{"id":205,"date":"2007-04-22T09:31:36","date_gmt":"2007-04-22T07:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/04\/22\/return-of-webmasters\/"},"modified":"2007-05-13T01:21:47","modified_gmt":"2007-05-12T23:21:47","slug":"return-of-webmasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/04\/22\/return-of-webmasters\/","title":{"rendered":"Return of Webmasters?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If someone would told me a year ago, that webmasters are going to return big style, I\u2019d say &#8211; that\u2019s crazy. But now, with a portal or two under my belt, the idea doesn&#8217;t seems so funny anymore. I <a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/2006\/12\/30\/nacionalhr-has-a-new-standards-aware-chief-editor\/\">wrote<\/a> about new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nacional.hr\/\">Nacional.hr<\/a> and how bringing the right person for the job lifted the site from the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Every serious web portal &#8211; sooner or later &#8211; suffers from the limitations caused by predefined cover designs. Those initial designs usually work well in the beginning of the site&#8217;s life-time, but eventually as the content grows, the editorial stuff is crying for more freedom.<\/p>\n<p>What to do in such situation? There are certainly a few noteworthy paths. At web.burza, we even developed a fancy drag &#8216;n&#8217; drop cover management module. It gives chief editors freedom never seen before, works like a charm in your browser, the learning curve is easy and fast, it even delivers 100% valid markup, &#8230; but it has it&#8217;s drawbacks, too.<\/p>\n<p>Such semi-automated systems don&#8217;t cover <em>all<\/em> the possible scenarios. The development is rather expensive for such a product. And at the end of the day, for any layout setup that&#8217;s not covered, you\u2019ll have to contact the agency.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the time agencies have an expert who can full-fill an editor&#8217;s vision, but the procedure is rather slowish. For a breaking news scenario, a response time of an hour or two can make a difference between the winner and the last one in the race.<\/p>\n<p>At portals which are taken care of by a full-time employed webmaster, such inconvenience can be minimized, if not avoided altogether. Webmaster who is a jack-of-all-trades and a problem solver, could replace all the custom cover management systems, no doubt. However, employing such a savvy guy raises the general costs of the web site.<\/p>\n<p>The question remains &#8211; is the ability to <em>create custom covers fast<\/em> worth enough having another employee on a payroll every month?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If someone would told me a year ago, that webmasters are going to return big style, I\u2019d say &#8211; that\u2019s crazy. But now, with a portal or two under my belt, the idea doesn&#8217;t seems so funny anymore. I wrote about new Nacional.hr and how bringing the right person for the job lifted the site [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-user-experience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}