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June 17
13 Fantastic and Fresh Mobile Web Resources for 2013
These days we Schipulites are spending a lot of time talking about, reading about, and developing for the Mobile Web. ... | Read on!
Festivals, Events, and Entertainment Websites
Festival, Entertainment and Event Websites: Create Traffic Online and On Foot!
Festival, Events and Entertainment ranges from one extreme to another. There is truly something out there for everyone, but how do you keep your site relevant when a multitude of options are available? Here are some things to consider!
1. Keep your Site Eventful with Constant Updates.
Whether its adding stories about the Festival, adding new Calendar Events or even Pictures and Videos of featured Live Music, constant content updates keeps everyone informed and up to date on whats new. What's more is having your site visitors pinpoint your site as a go to location for new information keeps them coming back for more.
Using a Content Management System and showcasing new content on your homepage keeps you relevant, shows that your event or festival has plenty to offer, and has visitors continually coming back for more!
2. Mobile Site: A Site that Moves with your Visitors.
Your website should make it easy for your visitors to find what they are looking for online and on location. Imagine the people who are at a festival using your mobile app to find where they want to go or what is happening in the now...how can your mobile site help them find what they are looking for?
Because Events and Festivals bring in plenty of international traffic, we can build websites with multilingual capabilities that translate your site's content to match the languages of your international visitors. Whats more is, we also can design custom mobile themes that recognize and adapt to your site visitors' screen sizes depending on the device they are using, allowing them to view your site anytime, anywhere.
3. Your website should reflect who you are.
Does your website reflect what your Events and Festivals are about? By creating a site that is visually pleasing but also consistent with your brand, your site visitors will get excited about what to expect and want to be there!
Visual appeal is such an important factor and we build sites that are just as nice to look at as they are to use. Take a look at our portfolio to see our website design services.
The Texas Renaissance Festival Site makes you feel like you are there already!
4. Seeing is Believing: Photos and Videos
Photos and Videos is the way to go when it comes to showing site visitors how fun and exciting your events and festivals are. Take The Houston International Festival as an example, seeing pictures of how much fun the people were having just reels you in! Adding photos and videos not only brings information to your visitors in a quick and visual way, but also adds new content to your site.
Hearing about an event is one thing, seeing how fun they actually are is another!
5. Calls to Action
What is the goal of your website? Whether you are looking for new visitors, raving fans to promote your festival, or volunteers for an event, you should make it easy for your visitors to take the action you want on your site!
The Orange Show Center for Visionary Art asks site visitors to Donate Now!
6. Integrating Social Media
There is a reason why social media has grown so much and so quickly thru the years: People love sharing their Experiences! Events and Festivals bring out of the ordaniry experiences to those who join in, how does your site help your visitors share them? Making your content highly shareable is key to bringing in new (and free!) exposure.
Social Media Icons are designed to match the look and feel of your site.
Not only does Schipul implement social media onto your site, but also creates and designs social media icons that match your sites personality, giving it a seamless and consistent look all visitors will enjoy.
Adding a Twitter RSS (Rich Site Summary) Feed to your site allows your event visitor's tweet to be fed directly onto your site, engaging site visitor with real time tweets from people at the event!
Great Web Design and Marketing for Festivals, Events, and Entertainment Websites
Schipul is a strong believer in design and marketing, so we thoroughly enjoy helping to expand visitors to your site. Our award winning layouts will help your site and the ability to keep the conversation going online.
Your new event packed website can let your visitors know what they are missing in a fun informative way.
