American Museum of Natural History

The American Museum of Natural History, one of the world’s five most-visited museums, has had us create a subsite for the Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival two years in a row. The sections needed to fit the website’s feel, but in a distinct fashion. We contributed custom PHP and themed up the site’s design, leaving breathing room for big, crisp, quick-loading images.

Armistead Booker, associate media designer at AMNH and this project’s point of contact, describes our coding contributions as a “completely overhauled backend to the site, which was a vast improvement from the festival site in previous years.” He also confirms that we were “on budget for this project … accommodating our demanding schedule and timing just as we requested.”

Be sure to click around the rest of the AMNH website so you can get a feel for how our contributions fit in.

Some AMNH fast facts:

• Founded in 1869
• Four million annual museum visitors
• 460,000 field-trip visitors annually
• 13 million annual website visitors
• 200 scientists on staff
• Over 90 publications per year
• International expeditions yielding 60,000+ new exhibit items annually

Much, much more on the museum here.

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Our task: create a section for the Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival that fit the American Museum of Natural History website’s feel, but in a distinct fashion. To that end, we decided to go with breathing room for big, crisp images. Did we pull it off? You be the judge.

Be sure to click around the rest of the AMNH website so you can get a feel for how our contribution fits in. And let us know what you think!