Other Event Sites.... Layout and Navigation Inspiration

Before designing my wireframes I wanted to look at some other event sites for layout and navigation inspiration. Though Reading and Glastonbury provide me with a good basis to add to I wanted to see how other events have designed their sites in order to cross reference.

Source: http://reasons.to/

The Reasons To Be Creative website employs separate but long pages, and whilst the home and speaker pages rely heavily on images there is a great deal of text (I think because theres only 6 separate pages all of the information has been very tightly condensed), this does admittedly fill the space but it also means that theres a lot of visually uninteresting content.The main reasons logo banner remains at the top of each page which ensures the overall continuity. The simple black and white colour scheme keeps everything very clean, only small flashes of colour (pale blue and orange) interrupt the black and white which helps to clarify the various sections and subtitles. As a general rule images occupy the top section of the page before columns of text are introduced. The text itself has been carefully divided into columns which means that its more readable (something that I plan to consider in order to make my event site usable). Although it's not perfect Reasons To Be Creative manages and divides a lot of content and it has a well balanced layout and easy to use navigation and I particularly like  the speakers splash page which looks really well ordered and visually interesting. 

Source: http://www.offf.ws/#/

The Offf site utilises a long one page layout- the top navigation scrolls down to each section, sections that are heavily reliant on images. Each of the headings/subheadings are emphasised by different coloured backgrounds which adds some additional points of interest to the clean black and white colour scheme. Black and white seems to be a common denominator in a lot of the sites that I have previously researched  (I think it's because it allows for clean professional design that can be made visually individual through the introduction of additional colour). Though I like the one scroll page layout - the splash sections with the artists images look very cramped-so If I decided to use a scrolling page then I would have to very careful with the amount of content included.

Source:http: //ymuno.com/en/lineup

I love the overall styling of the YMUNO site (a Welsh festival)- its professional and clean (again a black and white colour scheme) but the fonts used along with the bold images and overall layout gives the site a quirky and individual almost folky country esc theme. I like how images segment small sections of text everything has a nice amount of breathing room and they have also employed a parallax (on the home page- which is a long scroll) on parts of the background which integrates some nice textural photographical elements- breaking up the off white block background which also simultaneously generates a striped effect. It uses separate pages but it works because aside from the home page they aren't very long and the content is easy to read.