INSIGHT: On Art & History Websites
Your latest museum exhibition took months, maybe years, to plan. It may have come with a hefty price tag which, thankfully, enough businesses, individual donors,…
Museums are all about classification. The rise of the modern museum was highly influenced by the uber classifier himself, Francis Bacon. Whether you visit a…
I spend the better part of my days in WordPress, building prototypes, structuring content, and architecting the arrangement of museum websites. I recently discovered a…
No matter how you slice it, museum websites are complex technological systems. Today’s website platforms offer amazing capabilities such as easy content updating, ecommerce, searching…
Our previous article Anatomy of Museum Information Architecture analyzed some of the challenges of organizing content rich websites. Because museum websites are so chock full…
It is often said that “people don’t read on the web.” Not true. You’re reading these words after all. What is true is that people…
Imagine squashing a glorious Rembrant into a matchbox. A horrible thought! But when we display works of art in tiny rectangles on a website, we…
We’ve written previously about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for museums. We’ve also produced a video about the “long-tail” effect and how museums in particular can…
Here at Cuberis we’re big fans and practitioners of WordPress. But admittedly, one of its weaknesses is how hard it can be to manage images…
Museums are chock full of stories. Every object in your collection is there for a reason. There is so much more to tell than can…
Museum websites are chock full of content. Not only do they offer standard business information such as location, contact, and hours of operation, but they…
INSIGHT: On Art & History Websites
Imagine squashing a glorious Rembrant into a matchbox. A horrible thought! But when we display works of art in tiny rectangles on a website, we…
We’ve written previously about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for museums. We’ve also produced a video about the “long-tail” effect and how museums in particular can…
Here at Cuberis we’re big fans and practitioners of WordPress. But admittedly, one of its weaknesses is how hard it can be to manage images…
Museums are chock full of stories. Every object in your collection is there for a reason. There is so much more to tell than can…
Museum websites are chock full of content. Not only do they offer standard business information such as location, contact, and hours of operation, but they…
One of the guiding principles we followed, in developing the new Cuberis framework for museum websites, is a focus on Low-Code/No-Code solutions. Over the past…
Does your museum’s website allow you to nimbly adapt to changing circumstances? Can you easily spin up a digital exhibit? Are you able to cross…
When museums across the country had to close their doors during the coronavirus crisis, we saw a renewed emphasis on digital content as a way…
When museums had to close during the COVID-19 pandemic, many found new and innovative ways to keep their missions alive online. Whether with custom microsites…
One of the silver linings of the 2020 shutdowns was watching how clever museum professionals rose to the challenge of keeping their missions alive and…
During the COVID-19 shutdowns, museums scrambled to find ways to continue their missions while physical access to their collections, resources, and programs were closed. Many…
NOTE: Since this article was publish Google announced that it would be sunsetting their Tour Creator. Here is a link to a resource listing alternatives…
How do you keep your school-aged children engaged with learning while schools are closed? This is the question millions of parents around the world are…
Hello again from Cuberis. Our “INSIGHT: On Art & History Websites” newsletter has been on a bit of a hiatus for the past several months,…
