- Wix – Choose from 80+ event templates to find the best one for your event
- Site123 – Set up a site for your event in 3 simple steps to go live as fast as possible
- WordPress.com – Build a blog to share experiences from your event
- SimpleSite – Get e-commerce capabilities even on the free plan to sell tickets to your event through the site
- Weebly – Import your Instagram feed into your site to show your event in its best light
- Jimdo – Add social media integrations to better engage with your audience
1. Wix
Wix is one of the first places that many go to when they want to create an events website because of its robust selection of over 900 templates. They have an entire category of templates dedicated to events, including:- Weddings & Celebrations
- Conference & Meetups
- Event Production
- Venues
Comic Convention – Click to try this template
These Wix templates and others give you everything you need to promote your event, including photo galleries, integration for Google Maps to provide directions to your event, contact webpages for guests to get more information on events, and more.
2. Site123
Site123 is another website builder that has a reasonable selection of templates, including event templates. While its collection is not as robust as Wix’s, it does cover many popular event categories. Two templates I really like here are the Beer Festival template, and the We Are Getting Married template.Beer Festival – Try this template now
Both templates have sections telling more about the events, a breakdown of what’s happening at each event, and a section where you can get in contact with the organizers. For the Wedding template, you can RSVP for the event. In the Beer Festival template, you can sign up and pay for tickets directly from the website.
3. WordPress.com
WordPress has a larger selection of templates than any other provider on this list, but unless you’re willing to pay to unlock premium templates, your choices will be limited. Most free templates are glorified blogs and not designed specifically for events. An exception, and one of my favorites from WordPress is the Singl template. It’s an excellent choice for events, especially concerts, sporting events, and plays. Designed for music artists, it allows you to showcase an upcoming event, display video clips of the event, and provide details about it.Singl – Click to try this template
If you’re using the Free or the paid Personal plan, you will be limited on your design options. You’ll be locked into the options available only in the templates. If you upgrade to Premium or Business, you can customize HTML and CSS, and you’ll be able to add additional WordPress plug-ins and apps. You will also have access to premium themes.
4. SimpleSite
SimpleSite is another company you can use to create your event’s website, but be forewarned that your options will be limited. For starters, SimpleSite offers only a limited number of themes to choose from. For events, the Blank Company and Senior Home Care Services templates are the ones I find most appropriate. Most of the templates available on SimpleSite are set up in a blog format. By default, you can post about the event, post a schedule of events, and allow customers to contact you. From there, you can add whatever features you need to promote your event or keep visitors updated on future events. Two things I like about SimpleSite are the ability to make your website multilingual, and that all plans offer e-commerce features — even the free plan. SimpleSite allows you to code your website in up to 80 languages to expand its accessibility to a wider audience. This is perfect if you’re hosting an event in a multilingual community. You can also list up to five online store products, which gives you options for ticket sales to your customers.
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The main downside to SimpleSite is that templates are very basic. All templates are set up in a blog-style format, and there’s little variety. Your website may look a bit dated unless you’re really creative. However, they are an excellent starting point for those needing to get a website online quickly. The free plan may work for your website, but you’ll have to use a subdomain, and SimpleSite ads will be displayed. Furthermore, you’ll be limited to 15 webpages. To unlock more features, including unlimited multimedia and video minutes, you’ll need to subscribe to a paid plan.
5. Weebly
While Weebly doesn’t offer the largest selection of event themes, the ones available are some of the most stunning. The first theme that sticks out to me is the Run-Birdseye 2 theme for a Run Against Cancer Marathon. It’s an excellent example of what an events website should look like, with great graphics, sections that describe the event and its mission, and a way to sign up and either volunteer or run in the event.Run-Birdseye 2 – Click to view all weebly’s themes
The Vue template is another excellent example of an events template. It provides a breakdown of speakers, a description of the event, and a section to sign up.
6. Jimdo
Jimdo is another basic website builder that can help you get your events website created quickly. You can choose to use Jimdo’s Dolphin AI program to create your template automatically, or you can set up a website using a template. Jimdo has a limited selection of templates, but I find its Shanghai Francesca and Sunny Meadow Band templates very suitable for events. I particularly like the Sunny Meadow Band template, as you have your basic homepage, along with webpages that talk about Discography and a contact webpage. The discography can be modified to give more details about upcoming events, complete with videos and music, a blog, and even galleries of past events.Sunny Meadow Band – Click to try it now
One thing I like is that if you don’t want any of Jimdo’s templates, you have the option to choose a completely blank template and use it as your own canvas. Also, Jimdo allows you to add your own HTML and CSS code to your templates. You can add third-party apps and widgets, giving you much more design freedom over other sites.