Site of the Year 2012

Best Community/Social Media Site

Great British Chefs - http://www.greatbritishchefs.com

This website received the most votes of all the competing projects and also won the category Best Community/Social Media Website. Having won the majority of votes overall, it was also judged in terms of quality and website design, and Kentico is proud to declare the Great British Chefs website Kentico Site of the Year 2012. This site already offered great recipes, tips and “how to” videos from the finest British chefs, but the team wanted to further engage their audience by increasing interaction between foodies and the chefs through social media. The move to Kentico not only helped boost social interaction, with Facebook Likes increasing from 48,000 to 90,000 and Google+ followers from 0 to 190,000 in the last year, but also enabled the site to scale to accommodate increased traffic; over 600% in December, from 50,000 to over 350,000 visits.

Best Corporate Site

Entertainment One Group - http://www.entertainmentonegroup.com
Implemented by ecentricarts inc.

Having chosen Kentico for its simple content management tools (document types and widgets), as well as for its sophisticated API (for current and future site and library integration), this global entertainment company stores and manages its 24,000 film and television titles, 2,700 hours of television programming and 45,000 music tracks on Kentico's Media Library.
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Best Food and Beverage Site

Bacardi.Com - http://www.bacardi.com
Implemented by AgencyNet, ACAP Software Development & Bluemodus

Bacardi had an objective to upgrade its digital content delivery providing brand consistency with flexibility of digital offerings. Each of its local markets needed the ability to manage content structure and localize it to the specific regions, while still being able to leverage global content such as cocktails, products, and events. Kentico allowed full flexibility in an enterprise project of this scale while providing the most cost-effective solution to the digital challenges the Bacardi brand faced.
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Best E-Commerce Site

The Watch Expert - http://www.thewatchexpert.co.uk
Implemented by Pixel Builders Ltd

As one of the largest jewelry retailers in the UK, with over 200 high-street stores, Herbert Brown recognized an available market online for selling pre-owned prestige watches. The website manages the whole process; from buying watches from users, submitting them for sale and completing the valuation and sale agreement, through to the end payment/voucher point when selling them on to other users. Sales have strengthened in a short period of time both via online payments and the credit facility.
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Best Education Site

Houston Baptist University - http://www.hbu.edu
Implemented by Adaptdev

HBU, a leading institution for Christian higher education, is now using Kentico’s robust solution for managing its large content editor base, as well as security for items such as compliance, accreditation and payment. During its redesign, 3,000+ unique pages were migrated. The new site has allowed HBU to better communicate with potential students, existing students and alumni in an intuitive, highly designed site that resonates with younger audiences.
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Best Financial Services Site

Financial Reporting Council - http://www.frc.org.uk
Implemented by MMT Digital

The Financial Reporting Council is the UK’s independent regulator responsible for promoting high quality corporate governance and reporting to foster investment.The architecture of the site accommodates a vast amount of content, approximately 400 pages and 3,000 PDFs, all displayed in a way that replicates the new structure. The site is incredibly easy to search and meets the new branding and communications requirements of the company.
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Best Government and Municipal Site

Sacramento Public Library - http://www.saclibrary.org
Implemented by PMC

Sacramento Public Library provides ideas, information, and resources to help the community discover, learn and grow. It is the fourth largest library system in California and serves a population of over 1.3 million. The new clean design is consistent with branding and the navigation has been updated and simplified. Better integration with many third party products such as book catalogs, events, meeting rooms and feeds was achieved.
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Best Healthcare Site

Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital - http://www.maryfreebed.com
Implemented by BizStream

This Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital wanted to improve user experience and enhance interaction with its customer base. New forms were implemented that allow patients to make appointment requests and physicians to make referrals. Now, whenever a potential client fills out a form, it almost guarantees they become an actual client, so MFB has achieved increased revenue as a direct result of the change.
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Best Nonprofit Organization Site

The Kids Cancer Project - http://www.thekidscancerproject.org.au
Implemented by Create Studios

This Australian charity is focused on funding research programs dedicated to finding cures for childhood cancer. The website utilizes Kentico’s e-commerce functionality as a base and it was customized to meet the client’s requirements. It also incorporates the Kentico Blog Module, newsletter functionality and event calendar. A boost in online donations, the focused goal of the Kids’ Cancer Project, was achieved.
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Best Travel and Events Site

Run to the beat - http://www.runtothebeat.co.uk
Implemented by Net Solutions

The Run to the Beat Half Marathon is an event that took place on 28th October 2012, with additional marathons planned for future dates. It is intended to be an online platform where information is made publicly available so that photographers, DJs, organizers of charity events, etc. can all come to the same place to access the information. The site is designed in responsive HTML to make it easier for visitors to consume content on varied mobile devices.
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Best Intranet

