Every year a wide range of arts organisations are faced with developing their new website. It can be a daunting prospect – and good websites can be expensive. Making the right decisions about what you want from your website and who you should get to develop it, can be critical. After all, a good website can help promote your brand, showcase your work, sell tickets and merchandise as well as providing an up-to-date, accessible source of information for your audiences.

As the first in a series of video podcasts for the arts, we thought we’d ask some Manchester based arts organisations how they went about doing it – and what their advice would be for any arts organisation who is looking to redevelop their website.

This video was developed as part of AmbITion, which is an Arts Council England funded programme, working to develop 15 beacon arts organisations across the NW and East of England, using digital development across all aspects of their organisation.

The podcast is part of a wide range of dissemination activities looking at spreading good practice in digital development for the arts. For more case studies, and other examples of good practice visit http://www.getambition.com or contact Adrian Slatcher at MDDA via our web comments form.