October 14th, 2011

We get crafty with new museum website

We have been working closely with Cheltenham Arts & Crafts museum over the last few months to design and build a fresh new website for them. This website was required to be easy to navigate and sleek, in order to showcase the impressive collection of Arts & Crafts wares and also provide engaging content front end.

The homepage of the website is designed in order to optimise the interactivity of the museum; featuring a live Twitter feed, a gallery powered by Flickr and a link to the Facebook page. In addition the collections can be viewed via a link to the popular Adlib database, tailor made by our design team. These features give a friendly persona to the site, which is important for a public-driven establishment.

As well as the Arts & Crafts site, we have also redeveloped the Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum website, to coincide with the museum’s own redesign. This is highly important, as the Museum is currently undergoing a huge, exciting redevelopment ‘Building for a new future’ and is not currently open to the public.

The Art Gallery & Museum website will be key whilst the building work is being completed, as potential visitors will use the site to stay up to date with the progress of the build, search the online collections and view the ‘Off the wall, On the move‘ microsite. Developments to the website also include webcam integration and interactive 3d imagery.

New Exhibitions and Events brochures have also been created, offering key information about the build and the core elements to the ‘Off the wall, On the move’ off-site programme.

Tags: cheltenham art gallery, content management system, print design, website design

Categories: exhibition material, Miscellaneous, web