Museum of Us - made with Sanity.io

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By Zachary Davis

Website for the Museum of Us, in San Diego, California

Project Shots

Screen capture of the homepage with a full-screen menu sliding down.

Full-screen menu.

The blog page, showing tags for filtering content.

The Cultural Resources page, showing an interactive table of contents in the left-hand column.

Editing environment

Editing a blog post with tags, publish date, and thumbnail image.

Built-in PDF viewer for studio Readme document.

About the project

A new website to go with a new name and visual identity. Sanity and Next.js support snappy performance and a simplified editing process compared to WordPress.

This anthropology museum has a deep archive of content and frequent blog-posts, so I knew that the wait time for rebuilding a statically-generated site would be a growing concern. I followed this wonderful guide to implement live previews, then, with update hooks and Vercel's incremental static regeneration, I was able to minimize the time between clicking publish and going live.

Custom guardrails in the studio give editors a lot of confidence. Internal links are checked for validity, and there's a handy User's Guide PDF-viewer built into the header.

Website designed by Rebecca Friedman.

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Creative developer and technical consultant. Implementing solutions in code for artists, institutions and businesses.

Portland, Oregon, USA