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Event venue · Knoxville, TN
Celebration Event & Venue
A Knoxville event venue with no website and no social media needed a first online home that planners could trust.
- Industry
- Event venue
- Location
- Knoxville, TN
- Year
- 2026
- What I did
- Web design
- Development
- Local SEO foundations
- Image optimization
- Launch
- Stack
- HTML/CSS
- JavaScript
- Vercel
The challenge
What the business needed.
Celebration Event & Venue is an indoor event space on Central Avenue Pike in Knoxville that holds up to 280 guests. Before this project it had no website and no social media, so couples and event planners had nowhere online to see the room or check basic details.
Venue shoppers compare several places at once. The questions that decide a shortlist (capacity, catering rules, alcohol, minimum booking time, price) needed answers before the first phone call.
The solution
What I built.
Pages that match how planners decide
Separate About, Events, Gallery, Pricing, FAQ, and Contact pages, so each question has a home and a link that can be shared.
The deciding facts, up front
Capacity, minimum booking time, tables and chairs, outside catering and food trucks, and the alcohol permit rule appear on the homepage as a scannable strip and a checklist.
Two ways to start
“Request a Quote” and “Schedule a Tour” calls to action, plus a tap-to-call bar on phones.
Fast photography
Venue photos are served as AVIF and WebP in several sizes, with the hero image preloaded and fonts self-hosted.
Structured data that matches the page
EventVenue structured data with the address, capacity, and amenities shown on the site.
Lighthouse record
Measured, not estimated.
Only categories that were actually tested are shown with a score. A dash means that category has not been recorded yet. Scores change over time, so treat these as a dated snapshot.
Mobile
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Accessibility: not recorded
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Best Practices: not recorded
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SEO: not recorded
Tested October 14, 2026 · PageSpeed Insights · median of 6 runs · original report link not saved
Desktop
Not recorded yet.
In their words
Beautiful design and easy to use. The website showcases our venue far better than social media alone.
What this project shows
Skills on display.
- Launching a business’s first online presence
- Answering pre-sale questions before the phone call
- Image-heavy pages that still load quickly on phones
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