The first thing to turn an event attendee away will be your tacky stock photo on the event website landing page. We’ve had enough of people in suits shaking hands and teenagers with forced smiles and a one sling bag pack.
Here are some websites for you to find free, high-quality stock images at a fraction of the time and effort so that you can divert your energy into more important event planning tasks.
Getrefe offers natural-looking mobile photos spanning categories like business, transport, travel and many others. Great if you want to add a more personal feel to your design!
Snapwiresnaps offers photos from professional photographers with 7 free photos every 7 days! However, the search function is not as powerful as other websites so it’s great if you have time to browse!
Looking for throwback photos? Looking for throwback photos that go centuries back? Then New Old Stock will be your one-stopsolution for vintage photos from public domains!
Basically a google for images, it is extremely helpful if you have something in mind and can’t find it anywhere else! You can also get some demonstration by clicking away on “show me what compfight can do”!
Remember to apply “Creative Commons” in the filter.
Curated by Leeroy, an advertising agency in Montreal, photographers can submit photos but only the best ones go on the website! There are no copyright restrictions for this site.
No attribution is necessary for the photos from here! Stocksnap.io is very nifty as it has a great search function and tracks views and likes for you to get the best photos! Furthermore, it adds photos by the hundreds every week so the possibilities here are endless.
Creative Common License Images
You can search Creative Common License images here: https://search.creativecommons.org/ to find images you can freely use. The search engine returns results from other independent organisations and not from its own repository.
Most of the photos here are under the creative commons public domain dedication, allowing you to copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes without having to get permission. However, some photos may still require attribution!
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One unique thing this event website does is in using the cover photo space at the top to emphasise event details like date and venue. Putting it right at the top as a nice visual allows the organisers to draw greater attention to event details and help their attendees remember the event, or at least find the details more conveniently.
A small but very powerful design element is adding a very thin strip of red at the top of the page. It gives greater coherence to the entire page by aligning the colour scheme to its logo’s colour scheme.
The page also uses the pages function to remove clutter from its main page. By moving important but lengthy information such as FAQs and Terms & Conditions to a different page, the main page can be clean and straight to the point.
The Singapore Yacht Show 2014 event page is all about decluttering and making event information clear and pleasing to the eye.
Designed by EventNook staff themselves, Chill Out’s event website maximises the functions of the EventNook registration and ticketing platform while looking good.
Despite tons of information, the designers managed to balance visuals and words. EventNook’s platform offers flexibility to the event organisers in designing a cover picture at the top as well as change the background.
The event organisers chose to place the ticketing information on the main page. This is a great feature for event organisers who want to make buying tickets easy and effortless for event attendees.
The event organisers have also created various ticket types such as an early bird discount and a group discount ticket that encourages event attendees to bring their colleagues and friends along.
It manages to be both professional-looking as well as laid back and fun, totally befitting a professional networking event.
We just can’t get enough of the mosaic design in the background and how the fonts and colours all align in pastel heaven. You can be extremely creative with your event design on EventNook’s platform without necessarily knowing how to code!
If you don’t have much time to design a whole new EventNook website page, you can easily upload a pre-designed poster and still have a great-looking page!
What EventNook does great is to allow you to add on any kind of information for your event participants that a poster or email newsletter cannot! To help event participants choose the correct T-shirt design, the event organisers included a handy page here.
Santacon is a series of different events spread across 3 days and the event organisers have effectively used EventNook’s functions to highlight information for each day, without cluttering the main page.
We love their humorous design, featuring many Santas hanging on a line, to form a great design border for the poster.
While Santacon has a great poster design, rather than just re-uploading their poster, they made sure to fully utilise EventNook’s online event page by choosing a great pastel green background and also including a smaller banner with all the most essential details under Organizer’s Contact Info!
Vi.bran.se makes use of the multimedia nature of EventNook’s platform with a video. Having multiple forms of content helps the event organisers increase frequency and intensity of attendee engagement.
To add videos, simply click the “insert video” icon and paste the url:
The use of bright colours in the background and foreground, the interesting fonts as well as the video creates a vibrant page indeed!
Get creative on EventNook’s online registration and ticketing platform today!
Recently, we upgraded our WYSIWYG HTML editor to make publishing event information and do visual formatting much easier with creating an online event page.
You can simply use our visual editor to change text style and color, add images, embed youtube, etc. in very simple way with mouse and click. We now also provide the simple way to upload images to the event site if you like to host the images on EventNook platform. Or you can also link your image from your own preferred image platform such as Flickr, Imgur, Facebook , Pinterest or image link from your own website.
Just let us know if you have any feedbacks and we always appreciate your feedbacks!