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About this website

Contents


Introduction

The Australian Museum website was launched in 1995. In early 1997 the first user statistics were measured with the site averaging approximately 7000 user sessions per month.

In May 2002, Australian Museum Online site statistics (all servers combined) were:

May 2002

Sessions

Page Views

Hits

Per Month

386,796

1,240,892

11,727,032

Per day

12,477

40,029

378,291

Australian Museum Online aims to make resources related to the Museum's research collections and knowledge accessible to the people of New South Wales and beyond. Scientists, students, and the public can have access to and communicate with the resources and people of the Australian Museum


Museum Websites

Australian Museum Online is comprised of a number of websites:

Australian Museum Online

www.amonline.net.au

Australian Museum Business Services

www.ambs.com.au

Crustacea Net

www.crustacea.net

Indigenous Australia

www.dreamtime.net.au

Death - the last taboo

www.deathonline.net

FATE - Future of Australia's Threatened Ecosystems

www.fate.net.au

Faunanet

www.faunanet.gov.au

Living Harbour

www.livingharbour.net

Lost kingdoms

www.lostkingdoms.com

Nature Australia Magazine

www.natureaustraliamagazine.com.au

Nature Focus

www.naturefocus.com.au

Faunanet Resources

faunanet.gov.au/ird/

Science in the City

www.scienceinthecity.net

Sea Slug forum

www.seaslugforum.net

Wildlife of Sydney

faunanet.gov.au/wos/

The old site, www.austmus.gov.au, is no longer active and is only used to redirect traffic from old links to the new site structure on this website.


The team

Australian Museum Online is managed and developed by the Australian Museum:

Anne Skates

Manager, Web Development Unit

Peter Firminger

Server administration, database and (ColdFusion) application design

Russ Weakley

Interface and Graphic Design

Helen Slarke

Projects Coordinator

Rose Cox

Design and Development

Brooke Carson-Ewart

Science Content Research

Ben Rudman

Web Assistant (images)

Brigid Gregg

Administration

Staff across the Museum contribute to the website, with major input by:

Mark McGrouther

Fishes Collection Manager, Fish site
www.amonline.net.au/fishes

Stuart Humphreys

Photography

Dr Bill Rudman

Malacology, Sea Slug Forum
www.seaslugforum.net

Jim Lowry

Invertebrates, Crustacea.net
www.crustacea.net

Roger Muller

Eureka Awards


Accessibility

We aim to make our site content accessible across a range of delivery channels. Site development has included the use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) across the site. Australian Museum websites aim to reflect a high level of usability and accessibility. We have implemented W3C standards and are strong supporters of the webstandards.org Browser Upgrade Campaign.

We have tried to make all pages accessible to all browsers and have included alternatives to images where the information is vital. Older browsers (earlier than Netscape 4 or Internet Explorer 4) may not show the content in the design we intended but all content should be viewable. If you find that a browser you are using has trouble with any content, please let us know via the comments and feedback form.


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