or cause Creating awareness in the community about a topic Learning a publishing skills as a hobby, or as a profession This list is not exhaustive; there are thousands of good reasons why you should learn web publishing and thousands of ways in which you can benefit from the experience. Some people have an unfulfilled creative urge to develop content for others, and some people just want to develop new skills which may help them in their career. TIP - Each lesson will contain a series of tasks. They're not very hard, so give them ago. Attempting them will make it easier to learn web publishing, because you'll be actively participating, and not just passively reading. Task One - Write on a new sheet of paper two or three reasons why you would like to learn how to create web pages. File this sheet of paper away, and see if you have meet the objectives by the end of these lessons. What does a webmaster do? The title webmaster is claimed by so many, that its difficult to actually quantify what makes a webmaster. Some people create a homepage, describing their hobbies and interests - does this make them a webmaster? Some people create massive sites, with tens or even hundreds of pages, so should it be reserved for the professionals? My definition of a webmaster is simple - one who creates or maintains a web site. A web site is not a single page, it is a collection of