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Webmaster Training 2005
What are the basic tasks that a webmaster should know how to do? This page lists some of these things, and will have links to full descriptions of how to do these tasks.
Webmaster Training 2005 - Map Of Topics
Student log training: Christophers Log (Search for Log)
Webmaster Training 2005 Completed Days
Syllabus:
Suggested Future Syllabus
- Reviewing Assignment 2
- How Web Servers Work
- HTTP Protocol
- CGI-BIN Scripts
- Error 404 Handlers
- Webmaster Glossary
- HTML
- HTTP
- CGI-BIN
- 404 Error Handler
- CSS
- Computer Management For The Webmaster
- Viruses
- Spyware
- Popups
- Spam
- Setting Up Web Hosting Accounts
- Direct Server Management vs. Control Panel
- httpd.conf for configuring Apache Web Server under Windows Or Linux
- IIS Computer Management On Windows Servers
- The Need For a Good Control Panel
- Reseller Account Under Linux Using Ensim Control Panel
- Reseller Account Under Windows Using Helm Control Panel
- Creating End User Web Accounts
- Allocating Resources With A Control Panel
- Creating End User Web Accounts On Linux With Ensim Control Panel
- Creating End User Web Accounts On Windows With Helm Control Panel
- Editing Your Site
- Using Control Panel File Manager To Change Your Site
- Using The Ensim Control Panel File Manager Under Linux
- Using The Helm Control Panel File Manager Under Windows
- Using FTP to Change Your Web Site
- Introduction To Using FrontPage (Search) to Edit Your Website
Day 5: Picture Galleries, Free And Low Cost Alternate Hosting, Webmaster Software
- Introduction to Creating Galleries of pictures
- Resizing pictures
- Creating full size and thumbnail web ready pictures from originals
- Uploading the pictures
- Using Windows File Explorer
- Using DOS FTP Program
- Introduction to Linking Pictures To A Wiki
- Using Free Web Site Hosting
- Characteristics Of Free Website Hosting
- Why Use Free Website Hosting?
- How To Find Free Website Hosting
- Using Free Website Online Site Builders
- Introduction To Very Low Cost Flat Page Hosting
- [Webmaster Software]?Create|Search
- FTP
- DOS client software
- Windows client
- ncftp
- SSH telnet session, using PUTTY
- Graphic software to manipulate images
- Graphic Workshop Pro
- Paint Shop Pro
Day 6: Focus On Wikis
- Setting Up A Wiki
- Setting Up A Wiki On Linux Ensim Control Panel Account
- Setting Up A Wiki On Windows Helm Control Panel Account
- Mechanics of Website Construction Using a Wiki
- Advice on naming wiki web pages (URLs)
- Advice on keywords
- Wiki webpages
- Creating new wiki pages
- Basic wiki formatting
- Hyperlinks between wiki pages
- Wiki tutorials
- Wiki features
- Recent Changes
- Page revisions
- Index of pages
- Search command
- Running as 404 error handler
- Other popular wikis
- Advanced Wiki Construction and Maintenance
- Combining FrontPage (Search for FrontPage) and Wiki pages on the same website
- Special wiki commands only available on Web Mill Wiki's
- ISBNTEXT - Text links to books
- ISBNPICM - Book pictures
- SSIInclude
- Refactor
- Templates
- Administrator access
- Removing spam entries
- Adding to the banlist
- Locking wiki pages
Day 7: Search Engines And Generating Web Traffic
- Search Engine Searching For Webmasters
- Kinds of Search Engines
- Search Engines
- Search Directories
- Meta Search
- How Search Engines Work
- Site Submission
- Web Spiders
- Different ways to search supported by most search engines
- List of words
- Phrases
- Negation
- Major first tier search engines
- www.Google.com
- www.Yahoo.com
- www.MSN.com
- Smaller First Tier Search Engines
- Northern lights
- Altavista
- All the web
- Major Directories
- www.dmoz.org
- Submission process
- XML data feed
- www.trulyopendirectory.com - DMOZ data converted to wiki format
- Meta search engines:
- Practical Searching Tasks For The Webmaster
- Research for content creation
- Checking site coverage
- Finding technical support answers
- How To Generate Web Traffic
- Submitting Websites to search engines
- Submitting to search directories
- Dmoz.org
- trulyopendirectory.com
- Looksmart - Commercial
- Zeal.com - Strictly non-commercial
- JoeAnt?Create|Search.com
- Commercial Vs. Non-Commercial Conflict On The Internet
- Adding links to wiki websites
- How to find wiki websites
- Adding links to blog websites sites
- Paid advertising
- Traffic exchanges
- Banner ads
- Google Adwords
- Overture pay-per-click advertising
- Common Web Applications
- Discussion Forum
- Free Web Hosting
- Mailing List Management
- Web Traffic Techniques You Should Not Use
- The Futility Of Attracting Traffic With Web Popups
- Avoid Spam In All It's Forms
- Website Design And It's Effect On Website Traffic
- Sites Must Be Easy For Spiders To Follow
- Must Have Old Fashioned Text Links In Addition To Javascript Pulldown Menus
- Generating Web Traffic Best Practices
- Adding New Content
- Webmaster Forum 26 Steps To Web Traffic From Google
- Analyzing Web Traffic
Day 8: Introduction To Making Money Online
- How To Make Money Online
- Doing Web Design For Clients
- Writing Content
- Site Restructuring
- Using Automated Tools To Create Value Added Content To Sell
- Amazon Associates Program
- Google Adsense
- Commission Junction
- Tracking your progress
Day 9: Focus On Content Creation
- Researching Keywords
- Overture's keyword suggestion tool
- Wordtracker.com
- lycos top 50
- Mistyped search words
- Strategies for creating content
- From old books
- Reviewing books
- From other websites
- .GOV goldmine of information
- How to find public domain information
- Repurposing/Refactoring?Create|Search information
- News stories
- Radio talk show notes
- Documenting bugs in software
- Software / Hardware reviews
- Cookbooks and recipes
- Photo galleries / Tourism websites
- Open Source content you can use
- wikipedia.org
- Creative Commons text
Day 11: Introduction To Webmaster Programming
- Webmaster Programming
- Perl language
- Writing website automation utilities - Web spiders
- Taking text from one website, and reformatting and using on own websites
- Writing file manipulation utilities - changing text files from one form to another. e.g. Convert a text file into a series webpages
- CGI scripts
- Computer Management For The Webmaster
- Viruses
- Spyware
- Popups
- Spam
Day 12: Making Money On The Internet Part II
- Ways To Make Money On The Internet
- Create web content that includes click through revenue
- Sell Web Hosting And Design
- Teach Classes On Webmastering And Web Traffic Generation
- Sell Internet Tools such as SIQL Personal Edition
- Create a membership site
- Sell Website add-ons to improve websites
- Bookstores
- Wikis
- SIQL Pages
- Wiki Bookstores
Day 13
- Webmaster Programming - Day 2 - Manipulating Local Files
Day 14
- Webmaster Programming - Day 3 - Automated Internet Access
Day 15
- Webmaster Programming - Day 4 - Creating New Site Features
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