Andy Leitch

Beginner Read Website Builder Platforms

Having a credible, impactful online presence is essential for creative and cultural organisations and individual artists alike. Fortunately, building a website has never been easier thanks to modern website builder platforms like Wix, Squarespace, and Weebly. In this resource, Andy explains all you need to know to get started with website builder platforms and choosing the right one for you.

Beginner Read Digital Culture Podcast episode #6 – Helping you build a fantastic website with Andy Leitch

The Digital Culture Podcast is for creative and cultural professionals to get to know the Digital Culture Network team, learn how we can help your digital skills development, and find out what’s happening across the sector. In this episode, James Akers interviews Andy Leitch, the Digital Culture Network Tech Champion for Websites.

Beginner Read Webinar recording – How to create a simple website on a shoestring!

A webinar for artists and smaller arts and culture organisations with limited budgets who need a simple website.

Beginner Read Looking after your website with limited resources

This article has been written for organisations and individuals who don’t have a dedicated marketing or communications team (or budget). It’s aimed at people responsible for looking after their website but do not usually have the time needed. They probably have a range of other duties, and their website can get overlooked. Sound familiar? Then read on...

Beginner Read Webinar recording – How to do a simple health check on your website

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

Beginner Read Testing and improving your website navigation

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.

Beginner Read WC3 Web Content Guidelines

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.

Beginner Read Testing and improving your website structure and content

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

Beginner Read Webinar recording – How to make your website more sustainable

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

Beginner Read 10 ways to speed up your WordPress website

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.

Beginner Read Digital Culture Award Winner Case Study: LeftCoast

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.

Beginner Read 10 ways to make your website more sustainable

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

Beginner Read Jargon Busters

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.  

Beginner Read Finding the best supplier for your website project

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.

Beginner Read Case Study: Raising2Children

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.

Beginner Read Webinar recording: Finding the best supplier for your website project

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.

Beginner Read Webinar recording – Getting to grips with website user experience (UX)

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

Beginner Read A simple guide to the website design process

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