MMPI Canada produces and manages over 55 seminars, conferences, trade and consumer shows every year across Canada and the United States. As a well known entity, MMPI Canada produces events in many sectors ranging from construction, design, craft, art, real estate, furniture, furnishings and food.
Ready to revamp their existing website, MMPI Canada approached Parachute with a well organized work plan and wish list for their new web presence. Working together, we were able to produce a website design to encompasses MMPI’s individual creativity, but also serves functional needs as well.
The new site features a slick design which is easily managed by MMPI using WordPress as a content management platform. The website administrator can easily login and add or update content, images and events.
A Key challenge we faced in organizing and developing the website was the unusually long lists of sub navigation for the events sections. To ensure all events were displayed above the fold when the drop down menus were activated, we employed some nifty CSS and Javascript to coax the third-level menus to open and split evenly to ensure maximum accessibility.
In addition to the front-end website features open to the general public, we developed a secure behind-the-scenes or mini-intranet section of the website. MMPI employees are granted access via username and password to this section of the site which features company directory and contact information, as well as corporate biographies and internal company documents for download. This section of the site is also easily managed using WordPress by the website administrator.
Our Solution:
- Slick website design which encompasses MMPI Canada’s creative flare
- Development of the new design on the WordPress CMS platform
- Setup and customization of sortable events calendar
- Setup and development of secure client-side intranet.
