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Plan 

Select the Web Team 

Learn team roles 

Building a Web site involves a wide variety of disciplines editing, layout, graphics, 

programming and very few people are good at all of them. Also, many Web sites quickly 

grow beyond a size that one person can manage and maintain. That s why most Web sites 

are built by teams, rather than by a single person.  

A typical Web team includes these positions:  

Site Coordinator 

The Site Coordinator is responsible for organizing a site s content, developing a work 

plan, managing the site s construction, and keeping it consistent. Ideally, the Site 

Coordinator will have some Web publishing experience, but it s not necessary. Project 

management skills and the ability to organize information are more important.  

Site Builder(s) 

The Site Builder creates the site s pages and links them together. People who have worked 

on print publications often do well at site-building. It s good to have more than one Site 

Builder on a Web team because this distributes the workload and furnishes a backup. 

 Editor 

The Editor writes the site s text and edits it to be clear and concise. The Site Builders then 

incorporate the Editor s text into pages. Often the Site Coordinator and Editor are the 

same person. 

Graphic Designer 

The Graphic Designer creates the site s look and feel, and produces graphics for it. If your 

organization has an in-house graphics person who produces print graphics, this person 

can be trained to do Web graphics as well. 

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