Name and shame. (browser).

The RIBA has moved its amazing collection of architectural drawings to London's famed Victorian and Albert Museum but it hasn't yet settled it into a new gallery. Still there's a fresh website www.architectureforall.com which, looking at the home page, you would have thought would be a breath of fresh air among the dusty corridors of archivism, Not so, in the words of a Sunday Times reviewer who expected something better of two 'of our leading national institutions'. I have, sadly, to agree. The trouble, apparently, is budget. So what? you ask, because nobody trying to use the site is at all interested in the promoters' problems. And not that it entirely true because whoever decided on the content and its navigation seems to have arrived from Planet Zorg. I gather they are calling in some people who understand these things but here's a good demonstration of why not to practise public cheapskate-ism -- even in the cyberworld. The two shabby old institutions might take a joint look at the quite wonderful Louvre website at www.louvre.fr which does everything effortlessly and with style. Astonishingly, given the French view of the British, it has an English version -- and there are versions in Spanish and Japanese. A really nice touch are the semi-navigable panoramic views of the sculpture courtyards. The current exhibition, Michelangelo's Slaves, even has a webcam, a device more commonly deployed for specialist web pay sites. Naturally you view the Louvre's webcam during the show's opening hours.