Meed required a microsite dedicated to news for the construction industry in the Middle East. The news would cover six sectors and the articles would be submitted by a variety of contributors specialist in their respective skillsets.
CHALLENGE
Facilitating the variety of contributors across six channels of industry.
SOLUTION
Featured functionality included a mega style menu structure assigning feature stories, top storied within each sector, showcasing video content, moving sections about and sharing content across social media channels.
Each channel is identified by a particular colour and represented by recurring rectangular boxes. The territory, the properties and the family history have an engaging portrait of these wonderful and peculiar lands. Every wine has its own product sheet, designed to provide technical information…
June’s Site of the Month is Building Live for UBM. We created this site using our Byzantium theme using very well thought out assets for the event branding. We were then able to translate these into a very engaging design within the WordPress theme
The New Architect of the year awards website uses the new Sphere + theme with a bespoke home page. We’ve used sections to separate content on the page.
Prism Sites – for larger Conferences & Exhibitions
Designing City Resilience
Designing City Resilience
Education Estates
Education Estates
Airportsecurity Conference
Airport Security
WEPower
WEP Power
Sphere Sites –
Orcid Casrai
Rant Conference
Rant Conference
Please let us know if you have any questions on specific design elements – just add your questions in the comments section below.
The Carbon Show Click image to view live
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.
