Miramedia can now offer full design and branding services.

The package is £500 and includes everything you need in order to build a great looking professional website using the conference-websites.co.uk platform:

Deliverables include:

  • Logo design
  • Logo treatment – web and print versions
  • Web header
  • Web background design (might be blank)
  • Full page advert

TOTAL COST: £500.00

*Added revisions and requirements over and above approved design are costed at our standard rate.

Notes & Terms:

Based on my understanding of the brief and client requirements at initial phase, the pricing will include one design route submitted with a maximum of 2 sets of revisions* pre-implementation across variable deliverables as listed.

We would aim to develop listed deliverables inline with agreed final Logo treatment within a 2 – 3 day
time frame dependent on the speed at which we get feedback and the speed of which we get responses to all communications along the way.

Conditions

Pricing does not include use of purchased imagery/photography – the purchase of stock imagery will be priced and costed on final approved visuals prior to development / launch.

Additional services, eg. commissioned photoshoot, illustration, copywriting, strategic planning, are subject to additional pricing and will be priced and costed accordingly.

Updates

Future updates and additional deliverables will be charged at our standard rate. Longer projects can be undertaken on a negotiated fixed-fee basis.

Billing

50% of the total project cost will be invoiced on approved visuals. The remaining 50% will be invoiced on handover of the project and paid prior to release.

* Prices and details correct as at preparation date, errors and omissions excepted, subject to contract.

Please contact our print designer Tracy for more info: Tracy[at]miramedia.co.uk.

 

With the new Conference Website 2014 theme we offer you the chance to customise your buttons to the style of your website. Buttons have 4 choices of corner roundness along with 7 different arrow styles. You can also customise the colour of the buttons to match the colour scheme of the website.

I am often asked by Event Organisers how to embed their twitter home page into their website. What they want to do is to not only display Tweets for their own accounts, they want to display tweets from their customers OR a general buzz about the event:

Here are some ideas of how you can use Twitter Timelines for your Event Website:

  1. Handpick tweets about your event or area of interest
  2. Display all the tweets with the hashtag from the show – e.g. #THE_ESTAS
  3. Bring in all the tweets from your speakers / exhibitors / sponsors

Examples:

 

 

Conference-websites.co.uk is already optimised for mobile. It uses a responsive design to ensure that the site always fits perfectly on any screen size. To try this out for yourself, either look at your site using your mobile phone OR drag in the corners of your Desk-Top based browser.

Definition of a web app

Is any application that uses a web browser as a client. The term may also mean a computer software application that is coded in a browser-supported programming language and reliant on a common web browser to render the application executable. …

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web-app

To convert your Conference Website INTO a web app,

…all you need to is:

  1. Ensure you have loaded a FAVICON for your site. A Favicon is a small logo or image displayed alongside the title of your website in the browser. This is done:
    Dashboard > Event Settings > Misc > FavIcon
  2. Copy and paste the instructions below into a page called Web App and promote this page.

View Our Conference Website as a Web App on your mobile phone:

Adding a Shortcut Web Application to your iPhone

  1. View your Conference Website on your iphone OR iPad.
  2. From the bottom of the screen click on the small Square with arrow

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Adding a Shortcut Web Application to your Android device (assuming you are using the default Android Browser):

  1. View your Conference Website on your android phone or tablet.
  2. From the right hand corner, click on the 3 squares and then click on the big PLUS sign +
  3. Select “Add to Home Screens”
  4. Take a screenshot of your handset so you can upload this to your webpage instructions –
    http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/how-to/google-android/3446798/how-take-screenshot-on-android-phones/
  5. Then you need to shout about it – copy and paste the code from this article onto a page on your website. Add a link “DOWNLOAD App version of this website” and you are ready to go.

Example Screenshot of your Web App from my Android Phone

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IPP-1306070497We’ve won the ‘Best Marketing Services Supplier’ award at the Conference Awards 2013

Up against some tough competition in a very general awards category we’ve extremely pleased to have won the award. It’s a great achievement to have won this award just over 14 months after the launch of the ‘Conference Websites’ product.

This was the first time the Conference Awards has also included supplier awards. Judged by a panel of 18 key senior figures in the conference industry from companies such as UBM, Incisive Media and Haymarket.

Following on from this award we’re going to celebrate, before Monday morning where we’re continuing our determined approach to make the Conference Websites product the most efficient, affordable and quality product it can be.

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We are delighted to announce that we have been shortlisted at the Conference Venue & Supplier Awards for 2013.

We have been shortlisted for the ‘Best Marketing Services Supplier‘ award.

This follows a great year of hard work and development since initially officially launching the Conference Websites platform in March 2012.

Since the launch we’ve had over 200 conferences hosted on the platform and have had some great feedback and reviews from our customers.

We hope to see you there at the awards this Friday 7th June. Don’t worry, we’ll let you know if we win.

