Eventage is a leading professional conference and event management company dedicated to the healthcare sector. With over 20 years of experience, they have built a strong reputation for delivering flagship events in collaboration with government bodies, the NHS, medical societies, academic institutions, and other health-related organisations.
After working with Eventage for some years on the KJP Paediatric Conference we were asked to take on the task of revamping both the Eventage website, and the International Thoracic Oncology Nursing forum (ITONF) website.
We worked closely with Eventage to strip older content back and give it a fresher look, with more up to date content.
The site was mapped out in a Google doc and the content collated under tabs so we could plan out how the navigation menu should work. As with the ITONF site, we used tabs to serve content rather than separate pages which allowed us to minimise the amount of dropdowns there are in the main menu. Doing this on Google Docs works well as we can collaborate and comment easily rather than emails piling up throughout the design and development stage.
We utilised GeneratePress for this website, again creating a child theme and using CSS classes in the pages and posts to make sure there was a consistent style across the site. GeneratePress can be used as a standalone theme framework with all the block settings doing the heavy lifting with styles. But it’s easy for that to break if someone decides to change something, which is why we prefer to use child themes.
There is quite a substantial use of CSS animations in this website, but they are light and do not slow page load. They are mostly used to lazy-load text on scrolling. We also used an inner box shadow on the half-page sections (shown above right) to give them some dynamism when hovered over.
The responsive mobile settings include an off-canvas navigation menu, activated from the hambuger menu ( ) in the top right of the screen. The off canvas nav menu will also come into play on thinner tablet resolutions.
