The Purposeful Techie

technology for small museums

Sell Memberships, Collect Donations Online

Giving potential donors and visitors the opportunity to contribute, buy a membership, or buy event tickets online is something that is simple to implement, if you know.  Adding an online store is not much more difficult, although it does require some extra thought.
Online payment options are something seemingly foreign to most small museums.  If you [...]

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Add a Calendar to Your NonProfit Website

It seems that a calendar is a must for the website of any group who has events, but how does one accomplish such a project?
If you’re coding the website yourself in HTML or some-such, a simple list of events is pretty easy. If you have a lot of events, this can get tedious pretty [...]

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Why are You Still Using Internet Explorer?

More than useful information, this is simply me venting my confusion, and hoping someone has answers.
Why are people still using Internet Explorer?
Firefox has been around for quite awhile now, and seems to be gaining a lot of acceptance.  Google has also launched their own browser (I don’t see the need, but okay), and there are, [...]

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Requesting info? Ask nicely

If you are going to be implementing any type of form on your organization’s website where you’ll be asking for information, remember to ask nicely.  Most people know why you want/need the information you’re requesting.
Creating such forms is rather easy (especially if you’re using a CMS — the Webform module for Drupal, particularly can [...]

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Online Exhibits

This is a bit beyond basic, but I came across a great article on open source software from the NAME Journal, and couldn’t resist adding my two cents:
If you’re hoping to build an online exhibit, there are two stand-by methods for doing this:  coding the thing in HTML as you would anything else on the [...]

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