The Web Managers Podcast
The Web Managers Podcast is the audio field guide for accidental web managers: the office managers, founders, nonprofit volunteers, and career-changers who became responsible for an organization's web presence because they were "good with technology." Each episode takes one domain of the job, defines it in plain English, names the honest tradeoffs, and ends with one task the listener can finish before the end of the day. Hosted by Bryan C. Mills, working consultant and author of Strategic Web Management, the show extends the book's promise: encouragement on every page, and a path of action to go with it. No code required; no hype included.
Episodes
This year, host Bryan Mills has cleaned up multiple hacked WordPress sites, including one where a single outdated plugin handed the attacker a file manager: open any file, write straight to the database. Here's what the attacker knew about that organization before striking: nothing. A bot read a version number, and that was the whole crime.
This episode is security with no dread and no jargon: four ordinary enemies, one afternoon of...
Last year, host Bryan Mills audited a client site whose homepage still read, "Coming in 2008. We'll see you soon!" On another project he found a pitch page for a co-founder who had left roughly fifteen years earlier, still pulling traffic, because Google never stopped sending people there. Both pages were live, working, and lying, and nobody knew.
Content is not a launch event; it's a garden, and this episode gives the aging an owne...
Around 2008, host Bryan Mills sat down with a nonprofit whose own board member could not use the organization's website: a screen reader met a site with no image descriptions and no way to reach the menu without a mouse. Nobody had locked him out on purpose. Nobody ever does it on purpose.
That project is where accessibility stopped being a compliance word and became a person, and it drives this episode's claim: design, mobile, and ...
Most "platform problems" are content, maintenance, or strategy problems wearing a disguise, and switching platforms moves the disguise, not the problem. The stale pages board the moving truck; the invoice runs four figures.
Host Bryan Mills speaks from experience: he built more than five hundred client sites on a platform that no longer exists, and when Adobe shut down Business Catalyst, not one of his clients suffered an outage, be...
How long can your website be down before it starts to cost you money? That question, not the feature list, is how to shop for hosting, and its twin is harder: if the site vanished this afternoon, how much recent work could you afford to lose forever?
Host Bryan Mills walks the building your website actually lives in. First, the hosting landscape translated from marketing into situations: shared hosting as the apartment building, VPS...
A mismanaged domain takes down more than your website. It takes down your email, your trust signals, and your organization's public name, all in one stroke, and it can hand all three to a stranger. Host Bryan Mills has watched a Fortune 500 company spend thousands buying back its own name over a fifteen-dollar renewal.
This episode makes you a competent holder of your organization's most important lease. Bryan separates the three di...
Somewhere in your organization right now, there is a login nobody remembers creating, a renewal charging a card nobody reconciles, and a website everyone depends on and no one officially owns. If you recently became the person responsible for all of it, this episode is your front door.
Host Bryan Mills opens Season 1 by introducing the four people this show is for: the Inheritor who got the website when someone left, the Founder doi...
"You're good with technology, right?" Six words in a hallway, and suddenly the website, the email, the domain, and a dozen mystery logins are yours. This episode is the job description nobody wrote down.
Host Bryan Mills explains why the role lands on people by accident, and why the accidental path is the normal one: digital responsibilities pile up in organizations like boxes in a storage closet, and when the one person who underst...
Nearly every web account audit finds the same three things: an orphaned account, an unknown auto-renewal, and an ex-employee who still has admin access. Every organization believes it's the exception. Almost none of them are.
This is the episode host Bryan Mills would have you hear first: the web account inventory, the single register of everything your organization owns, rents, or depends on online, and the foundation every later e...
Somewhere in your organization right now, there is a login nobody remembers creating, a renewal quietly charging a card nobody reconciles, and a website everyone depends on and no one officially owns. If that sounds familiar, this show is for you.
The Web Managers Podcast is the plain-English show for everyone who became responsible for their organization's web presence because they were "good with technology": the office manager wh...
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