Digital Engagement (DE) are please to offer a specialised academic conference web site solution to Victoria staff responsible for running conferences. Based on Wordpress, the solution is able to meet any/all of the following requirements (meaning that some modules can be disabled if you have an alternative solution for that specific need (e.g. EasyChair to collect and manage proposals/papers)):
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- Art as Dialogue, the 8th International Art in Early Childhood conference
- "Effective and Humane": Restorative and Māori Justice Approaches to the prison crisis
- Experimental Psychology Conference 2019
- LEW 2018 – Conference on Labour, Employment and Work
- SAANZ – Sociological Association of Aotearoa New Zealand Conference 2018
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- You won't get a customer design and build web site, as this would cost many times the asking price.This means you must accept the design and some functional modules as is, a trade-off in order to access a support, cost-effective solution that is simple enough you to learn how to use
- You must prepare your own content. This means you must source images (feel free to ask Image Services for assistance), prepare and specific logos or design files, decide on the site map, write the content, specify ticket categories, draft the registration form details, etc.
- As much of the design and content must be prepared before the developer starts building the site, as it is cheaper to 'do it right once' rather than revisit it many times.
- You will need to learn how to administer the site. This means managing users (in your team), making small edits, using the registration module to answer questions about payments, etc.
- We only support credit card payments using Visa and Mastercard.
- We only support payments into the main University bank account. Our solution is probably unsuitable if you require conference payments into an account with the Foundation or the Research Trust.
- You will need to promote the site, as web sites are passive in nature. Think through how you will inform potential attendees of the site and drive traffic to it.
- You will need to reconcile payments between the Wordpress plug-in and the financial reports. This isn't the developer's job.
There are some options if you are unable or unwilling to do these things yourself:
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