They already had a very in-depth website, but the city of Marne-la-Vallée recently had an event-specific website designed to cover its Sustainable Development Conference (in French only) on February 5, 2009. So what's the purpose of an event-specific website anyway? First of all, it lets organizations or companies announce an upcoming event, provide online coverage, relay news as it takes place, or report on it afterwards.

Since you can't be everywhere at once, event-specific websites let you attend seminars or conferences you're interested in...after the fact. In a nutshell: you no longer need to attend an event to actually "see" it. You can get access to it through video broadcasts on the web, within days (or even within the hour) of the said event.

Decked out in green... an "eco-citizen" site
Let's take a look at the Marne-la-Vallée website for the Sustainable Development conference. For starters, the site design proudly exhibits the colors corresponding to the specifically "green" event. It offers videos of the workshops and the debate...interviews of the main players, whether speakers or decision-makers, and an overview of some sustainable development projects (a noteworthy example: the eco-neighborhoods).

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