Aegas UK
Implemented by Tellonline

Ageas UK is a leading provider of award-winning Personal and Commercial Lines insurance solutions and Life Protection insurance in the UK. The key objective was to develop the Ageas community; to bring the different businesses together through interactive functionality. The resulting intranet is a rich source of information for employees and an Ageas key communication channel across the UK, delivering regular and consistent messages.
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Best Mobile Site

Curve - The Industrial Design Magazine - http://curvelive.com
Implemented by Get Started

A new website was created to position the online Curve as one of the most respected online design magazines in the world, just as the press version currently is. It takes advantage of a number of Kentico features, with content management being core because this site is primarily blog- and article-centric. It was vital to retain the beauty of the design across different screen sizes and devices, and this has been achieved.
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Special categories

Best Graphic Design

True Africa - http://www.trueafrica.com
Implemented by Brand In Motion

True Africa, the safari company, chose Kentico CMS as their platform of choice because they needed its flexibility, out-of-the-box features and great support. The biggest challenge was remaining true to the graphic design specifications, but Kentico’s flexible API allowed them to do so. It also enabled them to create complex navigation using custom web parts, jQuery and AJAX, the latter of which also helped in the development of a powerful destination finder. The site also integrates Google Maps and Flickr.
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Best Kentico EMS Implementation

Freightliner – Team Run Smart - http://www.TeamRunSmart.com
Implemented by Burns Marketing

Team Run Smart is a robust community portal that delivers business-focused content to the US trucking industry. The solution included a mobile-optimized and traditional website that was coupled with personal accounts, forums, blogs, member deals, newsletter subscriptions, polls, and a full range of EMS campaign tracking tools to optimize the marketing strategy over time. Kentico also enabled the management of page content in Facebook, pulling content from other social platforms, and the integrated SMS sign-up for members, extending the mobile communications capabilities of the website.
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Best Integration

Sauder - http://www.sauder.com
Implemented by BizStream

Sauder is North America’s leading producer of ready-to-assemble furniture, and they wanted to feature their brands and products at a finer level while offering a better customer experience to visitors. They chose Kentico EMS as their platform because of its rich feature set and content personalization capabilities. The site makes good use of Product Comparison, Product Search, Product Quick Looks, and a Customized Shopping Cart, while integrating all Order and Customer data with SAP.
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Best Migration

Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems - http://www.EMHS.org
Implemented by Lighthouse Web Solutions

EMHS is a well-organized network of local healthcare providers for the people of Maine that migrated platform from Ektron to Kentico. This mobile- friendly site gained an updated look and feel and easier-to-manage content. The portal engine was leveraged to implement the use of widgets for easier page customization. EHMS recently won an eHealthcare Award for best mobile communication site.
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Largest Site

TUI.ru - http://www.tui.ru
Implemented by EPAM Systems/TUI Russia & CIS

TUI.ru, the Russian branch of the European tour leader, decided to make a complete redesign of their site, creating a more comfortable tool for searching and buying holidays. The site contains over 50,000 documents in a content tree and a few million rows of related data stored in the CMS. Performance issues were solved using two very brilliant abilities built in to Kentico CMS without the need for any further development – caching and scaling!
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Best Cloud Deployment

Mapex MyDentity - http://mydentity.mapexdrums.com
Implemented by Bit-Wizards

KHS Musical Instruments is one of the world’s top full-scale musical instrument manufacturers. Mapex MyDentity Custom Drum Configuration Tool is a custom Kentico application that allows consumers to build custom drum kits in an interactive, immersive experience. Leveraging Kentico CMS 6.0, Windows Azure, and jQuery, consumers can select drums, cymbals, pedals, custom finishes, and hardware to create a unique kit tailored just for them. The site won 2 Best of Show awards at the National Association of Music Merchants Show 2012 (NAMM).
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All Years

Site of the Year 2011
Site of the Year 2010
Site of the Year 2009

About Contest

The Kentico "Site of the Year" contest seeks out the best Kentico CMS web site implementations. It is a way to recognize talented individual and team efforts in web site development and generate internet marketing exposure for the award-winning web sites.

How to Participate?

In November, you can register your Kentico CMS website that has been launched this year. There are 10 industry categories and 4 special categories you can choose from
In December, Kentico selects 3 finalist for each category and let the visitors vote for the winners on-line.
In February, the winners of each category are announced.

There will also be one global winner - Kentico Site of the Year 2012 which will be the site that we choose based on the voting and on the special categories.

Benefits for Participants

The finalists and winners will be entitled to use the "Kentico Site of the Year 2012 Winner/Finalist" logo.
They will receive a plaque, a certificate, prizes and points for the Partner Program (available to partners).