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Empower the future with digital

Brighton-based digital marketing agency Grandad takes us through the importance of innovation and risk-taking to empower individual organisations and the sector.


Published: 2023 | Resource type: Article

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Five questions to ask before you automate something on your website

Andrew Ladd, Senior Product Strategist at Ten4 Design, helps us navigate the key questions we need to answer before automating our websites.


Published: 2023 | Resource type: Article

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The content lifecycle: caring for your content

Zosia Poulter, Content Strategist at Substrakt explains the fundamental steps of a content production process for your website and how to tailor it to your organisation.


Published: 2023 | Resource type: Article

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How to write the perfect web brief – arts and culture edition

The full-service, digital solutions provider Splitpixel takes us through the key elements that make the perfect web brief.  Based on over 15 years experience delivering websites for arts and cultural organisations of all sizes this guide and template helps ensure you get the site you need and want and reduces what can often be a fraught ... Read more


Published: 2023 | Resource type: Guide/tools

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Audiences at the Heart: Supercool collection

Supercool love crafting websites and digital strategies that make life easier for arts, cultural and heritage organisations – and your audiences. They also love sharing – whether that’s practical tips to improve digital accessibility, things they’ve learnt about how to be more digitally sustainable, or just generally useful/interesting sector-related things. Here’s a treasure-trove of free ... Read more


Published: 2023 | Resource type: Guide/tools

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Audiences at the Heart: Substrakt collection

A collection of resources by Substrakt, from showing your organisation’s impact on your website to content accessibility and a guide to micro copy. Substrakt designs and builds websites and digital products alongside providing strategic consultancy, training and support services.  A Supporting Sponsor of Audiences at the Heart, AMA Conference 2023, Leeds.  


Published: 2023 | Resource type: Guide/tools

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Accessibility: How to make your brand more accessible

Ell Powell, Senior Content Writer at the digital agency Splitpixel shares tips on how to make your websites, digital content and social media more accessible.


Published: 2023 | Resource type: Article

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Theatre powers connection: a new brand and website for National Theatre Wales

Tabitha Milne and Rhian Hughes share the development of new brand positioning and website for National Theatre Wales (NTW). They open up the process of change as NTW re-examined its vision, values and direction under the artistic leadership of Lorne Campbell.


Published: 2023 | Resource type: Case studies

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Compressing images for your website

The amount of energy used by data centres is growing unsustainably. Even if your servers are powered by 100% renewable energy, it’s still important (and cost effective) to compress images before uploading them to your site. Michael Smith, Founder Director at the digital design agency Cog Design guides us through why and how to do ... Read more


Published: 2022 | Resource type: Guide/tools

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Why you should get rid of your ‘What’s On’ page

Following his successful session at our annual conference, A New Adventure, Birmingham (2022), Andrew Ladd from Ten4 Design looks at the shortcomings of ‘What’s On’ pages and how you can replace them with more streamlined and useful user experiences on your own website.


Published: 2022 | Resource type: Article

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Video: Using ‘page weight’ to reduce your website’s carbon footprint

The amount and type of  content on your website directly impacts on your site’s carbon footprint. Kate Mroczkowski from digital agency and arts sector specialists, Supercool, explains how you can measure and reduce ‘page weight’ to keep your website leaner and greener.


Published: 2022 | Resource type: Webinars and films

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Accessibility: a website for everyone

Irrespective of how a website is accessed or navigated, what device is used, internet connection, software, language, location, or ability, a website should work for everyone.  Substrakt, digital agency specialising in the cultural sector, talks us through how making a website more accessible naturally results in it being more usable for everyone.


Published: 2022 | Resource type: Article

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5 tips to improve your web writing

In today’s digitally fuelled world, we’re all writers. We tag, post, publish and paste text more often than we realise. And a lot of the time, we’re not getting it right. We’re losing out on our readers’ finite attention. Zosia Poulter, Content Strategist at Substrakt gives us 5 tips to improve our web writing.


Published: 2023 | Resource type: Article

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How to create a sustainable website: coding and hosting

In the second of a series of 3 articles, Katie Parry from digital agency and arts sector specialists, Supercool, gives practical tips to reduce your website’s energy consumption. Here she focuses on coding and hosting. This post is sponsored by Supercool.


Published: 2021 | Resource type: Guide/tools

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Sustainable content creation tips

In the third of a series of 3 articles, Katie Parry from digital agency and arts sector specialists, Supercool, gives practical tips to reduce your website’s energy consumption.  Here she digs deep into sustainable content creation tips. This post is sponsored by Supercool.


Published: 2021 | Resource type: Guide/tools

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Sustainable web design – make your website better for the environment

In the first of a series of 3 articles, Katie Parry from digital agency and arts sector specialists, Supercool, gives practical tips to reduce your website’s energy consumption.


Published: 2021 | Resource type: Guide/tools

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Personality, purpose and heart: how your website can better reflect your brand. Part 1.

In this 2-parter, James Coleman from digital agency and arts sector specialists, Supercool, shares quick-wins, practical tips, and shining examples of organisations brilliantly adding personality, purpose and heart to their websites — without the need for a redesign.


Published: 2021 | Resource type: Guide/tools

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Personality, purpose and heart: how your website can better reflect your brand. Part 2.

In this 2-parter, James Coleman from digital agency and arts sector specialists, Supercool, shares quick-wins, practical tips, and shining examples of organisations brilliantly adding personality, purpose and heart to their websites — without the need for a redesign.


Published: 2021 | Resource type: Guide/tools

How interaction design can make your website more effective

Over and above the look of a website, it’s important to consider the way people can interact with it. Katie Parry from digital agency and arts sector specialists, Supercool, explains what makes interaction design so powerful, and shares some nifty examples.


Published: 2021 | Resource type: Article

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The AMA MicroDigital Guide to writing a website brief

Brian Healy, Head of Agency at Un.titled shares his wealth of experience on what makes a great website brief. This template will guide you through the process. It’s not the definitive list of what you’ll need, but it’s a great starting point and will serve as food for thought.


Published: 2021 | Resource type: Guide/tools