Also in the running are 2 of our client’s event:

Best Association Conference:
UBM conference… we did website… http://www.alta-ubma-mrosummit.com/

Best Awards Experience:
UBM… National sales awards… http://www.nationalsalesawards.com/

The Carbon Show
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The carbon show has been one of the most progressive sites on the conference websites platform. The organisers ‘Haymarket events’ have made the most of all the rich tools we’ve provided to create a brilliantly usable and visually interesting website.

Below I’ll go through some of the features used throughout the site which have made the biggest steps in this site.

Use of images

Images used for buttons and bullets

The best way to raise the interest levels of your site is to include images. Whether it’s a photo relevant to the page or just a graphic which works alongside the creative.

The graphic bullet points (shown in the image left) add a really nice touch to bring the branding into the page content.

How: This has been done simply by inserting the images to the editor using the ‘Upload/Insert Media’ button just above the text editor. Placing the image above the text and aligned to the left will allow the text below to flow freely around the image.

Exhibitor Lists

Whilst not originally intended for exhibitor lists the carbon show actually uses the sponsor system to create an nicely laid out exhibitor list linking off to the ‘sponsor’ profile page.

How: Add a new sponsor through the admin, the clever bit is to create a new ‘sponsortype’ labelled ‘exhibitors’. Then in the same way you’d insert a list of sponsors you can use it to list your exhibitors. 

Whilst this isn’t an ‘official’ way of adding an exhibitor list we do applaud their thinking.

Multiple Seminar Programmes

Creating multiple programme streams

The carbon show isn’t just a one track conference. They’ve got 4 separate themes running alongside one another on the day. For this they’ve created separate pages for each of the programmes to allow the visitors of the site to pick and choose the content they want to see.

This method is great for separating the sessions and keeping the programme from getting too clogged up. An overview page does a great job of guiding the visitor through to each of the programmes (although a clearer clickable button would have helped a little more).

How: All seminar sessions can be assigned to a ‘track’ via the session edit screen. These tracks will then get their own page created for them. To view the new track page go to the admin then under seminars is an option for ‘Tracks’. This will allow you to tweak the tracks or view the page. 

1. Create your branding

Buy the Denim Creative Package for £500 and get your brand up and running in no time at all. This includes; website header plus four web banners, one half-page and one full-page advert and a four page sales brochure produced for both the internet and print.

Learn more about this package contact enquiries@denim-creative.co.uk

2. Setup your website

Buy a Conference-Websites.co.uk package for just £500, including everything you will need to design, build and maintain your website for one year.

Learn more about this package contact info@miramedia.co.uk

3. Get listed on your search engines

Improve your position on Google / Bing

  1. Optimise the content on your site by following our tips and service
  2. Setup on Google Webmaster tools – www.google.com/webmasters/tools/

You will need to authenticate the site, you can do this buy linking your Webmaster tools account with Google Analytics.

You need to create an XML sitemap using http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/

You then need to upload this file using the WordPress media system and then submit that to Google Webmaster tools.

Use Pay-per-click Advertising to get listed quickly

Google and Bing both offer free advertising on their networks.

Google free ads: http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/ads/offers/start.html

Bing: https://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-uk/free-bing-advertising-coupon-bingads?

Click here for more information on the Miramedia service >

 

4. Get Social

Choose social media platforms that are relevant to your event. These are likely to be Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, although you may want to consider experimenting with others depending on your target market.

Setup on Twitter

The trick to getting more followers is to follow people who are going to be interested in what you have to say. They will be posting news and opinions on the topic you wish to promote (so you can retweet and reply) and they will want to know more about the industry from your angle.

The key to Twitter is consistency. Try to tweet regularly each day with relevant tweets, to show your audience that you are available, reliable and interesting.

Remember to add your twitter feed to your Conference-Website.co.uk to get visitors to your website involved and aware that you can be contacted through Twitter.

Setup a Facebook Company page

Use the cover picture space to place a high res image with your conference information and add visual impact to the page. If it doesn’t attract people, they will leave.

Use the logo or title of the conference as the profile image – this will appear next to every interaction you do throughout the site and will remind people who you are at a glance.

Make sure to update your Facebook page about twice a week. Use interesting information about the conference, about the speakers and seminar programs and about the exhibitors who will be there. Concentrate on sharing videos, pictures and information your audience will find valuable.

Set-up a Linked In Group page for your event

Use the Group page to start discussions about your upcoming event and always share your question to your other social networks, like Twitter and Facebook, as well as other LinkedIn Groups whose demographic suits your conference.

Take to joining other groups whose members are a part of your target audience. Join in conversations and share useful information, but don’t just hard-sell your conference – you’ll end up banned.

Add links to your discussions that lead interested parties back to your website. This will help your search engine rankings and add the ability for your audience to find out more if they want to.

Find out more about using social media for business at www.nimblefox.co.uk

5. Add your event to Conference Listing sites

Along with the possibility of clicks from these sites, listing your conference website will improve your SEO ranking.

Lanyrd – http://lanyrd.com/

Lanyrd is a list of conferences and events with links to delegates and speakers.

AllConferences.com

List of conferences and events.

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