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 [log in to unmask] P.O. Box 43 1921 Juniper St. Los Alamos, NM 87544 505-662-6272 (office) 505-470-2912 (cell) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Heather Getson" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> 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 [log in to unmask] http://fisheries.museum.gov.ns.ca 902.634.4794 ext.230 ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes). ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).