Websites

Whether you're creating a brand-new site or reviewing your existing web presence completely, here are some recommendations for making your website as effective as possible.

Tree testing is a quick and easy way to test the effectiveness of your website navigation. It’s a technique that can also test a new website structure you may be planning. A tree test can confirm how easy (or difficult!) it is to find important information on your website. This article by Andy explains it all.

This article is aimed at anyone who wants to improve the effectiveness of their website and improve the experience of their website visitors.

Could your website be working harder for you? Our checklist will help you assess and improve your activities

Emma Roberts shares her top tips for embracing eCommerce and using a streamlined customer journey to generate more sales.

WordPress is the world’s most popular website platform, and is widely used by creative and cultural organisations. This article gives you 10 top tips to speed up your website.

This article on sustainable websites provides a checklist of 10 things you or your organisation can do to reduce a digital carbon footprint.

In this tea break chat, we asked some of our Tech Champions about their early experiences working in digital, by the end, you might realise that you are not alone when it comes to learning the digital ropes.  

Are you a creative or cultural organisations looking to redesign or improve your website? This article helps you source and select the best supplier to do the job.

Learn how the first 'Tech Champion’s Choice' Winners - LeftCoast - are embedding digital technology & skills development into the heart of their operations to build robust a foundation for a sustainable future.

Raising2Children is an online resource for parents, children, young people, and colleagues that supports families. Raising2Children create resources that bring together evidence-based research on child development and therapeutic tools using the arts. Click here to find out how Cultural Digital Network helped rework their website.

Higher Rhythm Ltd is a not-for-profit organisation based in Yorkshire, providing music and media industry services and opportunities across the Yorkshire region. Click here to find out how the Digital Culture Network's Roberta Beattie supported their CEO, Steven Mundin, in redefining the organisation's vision for its new website.

Mythstories is a museum based in Shrewsbury that holds a collection of storytelling artefacts and a library of folktales. For over 20 years the museum has organised funded projects with storytelling at their heart. Much of their work is out of doors, much is with young people – encouraging them to explore the oral heritage and become young storytellers. Read on to find out how the Digital Culture Network helped rework their website.

Open Sky Theatre is a small theatre company with big ideas based in rural Herefordshire, combining new writing with physical and digital theatre to tell powerful, moving stories based on real world events. Read on to find out how the Digital Culture Network supported Open Sky's Digital Director, Lisle Turner, in reimagining the organisation's digital strategy. Case study from December 2020.

Impact Dance's main focus is to empower young people of diverse backgrounds through hip-hop dance training, mentoring, and national and international performances. Marketing and Communications Officer Clara Cowen talks us through how the London theatre company was supported by the Digital Culture Network to develop its website.

Launched in 2006, China Plate are an independent theatre studio that work with artists, venues and festivals to develop, make and present engaging, entertaining and accessible new work. Read on to find out how the Digital Culture Network supported China Plate with the redevelopment of their website.

This guide details the steps you can take to design your website.

Writing a brief for a web design project can be a daunting task. This article helps you break down your project and navigate this process.

A template that you can use as the basis to create your own website brief for web design agencies.

SSL Security certificates play an important role in protecting your website. So, what are they and how do you get the right one for your website? This article will tell you all you need to know.

Learn how to make different forms of digital content accessible to all audience members and what steps you can take to make the experience for your audience as good as it can be, to ensure their needs are accounted for on different platforms.

A webinar for creative and cultural organisations to learn how to perform a simple health check on their website to highlight improvements.

A webinar for creative and cultural organisations and individual practitioners to learn about website sustainability and how to reduce their digital carbon footprint.

A webinar for creative and cultural organisations or individual practitioners who are planning to redesign or improve their website in the next 12-24 months.

A webinar to help arts and culture organisations understand the principles of user experience (UX) and how to implement them on their websites.

A webinar for arts and culture organisations to learn how to navigate employing and working with the best freelancer for the job.

A webinar for arts and cultural organisations to learn how to plan a website content strategy which will allow them to engage new audiences, measure success and improve the quality of their site traffic.

A webinar for arts and culture organisations to learn how to utilise mobile marketing to increase awareness and improve engagement.

A webinar for arts and culture organisations to understand how their new or fledgling ticketing operation can help them grow.

Learn how a strong website content strategy will bring about the best results for your site.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops standards and guidelines to help everyone build a web based on the principles of accessibility, internationalization, privacy and security.