To cover an adequate range of topics within Postwar Culture, much time and effort must be spent.  'Fifties' sites are the most comprehensive but are limited to popular cultural forms.  Specialised topic sites also tend to be insular, not straying from their area of interest even in links pages.  The few sites with integrated topics relate to more obvious cultural connections such as Bebop and Beat poets.

In terms of culture, sites are descriptive of outward forms eg song/movies titles.  There is little attmept to understand lifestyles or the arts themselves in greater depth.  For instance it is difficult to find evidence of jazz venues or how cars were integrated into people's lives.

This lack of depth is linked to the type of sources incorporated into the web sites.  'Fifties' sites again have the greatest range from cultural icons to slang.  Combined with presentation of the sites which often aims to simulate the style of the era, these generated the deepest overall understanding of their cultural focus, without explicit secondary source usage.  Other sites rely on photos or graphics, with even less focus on audio clips than you would expect for the music sites.  Online exhibitions, produced by museums, government bodies or centers, tend towards 'galleries' with a visual art or photographic slant, or online 'textbook', so in general they lack range and integration of sources.  Archives, such as American Memory, potentially provide primary sources for these topics, however they can be cumbersome to use.  Sources, such as photos of jazz musicians from the late 1940s, are at the moment placed in isolation aside from that provided by the wealth of material.

For sites which do include types of sources, there is a need for overall analysis to pull together these pieces and expand upon their significance.  At this point it could be debated whether the role of these sites is to provide analysis.  However, most sites lack even a framework to present their topic, sources or analysis in relation to each other let alone the wider world or web.

There is not an extensive amount of secondary sources, being formal analyses, to be found on the web.  In the private web, there are digitised forms of hard-copy journals.  I have not examined these, such as JSTOR, but to a viewer with appropriate access, much secondary literature otherwise found in libraries, could be accessed.  On the otherhand, a number of exclusively online journals exist which seem to be relevant to Postwar Culture but I was unable to view them.  Public-access secondary sources, usually written by students, but often articles of undetermined authorship, seems to be of a lower standard than would be expected elsewhere, especially in terms of referencing. Many articles have been placed seemingly at random on the web.

Furthermore, little or no change has been made in preparing all these articles for the web.   They share a lack or completely unimaginative use of hypertext and use plain, unaltered structures.  This means they are not taking advantage of the hypertext and WWW environment which can facilitate comparison of ideas as well as use of sources to corroborate the argument.  At the most there is a well-placed contemporary advertisement, or such, within the text.