culture.gov.au

Connecting you with Australian culture online

Website development

Bluey search

If you are indexed by the Culture portal, then you can install a free Bluey search engine in your site that will provide your visitors direct access to over 2,400,000 pages of Australian cultural material.

Creating Good Web Content - communication

Notes designed to assist collections organisations to create effective content and to determine the kinds of content that is will be most effective for reaching their target audience with relevant information.

Copyright information

Refer to the Portal's Copyright page for a copyright statement and references on copyright which may be useful for website developers.

eBusiness Guide

Assisting cultural organisations develop and implement ebusiness strategies with a practical eBusiness Guide.

Engaging your audience in Social Media - Blogs, wikis and podcasts explained

Social media is a term used to describe collaborative, online web technologies. These most commonly recognised of these are blogs, podcasts and wikis, however sites and networks such as facebook (social networking), flickr (image sharing), youtube (video sharing), myspace (social networking) and del.icio.us (social bookmarking) are also part of this kind of collaborative activity.

Free site search

Install a free site search that will allow your visitors to search the contents of your site. Please note that this search is only available to the Australian websites listed in our database.

Internet development guides

A set of Internet development guides that will help Australian cultural workers and cultural organisations discover why they should use the Internet, how they might use it, and how to develop an Internet presence.

Open source software

Open source software (OSS) is a type of computer software defined by: free access to the source code; ongoing free distribution; the requirement that the licence is technology-neutral; and several other attributes that relate to its licensing and legal framework. The AGIMO Open Source Software page is a source of information about Commonwealth Government OSS initiatives and resources.

Web Publishing Guide

The AGIMO Web Publishing Guide, 18 June 2007, brings together Commonwealth Government resources and information for website management.  It is designed to help agencies and websites with their legal and policy obligations, and to access guidance and better practice advice. The Guide consolidates and replaces previous Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) resources. The Guide provides information about:

• Accessibility and Equity
• Archiving and Preservation
• e-Government Policy
• Legal Issues
• Maintaining and Evaluating
• Managing Content
• Marketing
• Planning
• Technical Development
• Types of Content
• Types of Sites
• Users
• Visual Design and Branding