Website Automation / Time Savers for the Freesite Webmaster
"Hi this is Old Tom, you're listening to Webmaster Class Newbie Radio from
MaxCash.com."
Get yourself organized.
- VNWR's Newbie Quick Start Guide It's not just for newbies! Do you have a solid foundation, and room for expansion?
- Use the tools that make sense to you, to keep track of things. Some use a spread sheet.
I use an index card file (you know, actual 3x5 cards in a plastic box) for server logins.
Voltar keeps a chart on notebook paper. Jojasa and I keep shared info on a private password
protected web page.
- KISS - Keep It Simple! Simpler is better, more reliable, less likely to cause a problem.
If you don't understand it, you probably shouldn't do it! Use common sense.
Do it by hand first.
- Never NEVER try to automate something unless you've done it by hand
first.
- What automation gives you the biggest "bang for the buck"? What provides
the biggest savings of your time, the best revenue, or allows you to do something you can't
really do by hand?
- Is it reliable, or will you waste more time just trying to figure
out what just happened?
Automation tools
- My particular approach (and bias) is to automate or "assist" with tasks
that we're already doing by hand.
- What do you, as a webmaster, do? Which of those tasks can you automate? Which of those
tasks should you not automate?
- There are tools out there for just about every aspect
of your business. The key, then, is getting the most result from your effort. What is the
value of your time? What is the value of cutting a 20-hour task down to a 2-hour task?
- Once you know why you're automating, or investing in a tool, you'll know how
(or at least why) to make the most use of it.
Disaster Recovery
- How quickly can you be back on the air?
- Can you deal with a trashed database?
- What if the server gets hacked?
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Last modified: Mon Jan 27 19:09:09 CST 2003