Museum & heritage website design & development

Museum CD-ROM / DVD development

Creating multimedia products

Designing and producing multimedia CD-ROM and DVD products to sell to visitors, researchers and enthusiasts is relatively inexpensive and can create an income stream from both visitors and website users. Many visitors now expect that all information on a website should be free; in this climate a CD-ROM or DVD is a good way to obtain revenue from your resources.

A CD ROM product can be:

• A 'must have' souvenir of a visit or an exhibition
• An educational interactive for child home learning
• A collection of images and additional information for the enthusiast
• A themed database of a wider collection with interactives for home research
• An in-depth database of information for the student or researcher.
• A collection of resources, interactives and lesson plans for teachers
• A stand alone interactive educational title including resources, modules and investigations

Examples of museum and educational CD-ROM products

One Hundred Treasures – A simple CD-ROM for The British Library to support its ‘100 Treasures’ exhibition. The CD included images for investigation and audio context, supported with transcripts

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Britain 1750 - 1900 – visually exciting CD-ROM production to support the curriculum, involving on-screen narratives, investigations and resources for students to use.

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Scholastic publications – although not museum-based, these CD-ROM productions show how mixed media resources can be offered as a resource for teachers.

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Reading Rooms - An outreach CD-ROM product to provide users of The British Library Reading Rooms with orientation maps, 360 degree panoramas, lending and other information specific to the different rooms.

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How Footmark can help

At Footmark we can guide you through the options and costs of creating and producing a CD-ROM / DVD for sale, depending on your content and requirements.

We can also create an online shop or single purchase page for your website allowing you to advertise and sell your product online. See > www.footmark.com/footmark-webdesign-e-commerce.html

To find out more about multimedia product development for museums and heritage projects please contact Richard Gray 07809 524 300 > richard.gray@footmark.com

See our > portfolio for examples of our work.