The staff of the Mount Sinai Archives is hard at work pulling together text and images for a new Archives website to replace our existing 1999 era, fully Y2K compliant web pages. This has meant reviewing the current content, editing it where needed and trying to find the perfect images that are wide and not tall, and that will get across the theme of each page. Should the pictures be old and classic looking to show that we care for historical material? Or should they be all modern and techie to show our efforts to move our collection to the digital age? And what about the information itself? Which sections deserve their own pages, and which can be handled in a drop-down box?
All of these are questions we are working through right now. We will submit our first draft to the Mount Sinai web team next week, and then it will be up to them to design it into a coherent, eye catching whole. Watch for our new website in February or early March of 2016. The one thing we are certain of: the new website will be a big improvement over our current site!
Hmm, would this make a good website photo?