Kentico Top 10 Websites for June 2018

The California Earthquake Authority (CEA) is a not-for-profit, privately funded, publicly managed organization that provides residential earthquake insurance and encourages Californians to reduce their risk of earthquake loss. A major component of the overall project was providing a more user-centric design and content strategy that connected with varying audiences. In addition, BlueKey redesigned the user workflows for their agent application tool and premium calculator. Kentico has provided the tools necessary for the marketing team to run their targeted marketing campaigns with ease and manage all content on the website.

First Five Years is a source of information for parents of children up to five years old that contains articles from child health professionals. Utilization of the bespoke ‘Ask a question’ tool allows visitors to contact health professionals directly and receive answers on the website, as well as allowing follow up questions raised by other parents. Engagement with Kentico features such as Polls, Newsletters, and Forms helped to increase the number of visitors even more. The main challenges of the project were to design and customize the numerous widgets, to fine-tune the site search, and to integrate Accelerated Mobile Pages as it was predicted that a high percentage of users would be using mobile devices.

This project is a relaunch of a clear, rebranded, informative, and intuitive website for Crimestoppers that streamlines and increases anonymous crime reporting, encourages donations and showcases their services, campaigns, and events. Kentico e-commerce functionalities integrated with payment gateways Sage Pay and PayPal meant that Crimestoppers could take donations directly onsite without having to use a third-party solution. The website is also integrated with internal Crimestoppers systems for recording anonymous form data and managing the most-wanted list. From May 2018 to June 2018, the site saw a 40% increase in average session duration and a 20% increase in the number of pages per session.

Weston Food Service is North America’s premier bakery provider. The website allows Weston to showcase all of their products in a vibrant and appealing way. All content needed to be multi-cultural (French-Canadian, American) because Weston Food Service is a Canadian company and relatively new to the US market. Visitors can easily search for bakery products and use the filtering system to find exactly what they’re looking for. They can also find food inspiration by taking a look at the recipes and articles. Sellers are able to access the Sales Portal where they can download sell sheets, product info guides, and more. The website is integrated with transactional email delivery application, Postmark.

Coaching Zone is personalized group training with a coach to guide you, help you stay motivated and get the most out of each workout.  Coaching Zone uses the latest technology and techniques in a 45-minute workout, followed by 15 minutes of coaching to review participant’s progress and provide education on a range of lifestyle factors that can accelerate results. The website enables prospective members to find and sign up to a local studio, allow existing members to book a class, and for potential franchisees to register their interest. The website utilizes Kentico EMS Marketing Automation features with identified enquirers, enabled with a plan to increase the sophistication in this area over time.  

Community Food Centers Canada (CFCC) builds health, belonging, and social justice in low-income communities across Canada through the power of food. CFCC needed a new website that would help contribute to their vision of a Canada where food is treated as a basic right and central to health, and where everyone has the means, knowledge, and voice necessary to access good food with dignity. The technology and business goals of the new CFCC website included prominently displaying clear and consistent CTAs throughout that engage website visitors and prompt them to donate, volunteer, register for an event, etc. To expand functionalities even further, the website is integrated with MailChimp and Care2.

Envision, Inc. and LCI are nonprofit organizations with a lot of heart that are dedicated to improving the lives of people who are blind or visually impaired by providing inspiration and opportunity to them. They are in the unique position to address inadequacies in workforce development, remove barriers to entry and drive employment innovation. Everything on their new site is specifically intended for BVI users, as this is the largest demographic who uses the site, so Ntara built the sitemap, page structure, UX, and content to focus on their needs. The overall flexibility of the project is strengthened by using only four web parts that are leveraged across the whole site.

The technical challenges were to cater for the client’s more than two million products. There was also a need to create a bulk importing system from supplier Excel spreadsheets that created new or updated existing products on the site. Spreadsheets could contain around 100,000+ records of data, which needed to be assimilated into the correct data structures. It was also necessary to, enable two routes for allowing a customer to order (online payment and offline invoice ordering), ensure product export to Excel spreadsheet to allow importing into client’s internal systems, and allow mass deletion of products for a supplier to adapt quickly to changes.