Hi Steve
I think you might enjoy looking at www.adaptivetechnologies.com.
The company works mainly with cultural sector clients, is used to
aiding smaller institutions, can deliver all the necessary technologies
to enable you to update your site quickly, easily and cheaply (and it
is wholly owned by a charity that's busy developing a museum in
Brighton.
If you'd like to talk through the options we offer call 01273 728128
and ask for Nick.
Nest
Nick Tyson
Curator
The Regency Town House Museum
13 Brunswick Square
Hove
BN3 1EH
UK
Chief Executive
Adaptive Technologies Limited
C/O The Regency Town House
Tel: +44 (0) 1273 728128
Fax: +44 (0) 1273 206306
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On 12 Jul 2004, at 15:28, Steve Gardam wrote:
> Hello everybody
>
> Can anyone - particularly from a small-medium size museum, either in or
> outside of London, offer some advice on hosting of a museum website. We
> would like to hear from you if you have experience of having your site
> hosted by a commercial site web server company. Do you recommend it?
> What
> are the downsides? Are there any companies that specialise in this for
> the
> museum sector?
>
> A bit of background:
> The Postal Heritage Trust was set up in April 2004 to care for and
> develop
> the archive and object collections of Royal Mail. Previously, a unit of
> Royal Mail itself had done this work, but the Trust was deliberately
> created to be a separate entity. However, we are still linked,
> including
> our webpages being part of the Royal Mail group site.
>
> What we want to do is to be able to update our webpages frequently and
> quickly - simple stuff like changing text and images, adding a few
> pages if
> need be. Doing this within Royal Mail is proving too expensive and
> complicated, so we want to know if it's feasible to take our pages to
> be
> hosted elsewhere.
>
> Any suggestions as to likely cost, pitfalls to avoid and companies to
> try
> are all welcome.
>
> Please reply off list to [log in to unmask] If there is anyone
> who
> wants me to provide a digest of responses please let me know.
>
> Thanks
>
> Steve
>
> PS I'll be posting this to a couple of other listerves so apologies if
> you
> get this more than once.
>
> Steve Gardam
> Learning and Outreach Officer
> Postal Heritage Trust
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