Website Manager's Handbook

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• Chapter 1: Website Management Model (full) (pdf 340kb)
• Chapter 2: Website Maintenance (abridged) (pdf 570kb)
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The Website Manager's Handbook (by Shane Diffily) helps you to develop and manage a successful website or intranet.

Whether you are a Designer, Developer or General Manager, it provides all the knowledge you need to oversee any aspect of site administration. As a result, you can be sure that the decisions you make are based on the best available information.

"Very clear and well written...genuinely useful"

The Website Manager's Handbook is described by leading web-commentator Gerry McGovern as "very clear and well written...a lot of practical depth...I'm sure that someone managing, particularly a large website, would find it genuinely useful". It has also received many other positive reviews from industry journals, university lecturers and website managers. (See side menu for more.)

A practical manual & work-aid

The Website Manager's Handbook is written in the form of a 'manual'. This means you an dip in-and-out in order to get the advice you need, when you need it. The aim is to equip you a practical model for the management and maintenance of your site.

Among the issues explored in this book are:

A system for managing maintenance, design & development.
Recommendations for structuring a web team.
Guidelines for allocating roles & responsibilities.
Advice on selecting web tools & services that are appropriate for you.
An appraisal of Web 2.0 and its effect on site management.

See for yourself

Download Chapter 1: Website Management Model (pdf 340kb) to learn a schema for site administration.
Download Chapter 2: Website Maintenance (abridged) (pdf 570kb) to find out how to supervise the activities of site maintenance.

You will then see why The Website Manager's Handbook is now used by hundreds of web professionals to support the administration of their sites.

Update Jan 2008: Book for free!

In Xmas 2007, I pledged to make an abridged version of The Website Manager's Handbook available to all for free. So far, Chapters 1 and 2 have been done. Find out why I am doing this and when the rest will be finished.

Over 6,300 downloads!
Over 430 books sold worldwide.
3 most recent sales to:
• Ronan in Galway, 4-July
• Frederic in Spain, 2-July
• Bita in Iran, 28-June

Readers' Comments
"Very clear and well written...a lot of practical depth"
Gerry McGovern (author)

"A sound, all-round framework that will help many organisations...to establish a better management structure."
Inside Knowledge Magazine

"A very useful book...does address a serious gap in the market"
Les Morss (lecturer)

"Excellent. Very comprehensive"
Anthony Hobbs (lecturer)

University Reading Lists
Now on the reading list for web studies at University of the West of England, University College Cork, Napier University (Edinburgh), National College of Art & Design (Dublin) and Dublin City University.

Educators!
Buy a $100 "Educator's Licence" and receive a PDF copy of the book for distribution to your students.
(Valid for 25 students for 1 year).