Your website
is the chief contact that a potential customer has with your business. Your website
must be easy to maintain, visually engaging, loved by search engines, business
focused, and developed by a professional team. The web department is
responsible for developing and maintaining your site. So hiring an individual team
for this is the superb idea for growing your business.
The members
of the web department are the web director, the associate web director, the web
intern and the application developers. The major responsibilities of the
members of this department are publishing an online version of the paper,
coding in CSS, XHTML, and PHP for particular online features, coding in MYSQL
and AJAX for web projects, coding in FLASH, PHP and/or JAVA to develop
interactive web design applications.
The web
director is the leader of the web department who looks over all the members of
the team. He/she participates in different kinds of web-related work. He is
involved in hiring other members of the web department and providing good
education and training as needed. He/she also makes managerial decisions about
the website and influences technology-based decisions made by the board. The
position of the director is not an entry-level position.
The
associate web director works with the director and is mainly responsible for
coding and publication of web projects and features. The associate director can
share the web director’s work as needed. The position of the associate director
is an entry-level, salaried position.
The web
intern is a member in training who desires to rank high in the future. The
primary duties of the web intern depend on the work type that is required, but
usually involve helping other employees with common computer-based questions
and working on small web-based projects with the web director or the associate
web director. The web intern contributes to the website by learning more about
how it works.
Application
developers are the members of the web department responsible for creating
dynamic, interactive applications for the website for special stories and
features. They are not responsible for any web-based work. The application
developers need extensive experience with coding with Flash, JAVA, PHP, and/or
other high-level programming languages.
The web
department allows strategic goals to become united within the company, and focuses
on managing products, permitting your business to benefit from productive online
presence, without financial problem. It constantly monitors your online presence
for functionality errors, usability issues, compatibility issues, and malware
issues and removal. It uses active and integrated approach to online business
and efficiently manages company’s web properties.