Top 10 Kentico Websites for November 2014

Twinings have provided tea enthusiasts with the finest products for over 300 years – making them one of Britain’s most trusted brands.
They wanted a responsive e-commerce site that would provide both trade and consumers a secure way to pay online while delivering a personalised user journey. To make sure that Twinings’ strong e-commerce vision wasn’t compromised, Ridgeway worked with Kentico to define requirements for Kentico 8.1, as the site is built on it. Kentico’s personalisation and automation modules are also used to give the user a personalised journey and SAP and MetaPack are communicated with it for ruthless efficiency. Although initially launched for the UK and Ireland, the site is designed to support a low-cost global rollout.

Bank Austria is a member of UniCredit, one of the largest European banking groups. The bank maintains an extensive network in Austria, with about 7,000 employees serving customers in some 250 branches.
The main goal was to establish a new and consistent e-commerce channel to sell banking products online for both, private and business customers. The site is kept completely responsive, to be accessible for most clients.
Customers now have one concrete site to gather information about all banking products such as banking accounts, credit cards and savings accounts. Most of the products can be ordered completely online, without the need of visiting a branch. udm Web Solutions created a fully responsive website mainly using the CMS and E-Commerce features of Kentico 8. The Kentico API is used for custom development on special backend features.

Wire Belt is a global manufacturer and supplier of conveyor belts and conveyor systems.
The company embarked on a website redesign to create a digital presence that more clearly reflected the quality of their products and their reputation in the industry. The new, mobile-ready Wire Belt website successfully promotes their entire product line and positions the company as a global leader in the field with different versions of the site for US, UK and German audiences.
It was necessary that Wire Belt chose a CMS that supported localized sites to help overcome language barriers with their clients around the world. The website also features custom search capabilities and detailed product pages that showcase Wire Belt’s differentiating features and support sales initiatives. Boston Interactive developed the website using Kentico 8, allowing for website updates, scalability and maintenance. In the two weeks since the launch of the UK Wire Belt site, there has been a 47% increase in page views, 24% increase in session duration and 5% improvement in bounce rate. There has also been a jump in leads and calls since the website’s launch.

The Austrian company Philoro Edelmetall GmbH deals in precious metals and operates multiple branches in Central Europe as well as several localized Online Shops. Its customers include banks, financial advisors, foundations and private customers.
The main goal was to facilitate the online trade with high-value metals mostly in the form of coins and bars. With the redesign of philoro.com and the relaunch with Kentico 7, the aim was not only to create an appealing and user-friendly layout, but mostly to increase sales by providing live data and improving the customer journey. The main objective of the project was to consolidate all of Philoro’s national websites and online stores to a central platform that would represent a unified corporate image and meet local and global requirements in an optimal way.
The main focus lied on the e-commerce functionalities and integration of live trading data provided by Xignite (precious metal exchange rates), BörseGo (USD-EUR exchange rates, precious metal exchange rates backup) and OlsenData (EUR-CHF exchange rates). After the relaunch, Philoro.com experienced 50% less bounce-rates and an increase of 160% in sales.

Warhammer 40k Regicide is the latest instalment in the Warhammer 40k games franchise. The game is being developed by Hammerfall Publishing, a high-tech independent game development and publishing studio based in Sydney, Australia.
The main aim of the site is to promote the upcoming game by allowing the community to see preview screens, discuss the game and buy merchandise. Webcoda implemented the new Kentico 8 platform and created a fully responsive website to reach the audience on all devices. They adapted the Kentico forums and Shopping cart to be branded with the distinct Warhammer look, which was no easy feat considering the discussion forums are quite complex.
The rich community and e-commerce features include forums, badges and integrations with Stripe for payment, Shipwire for order fulfilment, Hydra for in-game achievements and Disqus for blog comments. Even though the site is brand new, there have already been over 3000 posts on the forum.

Morgan CODA is a unique team of clothiers, creative designers, and technology experts that aim to bring high quality custom-tailored clothes to their clients via an online retail store.
Morgan CODA was looking for a website that would allow the customer to view their creation as they went through the process, so they could see what the final product would look like before ordering. They also needed the site to integrate with their manufacturers ordering system for faster order fulfillment. The last thing they were looking for was a responsive site, to give all customers on all devices the same experience.
The site was built on Kentico 7 and features a highly customizable e-commerce implementation. Customers can enter their measurements (after learning how to take them) and customize almost every aspect of the item in the process.
The Morgan CODA site launched in September of 2014 and sales have steadily increased over the past few months. Morgan CODA has continued to raise capital and is planning on opening a brick in mortar store in NYC in 2015.

Chartered Professional Accountants of British Columbia (CPABC) is the new organization that represents BC’s more than 29,000 Chartered Professional Accountants.
The main goal of the CPABC website was to build a great-looking online presence that would allow their members, students, prospective students, and other visitors to find the information they need as quickly as possible. Simultaneously, the organization needed an intuitive Content Management System that would allow them to continuously grow the site.
Kentico 8.1 was chosen to build this responsive website. CPABC recognized that their members, students, and others access services used mobile platforms (21% of all visitors). As an innovative, leading-edge organization they needed to be able to communicate to this important audience in a responsive fashion. CPABC‘s new and successful website now welcomes more than 20,000 unique visitors per month.

The College of Veterinarians of Ontario licenses approximately 4,500 veterinarians and accredits over 2,100 veterinary facilities across the province.
Powered by Kentico 8, this fully responsive website represents a major step forward in terms of the organization's online presence and has become an invaluable tool by providing essential information relating to the regulation and practice of veterinary medicine in Ontario.
Though real-time integration with internal systems, the CVO website is home to the popular "Find A Veterinarian" database, which allows users to search for veterinarians and practices based on their city, postal code, or geolocation. Results are then sorted by distance and displayed visually using the Google Maps API, making easier it than ever before for users to find a veterinarian near them.
The new website launched to rave reviews from the organization's membership, and Kentico's overall ease-of-use combined with it's advanced workflow capabilities and customization options have been a hit with the client.

Seaco is a global shipping company with 14 offices worldwide and a diversified container fleet of 1,319,925 TEU.
The client wanted to create a marketing website that would serve as a great source of information and a gateway to their customer portal (Seaweb). Seaco wished to emit a more personal, friendly feel to their customers, as well as enable global customers to find the most relevant Seaco contact details and advertise their services clearly. The website needed to be fully responsive to provide an optimal experience for all devices. Kentico 8 was the clear choice for Seaco because of its social and online marketing features and multilingual capabilities.

The Santa Clara Public Library District serves more than 418,000 people living in Santa Clara County, California.
They moved to Kentico after being frustrated with the lack of control over their prior CMS. It was complicated to do minor changes and most of the time would require working with the outside developer to update navigation, footer links, and so forth – also, many customizations to the CMS were not an option due to proprietary code and hosting setup. To make any changes to their previous website, the client had to contact their host/designer and wait a week or more. The client wanted the flexibility to change their website whenever the need arose. They also wanted to make their current design responsive and continue to integrate with their library catalog at Bibliocommons.
PMC recommended Kentico 8, which met all the client’s requirements and had easy-to-implement features like a single blog that propagates content throughout site, responsive design and custom library-specific widgets for catalog integration and podcasting. Using Kentico’s custom tables, the partner was able to implement a caching solution for the Bibliocommons API (library catalog system). The API is limited to two requests per second so this was critical for the client in order to build the desired sliders.
The new site has enabled the client to make changes that allow them to better adapt to the needs of the community and have full control over the environment.