Re: CMS

2005-05-27 Thread amacdonald
The one thing to keep in mind when choosing a CMS (or for that matter whether you actually need one) is whether you want to manage the content for your site or manage the content on your site  The difference is subtle but important.  The first thing you should decide is whether you even need a CMS.

Re: Standards for Digital Masters

2004-10-13 Thread amacdonald
You may also want to look at this site : http://www.scantips.com/ It details all the theory behind scanning, not only what can be done - but what a scanner cannot do.  You may also want to look into software that gives you the flexibility to do what you need.  We use a program called VueScan (htt

Web standards and museum sites Summary

2004-01-09 Thread amacdonald
As the discussion for web sites based on standards seems to be falling into the usual web based battle about why should we use standards I thought it might be useful to sum up the reason why using standards based web design is a good idea as well as point out where these standards fail.

Re: Web standards and museum sites

2004-01-07 Thread amacdonald
Hello All, We are currently in the midst of redesigning our sites in XHTML/CSS and so far no tables. We are doing this for two reasons. First, we felt that as a national institution we need to be able to get our information and collection out to the world no matter where they are or