Kentico Top 10 Websites for April 2017

Strata don’t just build houses; they make homes. With a growing collection of new homes across the UK, as well as an array of lifestyle events, charity work, and insights, they needed a new website to communicate it. A complete redesign of the website was needed to match Strata’s brand direction while also utilizing a new customer journey. Pixelbuilders worked to integrate Salesforce and made great use of Custom Tables, User Management, and Scheduled Tasks, among other features. Since the website's launch, average page load speed has been reduced by nearly 2 seconds, and form conversion rates are up 46%. 

ZeeOne is a new TV channel, based in Germany, which is run by the Indian media company Zee Entertainment Limited. With zeeone.de, they are promoting their Bollywood-themed content to their German audience and are offering an integrated 7-day catch-up service to watch shows and movies online (in case one misses the original airing). For optimizing the performance of the site, Citytech has implemented the Lazy Loader handler to load the Custom table data. Key achievements include more than 35K concurrent requests on the server, a visitor sometimes spends more than four hours on this site, and 50% of users see video which is the target of the site.

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Dynamic Networks is an IT Systems and Support company based in Leeds, UK who are going through a significant period of growth. A decision was made to develop a new website, after a number of months working on PPC and SEO strategies. The website uses widget-driven page templates allowing huge flexibility in both the type of content that could be created and uploaded to the site and how that content is displayed. In the first week since launch, the new Dynamic Networks website has successfully increased on-site engagement metrics. Page views increased by 77%, pages per session increased by 108%, the average session duration increased by 92%, and the bounce rate decreased by 42%.

The Tourism Ireland Trade site provides the visitor with updated information about the island of Ireland such as the latest news and events, local market and industry contact details, touring suggestions, and a range of maps, images, and brochures available for download. Strata3 were tasked with creating a website that conveyed the country in a refreshing way. It was important that the new site features contemporary, intuitive design and layout, with pages maintaining consistent branding. It was also important that relevant photography was used to increase the visual appeal. The website also utilizes customized Kentico widgets to allow for the greatest flexibility, and for ease of content editing.

Vivid Property identified a service gap in the property management industry in Perth where information is cluttered, outdated, a real need to differentiate themselves from competitors and stand out and get noticed. Their goal is to enhance the level of service available to tenants and landlords and offer clients a complete end-to-end integrated team of specialists to manage each property. Kentico gave the client the ability to be flexible, set page permissions and workflow for various content editors. Using the media library provided one central place to hold all their images. The website will be soon integrated with MantisProperty—Real Estate Software, which will make all processes even easier.

The overall objective for the City of Cockburn website was to bring their 13-year old website into the modern age in a new framework that is beautiful, responsive, and accessible. The key objective was to create a stunning user interface together with an accessible user experience. Accessibility consideration was at the core of the project, and Alyka worked closely with the City of Cockburn and their third-party accessibility provider, WebKeyIT, to ensure it was kept front of mind through the entire creative, development, and content population process. The website features one of the most robust and comprehensive search engines and even includes the ability to search the text within PDF and Word documents. 

Cervus Equipment is a world-leading equipment dealer, powered by iconic brands and passionate people. The aim of this project was to bring together seven separate sites to create greater brand awareness and a better overall user experience—and the results are really complex. There are multiple integrations, for example, with John Deere’s web services to synchronize information for more than 1000 products, as well as an integration with MachineFinder to synchronize all John Deere used equipment.  An integration with SilkRoad Talent Management system serves to search and present job opportunities across all divisions. Custom Macro rules allow content personalization by dealership.

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) is the UK’s independent regulator for the financial sector. FRC needed to ensure that this was accurately reflected online. Its previous website was overloaded with content, so the navigation needed to be stripped back, making it easier for the visitor to find the information they need. MMT Digital created a number of custom widgets that could be used to point visitors to relevant information. These included latest publications, quick links and signposts to navigate the user to where they need to be. FRC also wanted to be able to send out regular press releases, event details and information to its subscribers which is easily enabled with Kentico Email Marketing features.

Global law firm, Gowling WLG, needed a new careers microsite that would be the first step in positioning the firm as an employer of choice within the legal sector. MMT Digital managed to leverage the widget approach within Kentico to rapidly produce components/features that could be deployed to a staging environment. Kentico’s multi-lingual functionality was also important to Gowling WLG as longer-term plans involve a rollout of the website to all the firm’s major regions worldwide. A comparison of the site performance in September 2016 to September 2017, has shown several improvements: page views increased four-fold, sessions have increased by 137%, and users have increased by 105%.