> “I want to set up a simple website for local events like our quarterly golf event we are doing. Something to announce it, have someone opt-in or out (rsvp)?”
I’ve never created a site like this. Instead of my usual flopping around the internet trying to figure it out on my own, I thought I’d try something new and start here instead. Can anybody give me clues of where to start and what components I need to build this with Blocs?
Sounds like a fun website to build and especially with the golf bit! as I am a huge golfer this would be fun !!
But you build it like any other website in Blocs and you just need Blocs - good images, the copy from your brother and all info he needs…and let your creativity flourish!
You can just create a form for people to show their interest etc…so many ways to do it, with Blocs now you can even do a link for payments online via something like Stripe.
I appreciate the feedback, I truly do, you guys are the best! I should probably clarify that I’m no stranger to Blocs or Eldar’s Master offerings…I’ve been a subscriber of his for years, and I’ve built many Blocs websites. I’ve just never built one where I need to implement an RSVP list for customer appreciation-type events. From what I’ve researched, I understand I need to use a 3rd party service like Calendly or Eventbrite. But finding one for this seemingly simple task is becoming a bit daunting, with most offerings being total overkill. What I’m asking is: What do you guys use or recommend for this? Additionally, how easy is it to integrate into a Blocs site?
EventBrite is pretty good. And free for free events. I’m actually implementing Calendly at the moment.
Managing is through the 3rd party itself. And each service will give you embedding code so it’s straight forward.
For something simple. Like just a form. You could update the event pages yourself and have a standard form, with a little JavaScript you could pre-populate fields like event name etc pulling titles from the page.
I have used EventBright several times - and as @PeteSharp said its free for free events, i have had clients use it for registration - but its all been on the EventBright and not incorporated into mine, but im sure it would work very well.
The way I would 100% do it is I would look into SiteLok as it has lots of options and you can create groups for various events and loads of form options, but also capturing a database of everyone where you can email back out to so if your planning a new event say next year you email everyone who has done the different events, or if you have a Golf group - you just click on that group and your email out for the next event direct from Sikelok targeting all the golfers!
You can incorporate payments with PayPal and Stripe for the events too within sitelok, there are loads of free plugins offering so many other things which might come in useful.
I use it a LOT! - used it twice this week already for 2 different websites that go live today to thousands of people for a live event, one is live in 10 mins ! and one at midday UK time.
Drop Adrian an email at SiteLok - he is really helpful.
Yeah! - I saw something you did a while ago and that looked amazing - not sure if its on your websites yet? I have not done too much on the styling side of things, as just embed forms onto the page and match the font up and colours of the buttons and it works nice - what I have started doing to keep the websites clean is have the forms etc pop up in Modals, looks nice and clean.
Thinking more of what @bunnydeath wants and these events will be chargeable I guess - so I would deep into sitelok, but there is a learning curve, but guess that is with everything, but Adrian helps so much when your starting off with it - he is great. As this is one website, when its set up, the rest should be pretty simple once you get the hand of creating groups etc.
@bunnydeath I suggest you get more information about what they need before you go any further.
I haven’t taken it any further due to other projects. And I probably will ditch that idea for the moment. Adrian who makes Sitlok is really good. I contacted him with a complicated use case, and he had some good ideas to make it work.
to match your design.