week1-The Publishing Team & Web Team Roles

These two articles talk about the team itself and team members’ roles when we consider the Web is a certain kind of publishing medium. Like living in the society, everyone has to seek his/her own position. People in a website design team should find his/her own position. From head to bottom, from publisher to HTML coder, only when we operate every single part in the design process can we gather the best layout.

One of my favorite movie【The Butterfly Effect】talks about how every single piece affects the whole world. Indeed, we live in a world of division of professional labor. There is a Chinese saying goes as “You can break off a pair of chopsticks, but there is no way for breaking off ten pairs of chopsticks.” Also an English saying says “United, we stand; divided, we fall.” In the society which admires heroism, I think it’s quite good to learn the spirit of cooperation.

I worked as an editor in a TV news station where a great place for people to learn cooperation is. Media is a refined industry which shows a great division of labor. Because no one is perfect, thus we need experts. The Internet successfully gathers people with different professional specialties. After integrating these special skills, people could have better websites which come from more diversity.

Last part I want to talk about the business model. When the word “design” comes to our minds, we might think about the fine art or sophisticated personality, which sometimes means “art is art, never mention about the money.” But in nowadays, division of labor guarantees designers, engineers and market managers could live good lives and focus only on their strengths. Operate with this way, I think people could have better and better service from Internet surfing.