Under the Gun: Meet Your Deadline

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Under the Gun

by Rebecca Rohan
Meet Your Deadline (instead of the executioner)
Your boss would go to jail for giving you the lash or making you walk the plank, but he thinks nothing of asking you to put up a Web site in less time than he gave you for your last vacation. Maybe he wants those 80,000 old files on the intranet--by next week.
Demands for new and improved sites aren't the only way the boss can make the burden of Sisyphus look like a bicyclist's day-pack. What if there's no time in your schedule for maintaining the Web site once it's up? Do you check for dead links on your break instead of going to Starbucks for that buzzing cup? What do you do, start lugging a thermos to work, and drink your coffee through a straw while you type on a different keyboard with each hand?
There's no need to go postal. You can work longer or work smarter. Web Developer® is here with tips that work from those who've managed to work smarter. Whatever the boss needs, there's no time to waste, so here's some advice from top Webmasters.
Let Contributors Put Up Their Own Content
Employers from all over the country sign in to America's Job Bank to enter their current job offerings remotely. Peggy Golz, Employment Systems Field Support Analyst for America's Job Bank, says that once employers are screened, they can put up their own listings by entering a login and password and typing into an online form. If employers don't remove listings in 30 days, the system purges them. That's the kind of trick that allows four people to run a constantly changing national job site that received 8,514,267 hits last month.
Contributors to Catholic Online can do a lot more than type into a form. The 30,000 page site hosts between 50 and 80 Catholic organizations which have access to their own sites on the server. Michael Galloway, one of the Webmasters and president of Catholic Online, says these organizations include daily newspapers that change their pages several times a day. When the hosted sites upload pages via FTP, the pages are immediately live on the Net. Businesses can follow this model by making departments and branches completely responsible for their own content and presentation.
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