Your Author Website’s Administrator: Should It Be You? | Web Design Relief

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Your Author Website’s Administrator: Should It Be You? | Web Design Relief

Every website needs an administrator assigned to perform necessary maintenance, implement security measures, create backups, and deal with functionality problems. While the website’s administrator role initially defaults to the person creating the account, it does take up time and requires some technical know-how—which can be intimidating for diehard digiphobes. At Web Design Relief, our tech experts know that being a website’s administrator isn’t for everyone. Here’s how to determine if you have what it takes to be your author website’s administrator.

Should You Be Your Author Website’s Administrator?

The administrator is responsible for all the tasks that keep a website performing at its best:

  • Makes changes to the theme, design, and layout of the web pages
  • Adds or removes other users
  • Regularly updates the website software
  • Inserts or deletes website content
  • Installs or uninstalls plugins and maintains them
  • Edits core files
  • Monitors website security

Skills Your Website’s Administrator Should Have

Familiar with the back end of your website: The back end of a website acts as a control panel that modifies everything users will see on the front end. You can add new content, update user settings, install plugins, and do just about everything else from your back-end user panel. It’s important to be comfortable with the different functions and features behind the scenes of your author website if you want to be an administrator.

Able to troubleshoot problems: For the administrator, there is no lifeboat or escape pod to help you should a website emergency arise. You have to know what to do if your website goes down or if an update suddenly makes your plugins stop working. While there are technical support options available, it is still the administrator’s responsibility to identify and fix any issues.

Capable of evaluating security risks: If something looks like trouble (like a phishing attack, for example), the website administrator must respond quickly and appropriately. This means monitoring any spam coming into the website through forms and comments to prevent the website from becoming compromised. It also means keeping the website updated and CAPTCHA-protected to limit the risk of hacking. Keep your website visitors safer with these tools!

Adept at time management: It’s essential that the website administrator checks at least once a day—if not more often—to confirm the website is online, operational, and performing properly.

Know basic code: A good website administrator knows a <h1> from a <p> and why it matters. Being able to work with basic HTML code will allow you to update your own author website and fix persistent issues, especially with text.

If you’re confident in your ability to work with technology, you can be a successful website administrator once you’re familiar with the back-end elements of your author website. But if you don’t have the time necessary to monitor the website or the tech savvy to deal with the intricacies of maintenance and security, you might feel better putting your author website administrative duties into the hands of a professional.

With Web Design Relief’s hosting care package, our experts will regularly back up your author website, install updates, monitor performance, and more! And you can spend your time writing instead of coding.

 

Question: If you’re the administrator of your author website, what issues have you encountered?

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