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## Designing a Website

What is a Webmaster?

A Webmaster is the administrator of a website. 
 
Generally, a webmaster's responsibilities include:

- Register and maintain the website's domain name
- Design the website, or supervise page designers and programmers
- Monitor the size of the site to ensure allowed bandwidth and disk space is not exceeded
- Plan future growth, requirements and limitations of the website