At 09:21 AM 5/14/1998 +1000, Dane Sullivan so eloquently stated:
>
>I'm the so called webmaster for a government department and have slowing
>introduced the department to the web. My bosses have now been given a
>political order to get the agency on the web. At present our site will be
>located on an IBM RS6000 box with the latest beta release of Apache. What
>I need basically is a list of tools that will allow our sections to publish
>their information onto the our server. I have been told to do little or no
>actual coding of pages but to provide the tools and mechanisims for staff
>to do this.
>
Well there is the "Every-Newbie-In-The-World-Can-DoIt" package
available everywhere for $1.99. All it takes is the ability to
hold a pencil in your hand. Or, if you spend another 50 cents
you can get the voice activated model. They of course there is
the super-duper deluxe model that retails for $2.99 where you
strap a belt to your head and it extracts brain waves about what
you are thinking and creates a Web page in less time than it takes to blink.
I'm being quasi-facetious of course, but unfortunately that is
the mentality of so many people ( your bosses, not you Dane).
Effective Web design is an art not an admin task. I see so many
corporate types getting on the Web with their knowledge of
databases and mainframes and their sites suck.
Tell your bosses they need to hire some folks to do this job
effectively. I'm sure you can find some excellent talent on the WCA.
George
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