From late October 2025, we’re introducing the new Modern event website builder!

This article is about your event website - your promotional website. An event website is not interactive - if you're looking for information about creating an interactive registration site, for your attendees, presenters, exhibitors etc to add details and pay online, please see the articles about interactive (registration) sites.

Also, although there are similarities, features described in this article aren't necessary available in websites created with the Event Info Site portal.

This article is about the Modern event website builder. For information about the Legacy event website builder, please refer to the separate article.

The Event Website Builder (accessed under Event Website in the Online Panel) lets you build a device-responsive website to promote your event or meeting.

You can only have one event website per event.

In the Online Panel, under “New event website”, choose “Modern” (instead of “Legacy”).

Give the website a name and select “Create”.

You can see what each template looks like by hovering over it and selecting “Preview”.

When ready, hover and select “Use this template”

The builder will open in a new tab.

We recommend your first step should be to go into the builder and add a Coming Soon page so that visitors to the URL will only see that while you’re building.

In the event website builder, click the hamburger menu (top left) – when you hover over this, it says “CMS” (for ‘content management system’ – so it’s where you’ll find the over-arching content settings for your site).

Then choose “Assets”, and then look down the bottom of that menu for “Project Settings”:

In your Modern event website builder, you can add System Pages such as Coming Soon, 404 Not Found, or Under Maintenance.

You can find these in the builder, via CMS (hamburger menu, top left) > Assets > Project settings> System Pages (the icon shows a page with a cog on it)

*For “Coming Soon” and “Maintenance” pages, you can also put redirects on the pages. See "Redirects" later in this article.

Toggle on the “Coming Soon” page to set up a temporary page that visitors will see while your website is under construction.

Once you've enabled this page, you can edit it using the “edit” icon to the right.

In the page editor, click the countdown component, then using the hourglass icon on the countdown toolbar, you can adjust the countdown clock to set the exact time, date and time zone for when visitors can expect the site to go live.

You can also remove the countdown clock altogether (using the trash can/rubbish bin icon), click the image to change it, alter the text, etc.

Alternatively, while building your site, you can protect it by switching on "Protected Project" page in System Pages. This will generate a password that can be used to access the site (and without it, the site can't be viewed).

This is different to protecting just one page ("Protected Page") - for which you can choose your own password. (See later section in this article.)

We’ll take a brief look at how to edit text, images etc later in this article. You can also use the Help videos inside the builder ("question mark" icon, in the bottom right toolbar of each page editor).

Go back to the EventsAir tab (next to the builder tab) after creating your site.

In the Online Panel, under Event Website, you’ll now see something like the below, where “My Example Website” is the name you added in when creating your site (which also becomes part of the URL).

Click “Settings” at the top right of this section.

You’ll see the date when your event website is live until (this will be 6 months after the end of your event).

If you change your event site URL, this will update in the builder.

You can also delete the site (content) from here, or add a custom domain.

To add a custom domain to your event website, you need to have already purchased the custom domain. After typing in the custom domain and pressing the “Attach domain” button, you’ll be shown the DNS settings and you should review and edit them as needed.

Talk to your IT department for more information.

Whether you’re using a template or starting from scratch, your first task will be to change or set up your website structure.

If you chose a template, the template page names probably won’t be what you want for your site.

First, let’s look more closely at what’s under “Assets > Pages”. (Note – this is different to the Project Settings > System pages menu where you added the “Coming Soon” page.)

Pages are listed here in alphabetical order (so if you change a page name, the order will change) but this doesn’t change the order in which they appear in the actual site Menu.

In this Assets > Pages screen, you’ll see page names listed, and to the right of each one, under the “Actions” heading, three icons:

Edit, Copy, and Delete (trash can/rubbish bin)

The Edit button takes you directly into the page content editor, so only select that when you’re ready to edit the actual page content.

The Copy & Delete icons are self-explanatory.

Click the NAME of the page (on the left) to edit the overall settings for the page (such as name and URL slug).

This will open up the page settings, where you can change the page name, URL slug, and status.

Note that changing the page name alone will NOT change the URL slug, so you need to do that manually when altering an existing page.

