[Marius]

They seem to have a great new look website up, with improved online booking. This has to be one of the best theatre websites in my view, loads of info and great booking facilities.

And no i dont work there its just my local venue

www.the-mayflower.com

[M George]

I wish the flippin Live Nation theatreds had websites as good as that. My local ones (Opera House & Palace in Manchester and Liverpool Empire) have appalling websites. They should take note!!!

[Matthew Winn]

The Mayflower's site is good. It's easy to find the three things that are most important to me: how to get to the theatre, how to contact the box office, and what's on.

I agree about the Live Nation sites. Many of the regional theatres had their own websites, but the chains have now incorporated all the information into one big corporate site that is concerned primarily with promoting the corporation. Finding out what's on at particular times in the future is a pain in the arse. It's a good job I've already visited most of the major regional houses and have a perfect sense of direction because none of them seem to want to offer anything as useful as a map, so if I didn't already know where I was going I'd be out of luck.

Oh, hang on. The Birmingham Alexandra does have a map, only it took me a few minutes to find it and it's been set up so that unless your screen is the same size as that of Live Nation's web designer the Alex won't be central on the map, and may not actually be visible at all. Great. I could turn over a rock in my garden and find something capable of better work than that.

[M George]

It amazed me that the corporately owned theatres gace such rubbish sites. The internet is such a useful resource for finding information and booking tickets etc erc you'd think that corporate or not these theatres would all be fighting to have the best website. Odd!

Live Nation are the worst. ATG site is fairly easy to navigate. Live Nation is just terrible.

[IanFerguson]

Thanks guys, feedback is always useful good and bad (Yes, I do work there!)

Is there anything else you'd like to see on the Mayflower site? We have further development plans such as putting loads of historic information about past shows (back to 1920 if we have time!) on there, floor maps of our theatre (as it's a maze!), regular ticket giveaway competitions, and possibly a web forum like this if it interests customers (sites like WOS are great but tend to be London-centric or national, we might see if there's a case for a more local-to-Southampton web community).

They seem to have a great new look website up, with improved online booking. This has to be one of the best theatre websites in my view, loads of info and great booking facilities.

And no i dont work there its just my local venue

www.the-mayflower.com

[Alexandra]

Nice, uncluttered site, with clear links to further info - WOS should take a leaf out of your book! And it's great to be able to find the seating plan so easily - normally that's several speculative clicks away from the homepage.