Following a request from Charlie Freeman, I looked into moving the ECM countdown timer from the bottom of the main page to the top. When I originally set this up for ECM 2016 placing it at the top messed up the page layout, so it was relegated to the bottom.
I've now managed to get it to work OK at the top, and also to place it at the top of every page rather than just the main one. Looking forward to it already!