk" instead...
:)

[anallawalla]

I was a marketing manager at a leading web software vendor, and they had no target segment of "webmaster". Judging from slides shown in their public presentations, they still don't. They see their users as being designers, developers, programmers, managers, etc.

In user land, someone calling themselves a webmaster might wear several hats but another webmaster in the next building might not be able to walk in and take over the job of the first webmaster. It is just a convenient term, e.g. "engineer", which does not reveal the specialty of the person - software, chemical, civil etc.