brentonwebster

Thanks for your reply.

The main site will be pretty different from the event subsites. The main site will be a pretty classic corporate information site including numerous pages about the company, blog etc… The event subsites will be a series of about 5-8 pages about the event (the home page, info, details, tickets etc…).

Although the main site will contain a blog, I’m essentially using WordPress as a simple CMS.

Each event site will differ from the main site in the following ways:
– layout: the main site will be a standard header + 2 column layout in the body + footer layout, each event subsite has it’s own layout, which will differ from the main site
– header: the main site will have a consistent header across all pages, the header for each event subsite will be different to the main site
– fonts and colors: will be different for the main site and each event subsite
– footer: I haven;t decided on this yet, but the contents of the footer might actually be the same or pretty similar between the main site and the event subsites (however, the fonts, colors will differ and will match the respective event subsite).

The look and feel of each event subsite will be very different from the main site in fact, unless visitors inspect the URL, they could easily think they’re on a different web site all together.

Note that within an event subsite, all pages (5-8 of them) will follow the same “theme” for that event subsite.

Your recommendation seems to be to use Multisite. Is there a way I can have integrated search from the parent site across the subsites?

Cheers,
Brenton