The Advert / Teaser pop-outs is now available to use on the Conference-Website.co.uk Platform.
Here is a demo on https://demo.conference-websites.co.uk/
Administration > Settings > Popout Settings
A significant chunk of web traffic to our Live Event websites come from mobile. Considering how your users view your website content on a mobile device should be an essential part of any web strategy for your live event.
In this article I outline 3 options open to you.
i.e. Do nothing and use the online website version of the conference website.
Your Conference Website is already optimised for iPhone and Android. Click here to see the an article on how to promote your website as a web app.
Advantages: Free and quick, no need to do anything other than build the website.
Disadvantages: Online Only, not offline
A live event portal. You can load your conference website content to Eventbase. Users download the eventbase app to view your conference content.
Give attendees a complete guide to your event in a feature-rich native app for iPhone, iPad, Android, BlackBerry and mobile website.
Advantages: Free and provides an offline version of the website content.
Disadvantages: Users have to view the app via the eventbase app, so no direct download of the app content. Also, content needs to be replicated to the app.
We have teamed up with app development company attendify to offer a web app version of your conference website.
Advantages: Full and “proper” native app.
Disadvantages: Content needs to be replicated to the app.
We’re about to release a new update for Conference Websites with some new features and a few minor fixes.
Main features include…
Twitter Widget, With Twitter changing it’s rules on who can access twitter feeds we’ve had to react. We’ve released a new tool to comply with the latest Twitter changes. Make sure you check out the support forum for the latest information on the switchover.
RSS Ticker, it’s now possible to pass an RSS feed url into the strapline, this allows you to show the latest news from an external source such as a news website or related blog.
Track Descriptions, seminar programmes have track headings, now you can show a description as well. This is automatically added for you to display at the start of a new track.
Bug fixes and amends, tweaks and improvements. As always we’re trying to fix any bugs that come up, if you notice any, let us know on the support site.
A gallery is a great way to give your visitors the confidence and desire to book a ticket for your conference. Show off all the hard work you’ve put in to make sure the event looks great on the day.
After the event a gallery of photos after the event will help draw your visitors back to your conference website where you can inform them of the next event or latest news.
To start, go to the ‘edit’ screen of the page you want to place your gallery on i.e. Admin > Pages > Select page you want to place the gallery on.
Click the ‘Add Media‘ button, just above the main page text editor. Then ‘Create Gallery‘ in the top left hand corner.
Upload or select your photos from the media library then click ‘Create a new gallery‘.
Order: You can change the order of the photos to display by dragging and dropping the images around.
Columns: Choose how many columns of photos you’d like to show
Then when you’re happy click ‘Insert Gallery‘
We’re pretty confident we can teach anyone how to use the Conference Websites platform in under an hour but in a perfect world you wouldn’t need that.
So this newest release helps to remove some of those areas which were causing confusion before.
We’ve been beavering away on the latest round of updates, fixes and tweaks to ensure the conference websites platform is the slickest conference website solution on the market.
Below is a quick breakdown of some of the great new features.
We’ve updated the conference websites platform with exciting new possibilities. Extensions allows you to choose some extras for your site to help give your site the edge.
Extensions can be enabled on your conference website by contacting us. Prices are visible by accessing the new extensions page in your conference website admin (Dashboard > Event Settings > Extensions).
PresentationsAfter a great conference you want to give your delegates access to the files used in the presentation. The presentations extension will allow you to display the session slides, printouts and even listen to the session audio right from your website.
Store tracking information about where the site visitors come into the site. Then include this information in links leaving to your registration pages.
This is a great tool for working out the effectiveness of your marketing campaign by linking your mailouts or banner ads directly to the registration company via your conference website
Along with these great new possibilities we’ve also included over 100 small tweaks and updates based on your feedback. Remember that we are listening to your feedback and if you notice anything (no matter how small) a miss from typos to broken pages. Let us know in the forums.
This following video demonstrates the new speaker layouts and placement tools.
Now you have the option of how to layout your speakers. Organising the most important featured speakers at the top of the page with big large images.
The horizontal layout is great for showing off a small selection of speakers though-out your site and the vertical layout is the classic to display all you speakers in one place.
In order to display the right content in the right places we’ve extended our speaker system to include grouping. Now you can have a selection of key speakers appear on the homepage and your advisory board in the sidebar.
Combine this with our new custom ordering tools to get exactly what you need.
A big requirement of a speaker system is being able to have your key speakers displayed in the order you need. With ‘Conference Websites by Miramedia’ serving global companies this need is for more than simply aesthetic reasons.
For this reason we’ve extended our speaker system to include custom ordering. From the speaker placement tool shown above you can choose to order your speakers using the new ‘Custom ordering’ tool.
This provides you with a simple area to ‘drag and drop’ your speakers into the order you need.
All of these great new features are now live as part of a free update to all conference website users.
After a busy couple of weeks here’s a breakdown of what’s just rolled off the pipeline
The homepage dashboard now includes links to the user guide, this document breaks down the entire backend of the system to help you get to grips with this powerful conference website editor. There is also a live feed directly from our new support forum, so if you have an issue you can get the help you need. Alternatively if you can see a colleague in trouble feel free to lend a hand and answer their queries.
A great new feature is the ‘sponsor system’ now sponsors can be featured into your site with ease. Look out for the ‘star’ icon in the page editor and you can add in extra dynamic conference content.
There are a two different ways to layout your sponsors either with a full details view or (as pictured) just the logos with each logo linking to a full details page for each sponsor.
Fixed: Speaker homepage widget showing all speakers regardless of featured or not.
Removed: Registration link fields as these just add to admin confusion. Use custom menu widget instead to add links.
Registration links can be added using the custom menu builder to add to the sidebar or the main navigation.