Beginner Case study: How Music@Malling built a year‑round digital presence
Discover how Music@Malling improved its website, refreshed it’s approach to audience data collection, and expanded its social and newsletter reach with support from the Digital Culture Network – helping attract new audiences and build long-term digital impact.
Beginner Webinar recording – Website design essentials to boost engagement and conversion
This free webinar will teach you essential design techniques to turbo-charge visitor engagement on your website.
In this episode, James talks to Monica Thomas, Tech Champion for SEO and Marketing, about how search engine optimisation is evolving in the age of AI and what charities need to know about Google Ad Grants.
Beginner 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 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 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 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...
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ICO advice about website transparency (cookies and privacy notices)Information from the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) for small organisations about why you need a privacy notice and how to create one.
Beginner 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
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hotjar: Performing a successful CRO audit of your websiteThis guide will take you through a step-by-step process to help you conduct a customer-centric CRO audit that gets results.
Beginner 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 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 How to write a landing page headline that converts
Writing a landing page headline in 6 to 12 words is not as simple as it first appears but there is a straightforward process you can follow to move from a poor-performing headline, to one that performs. Read on to learn about the key steps you should consider following to optimise your landing page headlines.
