Evento

Author: Colorlib

Updated: October 2026 · v3.0.0

Credits: Images from Unsplash

Evento is a website template for conferences, festivals, seminars, meetups and other live events, built on Bootstrap 5, with a dark design and a red accent. The layout is responsive and mobile-ready and works in all popular web browsers. It comes with five pages: home, speakers, events, news and contact.

The home page has a full-screen hero slider, the event facts, a countdown to the opening day, an about section, the speakers, a pricing table, an events calendar, partner logos and a tickets band. The inner pages add a speakers page with topic bars, counters and speaker bios, a programme page, a news page with a sidebar and search, and a contact page with a working form and a map that loads on click. The page headers scroll with a parallax effect and the header turns into a dark bar when you scroll.

What’s new in 3.0

• Bootstrap 5.3.8 (the earlier release used a Bootstrap 4 beta and jQuery), compiled from Sass together with the theme and its original proportions, and plain JavaScript with no jQuery. Swiper 14 replaces Owl Carousel on the hero slider and the partner logos, Jarallax replaces parallax.js on the page headers, and small built-in modules replace Waypoints, Counter-Up, The Final Countdown and the progress-bar plugin. npm run build (Dart Sass and esbuild) compiles one minified stylesheet and one script.
• Lighter pages: all five pages together went from 20.6 MB and 193 requests to 6.3 MB and 120 requests. Every photo has an AVIF version with the JPEG or PNG as the fallback, real dimensions and lazy loading below the hero, the home page preloads its hero photo with a separate crop for phones, and the preloader that hid the page until everything had loaded is gone.
• No third-party requests: Montserrat is self-hosted, the Ionicons, Linearicons, Font Awesome 4 and et-line icon fonts are replaced by Lucide SVG icons and a small social-logo subset (the Twitter bird is now the X logo), and the Google Maps script is replaced by an OpenStreetMap embed on the contact page that loads only after a click. Before, every page loaded web fonts from Google Fonts and the contact page loaded the Google Maps API.
• Working forms: the contact form and the newsletter send through php/send-email.php and php/subscribe.php, with labels, validation, a spam trap and an in-page message, and the news search filters the posts. Before, the fields had no form around them, so nothing could be sent.
• A countdown that never runs out: it counts to the next edition and rolls on to the following year once the date has passed, and the hero numbers now switch the slides.
• Accessibility: a skip link and a main landmark on every page, one main heading per page, named icon, social and slider controls, visible keyboard focus, zoom no longer blocked, and text contrast that meets WCAG AA, with a deeper red for text and buttons on white.
• Sharper, consistent photos and demo content: new high-resolution hero, header and speaker photos, fictional speakers with their own names and bios, partner wordmarks, a programme and news posts in place of placeholder text, page titles, descriptions and social-sharing tags, and event structured data.