Customizable content areas are a powerful tool to elevate the user experience by allowing you to embed widgets, videos, hyperlinks, file downloads, and extensive descriptions. This guide outlines the supported customizations and explains how to edit the content area on the following pages:
- About section on the Landing page (classic layout)
- Welcome section on the Reception page
- Additional information in the event segments: Stage, Sessions, and Expo Booths (not available in Webinar events).
Supported customizations
- Multiple heading elements (H1-H3, paragraph)
- Bold, italic, underline, strikethrough formatting
- Adding color to the text
- Turning text into a hyperlink
- Bulleted lists
- Numbered lists
- Inserting images stored on your computer
Note: You can resize and left, center, or right-align images added as files, as well as add alt text.
- Block quotes
- Inserting media as the URL (links will generate a preview for most popular media: GIFs, social media posts, Spotify, Youtube, Google Maps, etc.)
Note: The videos and media have to be set as public for the preview to generate correctly. Once you add the URL to the Content Area, the preview will generate automatically for all supported media types.
List of embeddable media
- Presentations: Google Slides, Prezi, Slideshare.net, Slides.com, Slideserve.com, slide.ly.
- Photo/PDF/Files: Google Drive, Dropbox, Imgur, Wiredrive, Workdrive by Zoho
- Video embeds: Streamable, Youtube, Vimeo, Wistia, Archive.org
- Embed live streams: Twitch, Castr.io, Livestream, Vimeo, LinkedIn Live
- Social feeds: Twitter, Instagram (only posts, videos, and reels, no profiles), Facebook, TikTok
- Calendars and Scheduling: Airtable, Google Calendar, Calendly
- Forms and surveys: 123formbuilder.com, Mentimeter, Google Forms, Microsoft Forms, Cognito Forms
- Fun and Games: BrainyQuote, Kahoot!, Sporcle, Quizlet
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Music and Playlists: Spotify, Soundcloud, Bandcamp, Apple Music, Stitcher, Amazon Music
Note: The list above is an extract of the best tools available on iFrame.ly, the service we use to embed media in content areas. For a complete list of supported embeds check the following URL: https://iframe.ly/domains.json.
Customizing Landing page (classic layout)
To customize a content area on the Landing page (classic layout):
- Go to Event Dashboard > Setup > Basic.
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In the Desciption box, add your text and embedded media.
- Click Save.
✔ Users will see your custom content area on the Landing page.
To learn more, refer to our guide on Setting up landing page: Classic layout.
Customizing Reception
To customize a content area on the Reception page:
- Go to Event Dashboard > Venue > Reception (or to Event Dashboard > Setup > Reception for Webinar events).
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Under Welcome Message, add your text and embedded media.
- Click Save.
✔ Attendees will see your custom Welcome message on the Reception page.
To learn more, refer to our guide on Setting up Reception page.
Customizing Stage, Sessions, and Expo Booths
To add a content area to one of the event segments (not available in Webinar events):
- Go to Event Dashboard > Venue > Stages/Sessions/Expo.
- Open the settings of your Stage, Session or Expo Booth.
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Under Additional information, add your text and embedded media.
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Click Save.
✔ Once Additional Information is added, attendees will be able to scroll down or click Show more information to review the content.
To learn more, refer to our guides Stage tutorial, Expo Tutorial, Session tutorial.