> I would like to hear from people at small to medium-sized museums
> about how
> their museums handle the creation and maintenance of the museum web site.
> Did you contract the actual design out to someone else and
> provide them with
> the text and images and updates? Did you contract for the original design
> and then start doing the updates yourself? Or is someone on staff
> responsible for the actual web site creation and maintenance?

We were fortunate enough to have a board member (and retired Microsoft
employee) volunteer to create a web site for us. He started about a year
ago, and with the true technologists fervor, has become obsessed with
placing as much information and resources as possible on the web site. I
would estimate that he spends anywhere from 5-10 hours a week working on the
site. The results are a very thorough, searchable site, which provides a lot
of data for researchers. We have had less-than-favorable comments by some
graphic designers, though. :) Hard to look a gift horse in the mouth.

If we had not had a volunteer come to the fore and decide that we need a web
site, we probably would not have created one. It would have been placed on
the long list of things that I should, in a perfect world, be able to
accomplish and we would have wound up with a one-page site giivng location
and contact information, and not much else.

Another option might be trying to find a student willing to create a web
page as an internship or school project.

Erica S. Maniez
Museum Director, Issaquah Historical Society
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www.issaquahhistory.org

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