Web Master Field Hits New Heights Demand Grows for Changing Internet Career

Culloton, Dan, Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)

Byline: Dan Culloton Daily Herald Business Writer

Web master has a cool ring to it.

It sounds like the name of a comic book superhero or of some omniscient and omnipotent enchanter - a mysterious and royal figure who might bellow "Bow down before me knaves, I am the Web master!"

Of course, Web master is really the title of a job - one that, even considering the explosive growth and hype of the Internet, has its share of tedium like other careers.

Still jobs that fall under the broad title of Web master or Web developer remain among the fastest growing diversifying professions in our economy.

Earlier in the decade, when the Internet was still the province of technology-savvy hobbyists, Web masters were the reclusive rumpled souls who put up the first Web pages and managed their content like graphic designers and newsletter editors in cyberspace.

Today Web site manager and Web developer occupy two of the top 10 …

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Publication information: Article title: Web Master Field Hits New Heights Demand Grows for Changing Internet Career. Contributors: Culloton, Dan - Author. Newspaper title: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL). Publication date: April 11, 1999. Page number: 1. © 2009 Paddock Publications. COPYRIGHT 1999 Gale Group.

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