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Museums and historical societies

Websites for museums and historical societies.

Visitors check your hours and the current exhibit before they plan a trip, and researchers and members come back for the collection and their renewals. When a new exhibit opens, you send us the details and photos and we put the page up.

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What we look after

What a museum website has to do.

Put the current exhibit up front

When a new exhibit opens or the season changes, the home page should say so that week. We move the old exhibit to a past exhibits page so it stays findable.

Share the collection

Many museums publish their collection through PastPerfect Online or CatalogIt. We link or embed yours so visitors can browse it from the site.

Sell memberships and tickets

Memberships and event tickets run on a service such as Eventbrite or a simple form on the site. We test the signup after every update.

Show the images well

Photos of objects and archives are large files. We size them so they look sharp and still open on a phone.

Take research requests

Research and photo requests come through a form and need to reach the right staff member or volunteer. We test the form and set up your domain's mail records.

Welcome every visitor

Visitors check the site for wheelchair access and other accommodations before they come. We put that on the visit page, and we can set up an accessibility widget and fix problems in the site itself.

What we often hear

What usually goes wrong.

  • The website still shows last year's exhibit as the current one.
  • Membership renewals broke after an update, and we noticed when the numbers dropped.
  • The volunteer who ran the website retired, and the board isn't sure who has the login.
  • Our hours change by season, and the website is always behind.
A note from Ryan

Before they plan the visit

When a historical society asks me to look at its site, I check whether the exhibit on the home page is the one on the floor. Then I try the membership renewal, because the renewal reminders send people to that page and a broken form there costs you members. Those are the first two things I'd fix.

Ryan Lovett, founder of Hosterr
Ryan Lovett
Founder, Hosterr
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Is the new exhibit on the website yet?

Send us the address and we'll look at the hours, exhibits and membership pages on a phone, and check the links to your collection.

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Plans

How much do you want us to do?

Every plan comes with the same developer and a free migration. Managed is month to month, and Managed + Website has a 12-month minimum because the new website is part of it.

Managed

$50 /mo

per site

You already have a site and you update it yourself. We look after everything underneath it.

What we take care of
  • Plugin, theme and WordPress updates snapshot saved first
  • Server, PHP and database updates planned and tested by us
  • Backups twice a day verified and kept off-site for 30 days
  • Security and monitoring scanning with a firewall and alerts
  • Same-day replies from the developer who does the work
  • Regular email updates what we did, in plain English
  • Free migration we move it for you
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Changes to the site itself are quoted first at our standard $95/hr.

A new website included

Managed + Website

$99 /mo

per site, built and hosted by us

We build you a new website, then host it and keep it current. After that, send the requests, like text changes or new pages, and they get made.

Everything in Managed, plus
  • A new website, built for you up to 10 pages, designed and built when you join
  • 1 hour of developer time a month worth $95 at our standard rate
  • Site problems fixed out of that time no quote to approve first
  • Checks after updates we test your forms and checkout
  • A monthly review a look at speed and security
  • First in line your email gets picked up first
  • A design refresh after two years your existing pages, made current
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12-month minimum, then month to month. Unused time carries over one month. Extra hours are quoted first at $95/hr.

Custom SLA

Quote

after we look at your sites and the terms you need

For agencies, larger organizations, and custom web apps and software that need more development, resources and attention.

Everything in Managed, plus
  • Set up for agencies white-label, every client site on one bill
  • Response times in the contract agreed before anything gets signed
  • Uptime commitments in writing with a named person to escalate to
  • A dedicated server, if you need one sized to your traffic
  • Update windows that suit you scheduled around your busy hours
  • Custom software and integrations web apps and tools built around how you work
  • A development team when you need one vetted US-based developers for bigger jobs
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We agree on the terms with you first.

Add-ons for either plan

Common questions

What people ask us.

In most cases, yes. PastPerfect Online, CatalogIt and similar systems give you a link or a way to embed the collection, and we put it where visitors look for it. The collection stays in your collection system, and the website points to it.

Yes. We can link the membership service you use now or set up a simple join and renew form on the site. A full member area with logins and member pricing is a bigger build, so we'd quote it first at $95 an hour or a fixed price.

Yes, that's Managed + Website. We build the new site and host it, then post exhibits and events when you send them, and after two years the design gets a refresh.

It's one of the main reasons museums and historical societies come to us. We take the updates, backups and security off the volunteers, and we write the setup down so the site doesn't depend on whoever built it.
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Nonprofits

Others we look after.

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Churches

Congregations that stream services and take giving online.

Private schools

Schools with admissions, calendars and alumni.

Foundations

Grantmakers with applications and reports.

Tell us what you need.

Tell us what you're running and what's getting in the way. We'll write back the same day with a plan, and if Hosterr isn't the right fit, we'll say so.

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