Website Review

Looking very much like the Green Bay Packers throughout the inaugural years of the Super Bowl, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra takes the prize of having the best website in the business for the second straight year…

What makes a good orchestra website? The mere question can generate conversations which last for hours. Nevertheless, each orchestra will decide for themselves just how important their website activities are to the organization and how much of their resources they can allocate toward website development and maintenance…

The evaluation parameters between 2004 and 2005 have been modified modestly along the following key points…

What a difference one year can make. From 2004 to 2005 there were quite a few changes among orchestra websites, some good and some not so good. Here were some of the most noticeable differences revealed by this year’s evaluation…

Between 8/22/05 and 8/31/05, I examined 80 professional orchestra websites and ranked them by how well they presented their concert schedule, sold tickets, provided organizational information, facilitated making donations, and on their overall content and functionality. The websites were not examined on the subjective basis of color schemes, layout, graphics, or other aesthetic qualities…