Kentico Top 10 Websites for October 2017

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.

For nearly 40 years, Anagram Balloons has been creating an extensive and innovative range of products and services and operates a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. The goals of the Anagram website redesign were to bring a fresh new look to the corporate website by incorporating new branding, making it responsive, integrating it with the customer service system for distributors, giving the ability to capture visitor email addresses for future communication, and providing easier access to product imagery and catalogues with a toolset for easy maintenance. Products are pulled directly from the DAM and Kentico caching is used to reduce the performance cost of doing so.

Vivid Property identified a service gap in the property management industry in Perth where information is cluttered, outdated, a real need to differentiate themselves from competitors and stand out and get noticed.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.

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%.

MJMA is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary architecture firm focused on projects that advance personal and civic wellness and include a diverse array of programming and scales. The main challenge of this project was to manage the photo-heavy portfolio content. It was also necessary to update the website to be mobile responsive. The content tree was heavily utilized for the organization of projects, project imagery, and project category pages. Every project has to reside under multiple project category pages, thus links to existing projects were used in the content tree to avoid duplicating projects and their sub documents. Custom tables are used to store additional project information.

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare is the leading health statistics agency in Australia. It produces high-quality reports and information products on key health and welfare issues in Australia, used to improve the delivery of health and welfare for Australians. Their website content is edited, staged, and reviewed in distinct groups of nodes. This includes reports that contain a large sub-tree of nodes of varying types, associated images and documents, and top-level information that applies to all nodes beneath it. Zeroseven has created an on-demand, multi-document content promotion tool which leverages the Staging Module API, Kentico REST service, Media API and internal document type objects.

For more than 70 years, NCM Associates is focused on improving the operational and financial performance of their clients. Their expertise covers both automotive retail and OEM support. The former website had an outdated design, was divided between disparate systems (e.g., blog on a different site), and was creating barriers to e-commerce capabilities. A switch to Kentico helped NCM Associates lay the foundation to enrich its website with E-commerce functionality (coming soon), leverage Advanced Workflow, and engage Content Staging. Changes made lead to a 32% increase in pages per session and average mobile session duration increased by 51%.

The end result is a delighted client who now has peace of mind that the site is failsafe, reliable, and secure and offers an appealing purchasing experience with real-time pricing via the gold and silver index. Atkinsons required the site to be integrated with Brightpearl, their stock management system. The team can keep their products and details up to date using one login, improving efficiencies for the business. The impact of the new site was significant on all levels. In just six months after launch (November 2015), the site achieved an impressive 126% increase in revenue, a 98% increase in average order value, and a 14% increase in transactions.