Website Design for Small Museums Workshop at UMass Amherst
Bob Judge
From: Parsons, Bonnie [mailto:BPar...@PVPC.ORG]
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 9:08 AM
To: BobJ...@comcast.net
Subject: FW: Website Design for Small Museums Workshop at UMass Amherst
Hi Bob,
You and the firehouse museum came to mind for this workshop. If not
you, maybe you could pass it on to someone from the group who might want
to get this training...
I hope you're well and happy.
Best,
Bonnie
-----Original Message-----
From: Marla R. Miller [mailto:mmi...@history.umass.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 11:32 AM
To: Parsons, Bonnie
Subject: Fwd: Website Design for Small Museums Workshop at UMass Amherst
Hey Bonnie,
We're partnering with the Pioneer Valley History Museum on this website
workshop for small museums, and have a couple of open spots....I thought you
might know
of some sites outside the Valley that might to get in on what I think will
be a
pretty valuable workshop -- feel free to forward!
Marla
----- Forwarded message from localhistory <localh...@mfh.org> -----
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:17:31 -0400
From: localhistory <localh...@mfh.org>
Reply-To: localhistory <localh...@mfh.org>
Subject: Website Design for Small Museums Workshop at UMass Amherst
To: localhistory <localh...@mfh.org>
The Public History program at UMass-Amherst is co-sponsoring a hands-on
workshop in web design for small museums with the Pioneer Valley History
Network;
it's a daylong event in the Calipari Room, Du Bois Library, on the Umass
campus, on
Saturday, April 19th (parking is free and widely available). The presenters
are Juliet Jacobsen, who designed the 1704 site and will lead the morning
discussion about how to plan towards establishing a website, and Mary Knight
of the Hampshire Educational Collaborative, who will walk people through
using "off the
shelf" software to get started. Here's the description:
Morning Session--Design and Planning
In this session, we'll explore Website design and content organization.
We'll start by viewing some websites from historical societies and small
History museums and discussing what works well and what doesn't. Our
discussion
Will explore design issues such as look and feel, color, typography,
imagery,
and how to create a visual tone. Then, we'll learn about how to organize a
site
by making some simple flow charts, and discussing navigation/organization.
If attendees can come to the workshop with some content prepared ahead of
time, it would allow us to make flow charts that we'll be able to use in the
afternoon session. We'll also discuss databases and artifact access and
think
about how a visitor to your site might search your collection. We'll discuss
page
layout, and look into particular features such as how to display manuscripts
and
artifacts (zooming, transcriptions, paging through multi-page documents,
showing details of objects, etc)
Afternoon Session--Beginning to Build
In this part of the workshop, we'd like to help you learn how to build
web pages using a simple-to-use online content management system. We'll
begin by
gaining a basic overview of how the Web works. Next, using the browser-based
content management system, each attendee will set up a basic site, choose a
template and layout and enter information about their site. We'll learn
about
creating new content (graphics, links and text) and we'll make some linked
pages,
that we can view online in different browsers. We'll also begin to build an
artifact
database by each entering information about an artifact that will form
the beginning of a shared database. The pages you make can form the kernal
for your site that you can develop and refine on your own.
There will be a noontime break during which participants can find lunch
in one of several places in the student center. The cost of the workshop is
$55; checks should be made out to Historic Deerfield, with PVHN in the memo
line. To indicate your interest in registering, please email me at the
address
below.
Cheers,
Marla R. Miller
History Department, Herter Hall
University of Massachusetts
161 Presidents Drive
Amherst, MA 01003-9312
413-545-4256 (voice); 413-545-6137 (fax)
mmi...@history.umass.edu
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