The “Published” status has a dropdown arrow next to it, and the green dot indicates that the page is published.

You can change a page to “Draft” here (or in the builder) but it can only be added to a Navigation menu when the status is “Published”.

You can also link to Published pages (but not Draft pages) via internal hyperlinks / buttons.

If you change the page status to "Protected", you can choose a password.

Protected Pages are visible in Navigation menus but site visitors need the password to see the content. (To set them up, you need to have enabled “Protected Pages” in Project Settings.)

After you set the password when you change the publication status to “Protected Page”, you could use this for a “VIPs Only” page or similar.

The page looks a bit like this when someone clicks on it from the menu. You can edit what it looks like from the Project Settings screen (similar to how you could edit the Coming Soon page).

In the page settings section, you'll see a menu along the top, showing CONTENT, TRANSLATE, SEO, SOCIAL and CODE. This is so you can also edit other page qualities, including by adding translations, SEO settings, Social Media thumbnails and text, and under CODE you can add extra CSS code to the page.

Return to the pages menu via the CMS (hamburger menu, top left corner) > Assets > Pages.

Add new page button is at the bottom of the section.

You can then Add in the page Title, Slug and Description for the page.

Be sure to change the page status to "Published" (top right) if you want to be able to add the page to a navigation menu.

After making changes to pages, you'll want to check under Assets > Menu and add/remove pages as needed, and review their navigation settings.

Go to CMS (Hamburger menu, top left corner) > Assets > Menus

If you’re using a template, you’ll already have a Main Menu.

If not, Create a new Menu, name it, then select it.

You can delete pages from the menu, or select pages in the left-hand column then add them to the menu.

For each page in the menu, choose the Cog icon (Settings) to check the Display name.

You’ll need to review the navigation label and other settings here for any pages you changed from the original template.

However, if you want to, you could have your pages called something different in the back end to how they appear in the front end.

Remember to save your changes.

Go back to the Pages menu, and select the edit icon for the Home page.

To adjust menu settings:

Where you see the Menu element (which may be set to “Make it Hamburger”, in which case it won’t show the page names by default – just a hamburger icon), click the top right arrow at the top of the menu element box to open the toolbar.

Select the “hamburger/menu” icon in the toolbar, on the left, to show the menu options.

If you’ve created different menus (under Assets > Menus) you can select them here (for example, the one in the screenshot below says "Main Menu").

When editing each page, you’ll find the tools quite intuitive.

You can add Elements using the plus icon on the left.

After adding an element (or using the existing page elements), you can easily drag to resize columns or images, click on a text box or image to edit it, and more.

Use the Device icons (bottom left hand column) to preview your page.

Use the Help videos (question mark icon, toolbar bottom right of builder) inside the builder to find out more.

When you’re happy with your changes, use the Update button to save them. (You can also use this button to clear the layout or revert to draft. A draft page can’t appear in a menu, though.)

You can re-order page blocks using the "Re-order Blocks" tool.

There are many ways to make your event website more accessible using the Modern builder. Read more here.

To load your own fonts, look under Styling, then Typography:

Under “Elements” (plus icon), look for Agenda. You can just drag it into your page.

Similar to the Coming Soon page – you can add a redirect on a set URL, so that will instead show the visitor the maintenance page.

Once enabled, this page is automatically shown if the user enters an invalid URL (e.g. old link or mis-spelled link).

You can redirect to a specific link or page by editing the Back to Homepage’s link settings:

These page can be found under: CMS (Hamburger, top-left) > Assets > Project Settings > Redirects (The icon that has a circle with an arrow bouncing off of it.)

This page allows you to put in redirects, in case you have updated a URL, or would like a page to redirect to (for example) your Under Maintenance page.

To do this, you need to put the original URL slug (the section after .com, .site etc.) add a space and then put the new slug.

E.g. if you put: /our-sponsors /sponsors

...it would mean you used to have an "our-sponsors" page, but have now shortened it to just "sponsors" - but you still want to make sure anyone with the old link is properly re-directed.

You can add more than one re-direct.