The Controls Institute approached me to redesign their website. When I first looked at controlsinstitute.org I could see why. The navigation on the left is unnecessary since it has some of the navigation items from the top navigation. Going through the site I noticed a lot of wasted space and the use of 3 columns on all the pages limiting the amount space that can be used for the design.
I simplified the site with one navigation and a hover effect that lets the user know what page they are currently on.
I also put all of the conference information on a single page but left the conference sponsors on the bottom of the non ECCM pages to make other companies jealous.
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The redesign brightened up the site, made the information easier to access and a lot more logical plus the client was very happy.