Heather,
Speaking in general terms, what makes a museum website good is what makes
any website good: ease of use. Can visitors find the information they are
looking for? Are the museum's address, directions, and hours of operation
one of the first things users see -- since it's one of the first things most
people are looking for? Do they have to click through three or four times to
find things or is the information readily accessible by multilpe buttons and
mulitlevel menus? Broken links, missing images, and too much Flash can all
be problems.
The annual Museums and the Web Conference sponsors a "Best of the Web"
contest each year. The 2007 winners can be found at
http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/best/index.html . Past winners are also
available by perusing through the website.
Happy Holidays,
Heather McClenahan, museum assistant/web master
Los Alamos Historical Society
http://www.losalamoshistory.org
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P.O. Box 43
1921 Juniper St.
Los Alamos, NM 87544
505-662-6272 (office)
505-470-2912 (cell)
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From: "Heather Getson" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 8:26 AM
Subject: [MUSEUM-L] Museum Websites
Hello Everyone,
We'd appreciate information about Museum websites.
Specifically, could you tell us what Museum sites are the "best", in your
opinion? What makes them the best?
Have you had feed-back from visitors or potential visitors, in terms of what
they found most interesting on your own websites? What works best for them?
Thank you,
Heather
Heather-Anne Getson
Historian, Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic
Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
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http://fisheries.museum.gov.ns.ca
902.634.4794 ext.230
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