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7 Tips to Improve Webmaster Productivity
Rapid application and web site development. Increasing demand for web standards. New standards and technologies appear, grow, and morph together within shorter and shorter cycles. Webmasters must be more productive than ever.
These seven tips will help you become a more productive webmaster:
- The right tools
- The right environment
- Patterns
- Study
- Web communities
- Good work habits
- A life
1. Use the right tools
Webmasters can find plenty of excellent tools now to:
- design and develop faster
- meet standards
- reduce redundant tasks
- automate repetitive tasks
The old saying, "Use the right tool for the right job", remains true today. Invest time today in finding yourself the right tools for the jobs you do.
You have more choices than ever before.
The net houses a myriad of web developer software. Some of the best web development applications and tools are free or open-source. Yes, many excellent web design applications still cost, yet can be worth paying for.
Don't skimp.
Come up with creative ways to buy the software you need. When I started freelancing, my first client bought me Dreamweaver Ultradev and Fireworks (2 then 3 - back in the stone age of web design). I simply built the purchase into the up-front costs of the project, and convinced the client of the need. If you are a professional web designer, build the costs of new software into your next job.
A technical discussion of methodologies for choosing the right software:
