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Skills and responsibilities

Archive - Originally posted on "The Horse's Mouth" - 2004-08-22 06:48:11 - Graham Ellis

Putting a web application together? You need a whole lot of skills:
* You need some HTML skills to write the page
* You need programming skills to write the dynamic content handler
* You need data management skills to organise your data
* You need some human engineering skills to help your visitors through
* You need systems analysis skills to plan the application
* You need political skills to keep everyone concerned happy and onside with what you're doing
* it helps if you know a bit about the subject of the web application too.

Responsible for the use of that web application? Then you need to consider:
* Security against accidents, hackers, spammers and competitors
* Integrity of Data and keeping it up to date
* Continued availability and reliability
* Visibility to search engines
* Ongoing quality of content
* User support / handling of queries and problems
* Conformance to Disability Discrimination legislation (UK)
* Conformance to Data Protection Act and privacy issues (UK)
* Conformance to Copyright and trade mark laws (UK)
* Other legal restrictions on what you may publish (e.g. decency laws - UK)
* Where appropriate, access under freedom of information (UK)