The show's website
Every show gets a public site on its own address, with your branding, the floor plan, exhibitor and sponsor directories, and the sign-up flow — and it changes what it sells as the show progresses.
Every show gets a public website on its own address, under your branding rather than a Bidancer-branded listing page. It is where exhibitors apply, sponsors buy tiers, and visitors register.
What it carries
The show itself
Dates, venue, description, and how to get there.
Exhibitor directory
Who is confirmed, updating as the floor fills.
Sponsor directory
Grouped by tier, with the prominence each tier was sold on.
The floor plan
So a visitor can see the hall before arriving, and an exhibitor can see what is left.
Speakers and programme
Where the show has one.
The sign-up flow
Separate routes in for exhibiting, sponsoring and attending.
It changes as the show progresses
The site is not one fixed page. What it leads with follows the stage the show is in.
While you are selling the floor
Once published, the site is pointed at exhibitors and sponsors: the plan, the packages, what taking part costs and what it includes.
Once the floor is full
When you close onboarding, the site turns to face visitors — who is exhibiting, what is on, why to come, how to register.
You do not have to remember to switch it
The change follows the show's stage. There is no separate "swap the website over" task to forget in the week you are busiest.
Editing it
A section-based editor: choose blocks, order them, fill them in. Deliberately not a freeform page builder.
That constraint is the point. A freeform canvas produces a site that looks right on the machine it was designed on and breaks on a phone the week of the event, and organisers are not usually sitting with a designer in the fortnight before doors open. Blocks mean every show's site is usable, on every screen, without anyone checking.
Publishing changes
Content goes live when you publish it. There is no approval queue on the site's copy — the gate was on the show being approved, and that already happened.
Making it work
Create a show
What to fill in when setting a show up, in the order that avoids rework, and what each stage gate actually checks before it lets you move on.
Floor plan & booths
Draw the hall, divide it into areas, lay out and price booths by position, import an existing plan, and let exhibitors pick their own space from the live floor.