Kentico Top 10 Websites for December 2017

Independent Vet Care (IVC) is a group of veterinary practices. They needed an easy-to-use website template that each practice within the group would be able to customize, based on its own offering. The template needed to be able to support multiple languages as future plans involve a roll out to several European countries. The site needed to be easy for each practice to manage so that websites could be created without the need for help from developers. With a potential reach of 600 sites, the aim of this project is to transform the entire web presence for the group.

Ridgeway created a unique, first-class education hub for The International Institute of Diamond Grading & Research (IIDGR), part of the De Beers Group of Companies. The IIDGR website is built on Kentico EMS and utilizes many out-of-the-box features including security and authentication mechanisms, custom modules, contact and account management, and activity tracking. Users can buy online and offline courses. This has involved using Kentico’s flexible e-commerce checkout process utilizing features such as product management, discounts, taxation, and payment integration with third-party provider, Braintree.

CREW Network was founded in 1989 to bring together women involved in the many aspects of commercial real estate, to exchange information, develop business contacts and help each other succeed professionally. The business goal of this website was to empower CREW Network staff and chapters to easily and efficiently manage their web presence and pave the way for a scalable, long-term, digital roadmap. After the website redesign, it is easy to create new sites as well as easily link and share content between the main site and chapter sites. The website is also integrated with various third-party tools, such as Abila netFORUM, Higher Logic, and Blue Hornet.

Madison Electric is an innovative product development company. Their new website needed to promote Smart Box electric device boxes and tell its story to electricians, retailers, and homeowners. Madison Electric needed a platform to house hundreds of SKUs and SKU images so that their big-box retailers could easily pull proper images into their own websites and systems. Through the Kentico Media Library, it was easy to organize the many images, similar to PIM platforms. Other Kentico features utilized were Forms, Custom Modules, Web Parts, and Widgets. There’s also an e-commerce functionality on the website roadmap which was one of the reasons why they have chosen Kentico.

Melbourne Airport is the primary airport serving the city of Melbourne, and the second busiest airport in Australia. The site provides a complete resource for information relating to the airport including flight information, shopping, and parking. Prior to its recent rebuild in Kentico, the site was on a custom proprietary CMS. Pages were slow to load and content administration was clunky. Since the relaunch, average page load speeds have improved by more than 56% and the use of modular page design has vastly increased content management efficiency. The site rebuild was a joint project between Get Started (back-end development) and Hardhat Digital (strategy, design, and front end).

The website was migrated to Microsoft Azure due to the need of the hmv team to have a flexible and functional e-commerce platform that would stock their great range of products and offer customers the same experience they receive in-store.  By the end of 2017, the number of products is set to be around 100,000 and the growth rate is expected to be in the region of half a million over the next year.  This means the site is optimized to load the huge number of products quickly. In order to provide the best possible customer experience, simplicity is key in showcasing the store's products. Ridgeway achieved this through a clean, uncluttered interface with hero imagery of striking album artwork and photography.