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Iain, Even if I had a team of 6 I could not keep up with the rate of content production by our staff, thus, I was forced to buy into the 'content managment system' thing very early. The cost of that was around 80k all in, and the cost of 3 FT staff per year is almost this much, so does follow Jakob's rule. However, that does not include the time and effort put in by 26 active contributors and another 20 less active ones via the CMS (the core team does not need to publish everything because page templates are controlled by the CMS and each area of the Museum has a publishing 'editor'). Cash cost is not a very realistic way of measuring the price of a website, as content is king and that requires concerted effort and 'buy in' from curators etc which is 'costly' to the museum. Templates are of course essential for any scaling of a website, but as above, even publishing must be devolved beyond a certain size of operation. I do realise we are pretty unique, but you could look at a local government offices for the same scale, and perhaps solutions that local govt. Museums could take advantage of, or even champion. cheers Mike | 1. The cash cost of maintaining your website may not be high but for a | 'medium sized' website (I can't quantify this unfortunately) the full | time staffing requirement could be 2-4 weeks per month. | 2. The cash cost of setting up the website may not be a good starting | point as you can actually set up a website very cheaply in cash terms. | 3, Use of a template based system (as with Lotus Notes) may allow | curators or admin staff to feed content in - an acting 'web controller' | should have responsibility for actually publishing the information to | the web. | | Iain | -- | Iain Watson | Senior Curator | Tyne and Wear Museums | Hancock Museum | Barras Bridge | Newcastle upon Tyne | NE2 4PT | | T. 0191 2226878 | F. 0191 2226753 | e. [log in to unmask] |