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Convene
Convene is a site template designed to help organizations quickly create professional websites for conferences, summits, workshops, festivals, and community gatherings. Event websites typically need to present a large amount of information in a clear and structured way, including schedules, sessions, speakers, venue details, and participation options. Convene provides a thoughtfully organized foundation that enables organizers to showcase all essential event information while guiding visitors toward key actions such as registering, attending, or learning more about the program.
The template focuses on delivering a streamlined and engaging experience for event attendees. Visitors can easily explore the event overview, browse the agenda, discover sessions, and learn about speakers or performers through clearly structured pages. Dedicated sections allow organizers to highlight keynote speakers, featured sessions, important announcements, and event highlights, ensuring that the most important information is accessible at a glance.
Convene is designed to support a wide range of event formats, including professional conferences, academic symposiums, college festivals, training programs, and industry meetups. Its flexible structure accommodates both single-day and multi-day events, allowing schedules and sessions to be presented in a clear, easy-to-navigate format that works well across devices.
The template also includes space for sponsors and partners, helping organizers recognize supporters while adding credibility to the event. Additional sections provide room for venue information, travel guidance, updates, and contact details so attendees can plan their participation with confidence.
By providing a structured starting point and intuitive content organization, Convene enables event organizers to launch polished event websites quickly while keeping the focus on clear communication, strong storytelling, and a smooth informational experience for visitors.
Frequently asked questions
Simplytest is a great service. We were in fact inspired by it. If you have not tried it, you should try it out. Seriously. Here's the link. Drupal Forge is a community service - just like Simplytest. Here are the similarities and differences:
- Like Simplytest, Drupal Forge (DF) lets you create 6 hour temporary disposable Drupal Dev sites.
- On DF, you can optionally add a Cloud Dev Environment (CDE) to your Drupal Dev sites.
- With a CDE, your Dev sites are automatically paused at after 6-hours instead of getting deleted.
- You can un-pause your sites and continue where you left off.
- You can keep extending the working life of your Dev sites (in increments of 6 hours).
- With a CDE, you get a browser-based VS Code IDE (aka Cloud IDE), pre-installed with Composer and Drush.
- Full access to the MySQL database with PhpMyAdmin - a browser-based db admin tool.
- Invite and collaborate with other developers on the Code IDE - think parallel programming.
- Download your site and use it on your Local Dev Environment.
- Go live with your site - deploy it to an external server on Digital Ocean, Light Sail, etc. Connect your custom URL to it. Maintain the Dev site on DF.