April's Site of the Month winners may feature a wide variety of industries, yet many achieved a common goal: moving away from legacy stacks. Every project this month used Xperience by Kentico to consolidate and create a foundation for growth that’s ready for what's next. See how April’s winners created winning experiences built for better customer journeys, improved conversions, and editor autonomy.
April 2026 Site of the Month
Key Takeaways
- April 2026's Site of the Month winners span banking, insurance, commerce, life sciences, associations, and IT services; with seven projects in total.
- Replatforming was the defining theme: teams left behind platforms like WordPress and earlier Kentico versions to land on Xperience by Kentico.
- Credit unions and financial services again led the pack with four winners, each prioritizing conversion, online account opening, and digital-branch experiences.
- Multi-brand and multi-subsidiary consolidation showed up across industries.
- Content Hub, structured content modeling, and Page Builder reduced editor effort.
- Many winners show how Xperience by Kentico handles digital commerce.
Frontwave Credit Union, serving members across Southern California with a strong focus on military and family banking, partnered again with ZAG Interactive to rebuild their digital experience on Xperience by Kentico. Upgrading from Kentico 13, the team used this project as an opportunity to reimagine the user experience end-to-end, from a refreshed mobile experience and navigation to a richer set of conversion pathways.
Project highlights
- Upgrade from Kentico 13 to Xperience by Kentico
- Custom-built account opening
- ZAG Interactive’s custom Locations, Rates, and Events tools
- TimeTrade integration for branch appointments
- Google Maps integration for branch locations
What makes this site a winner
Frontwave's homepage immediately helps visitors find what they need with an auto-rotating carousel widget that shows their products and services within the first scroll. Frontwave is complete with a blog featuring savings and home-buying advice, FAQs optimized for SEO and GEO, a strong calculator suite, all come together to create a full-service digital branch.
Sector: Banking, Investment & Insurance
Implemented by: ZAG Interactive
Florida Association of Insurance Agents (FAIA).
The Florida Association of Insurance Agents is the trade association serving Florida's independent insurance agents, supporting them with advocacy, education, and member services. BizStream redesigned FAIA's site on Xperience by Kentico, also moving the organization from a complex on-premise solution to the cloud in the process. They rebuilt the site around how members actually use it. It’s now easier to find events, navigate their unified resource library, and access stronger AMS integration through Nimble AMS.
Project highlights
- Upgrade from Kentico 13 (on-premise) to Xperience by Kentico (cloud)
- Page Builder, Content Hub, and Taxonomies for structured content
- Azure Search powering unified search and live filtering
- Nimble AMS integration with SSO for class and event registration
- Education advocacy hub with insurance license courses
What makes this site a winner
FAIA's site leads with membership, putting the CTA for joining where prospects can find it and using an intuitive path to guide visitors to relevant content. The live-filtering resource library, packed events calendar, and education advocacy section all reflect a site built specifically for what members need.
Sector: Associations
Implemented by: BizStream
TruMark Financial Credit Union.
TruMark Financial Credit Union serves individuals and businesses across Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey. As part of a comprehensive rebrand strategy, TruMark partnered with Americaneagle.com to migrate from WordPress to Xperience by Kentico, building a redesigned site that aligns with the new brand identity and gives the marketing team a flexible platform to work with. The rebrand and migration gave them the foundation needed for ongoing member engagement and marketing innovation.
Project highlights
- Migration from WordPress to Xperience by Kentico
- Native Kentico Search and Forms for account applications
- Glia chatbot integration
- CreatioCRM and form submissions
- OpenStreetMap for location pages with a 3D-style branch view
- Tether online banking embed
- Google Analytics and Search Console configuration
What makes this site a winner
TruMark's site delivers everything members expect from a modern credit union, including: direct account opening, location maps, a chatbot for fast questions, online banking integration, and FAQs optimized for findability. The rebrand-aligned design ties all of their new features together into a cohesive member experience.
Sector: Banking, Investment & Insurance
Implemented by: Americaneagle.com
Integra LifeSciences.
Integra LifeSciences is a global medical technology leader specializing in neurosurgery and surgical solutions. Facing a December 2025 sunset of their previous CMS, Integra worked with BizStream to migrate their primary corporate website to Xperience by Kentico, delivered as SaaS; a platform refresh under tight constraints that prioritized long-term stability and global content distribution. The result strengthens visibility for stakeholders and their target audience alike.
Project highlights
- Brand-new build on Xperience by Kentico SaaS
- Workday integration for careers and job postings
- Microsoft Entra SSO for admin access
- BizStream's Web Accelerator for Kentico (WAK)
- Reimbursement information request flow built into the site
What makes this site a winner
Integra LifeScience’s site stands with content that is complete with a company history timeline, patient success videos, a comprehensive product catalog, and a live chatbot to help users with any inquiries they might have about their products. This site also impresses for its multilingual capabilities, meaning their rich quantity of content is accessible for global audiences seeking medical solutions.
Sector: Healthcare
Implemented by: BizStream
Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA).
The Retail Industry Leaders Association is the U.S. trade association for leading retailers, representing brands like Abercrombie and 7-Eleven. BlueModus migrated and redesigned RILA.org from Kentico 12 to Xperience by Kentico, consolidating a fragmented multi-brand ecosystem into a unified platform with cleaner content governance, simpler authoring, and streamlined member access controls. The redesign also tackled a long-standing pain point: a previous content model that relied on more than 50 widgets, helping reduce complexity for editors.
Project highlights
- Upgrade from Kentico 12 to Xperience by Kentico
- Multi-brand consolidation across six sub-brands
- Salesforce integration for member management and event registration
- Kentico Universal Migration Toolkit used for content migration
- Gated content scenarios with role-based access
What makes this site a winner
RILA's redesigned site is a great example of successful platform consolidation. With six sub-brands, gated member content, Fonteva-powered events, and a polished user experience all running off a single, well-governed Kentico backbone. The icon-led navigation, dynamic widget hero, and member-portal architecture all contribute to a site that has variety without being cluttered.
Sector: Associations
Implemented by: BlueModus
SHI International.
SHI International is one of the world's largest IT solutions providers, serving enterprise customers with hardware, software, cybersecurity, and managed services. Americaneagle.com upgraded SHI's website from a legacy Kentico site to Xperience by Kentico, for .NET Core. They migrated templates, widgets, media, and a long list of custom integrations while keeping a unified user experience across SHI's multiple applications. The upgrade improves performance, security, and deployment freedom for SHI's global content team.
Project highlights
- Upgrade to Xperience by Kentico
- Multisite routing and custom site selector
- ADFS SSO and AIRequestTelemetry
- Full B2B commerce flow for hardware and software procurement
- Multilingual content
What makes this site a winner
A combination of comprehensive B2B content with a commerce experience that ranges from PCs to smartwatches gives SHI International's customers convenience and context. Customers can explore their extensive product catalog with filtration that is quick and effective; with easy checkout and the option to save a quote with member accounts. This winner shows that a site with an extensive content and product catalog can still be user-friendly.
Sector: Services, IT
Implemented by: Americaneagle.com
Stanford Federal Credit Union.
Stanford Federal Credit Union, serving the Stanford University community and Bay Area members, partnered with ZAG Interactive to rebuild their digital home on Xperience by Kentico. The previous site was limited by technical abilities and performance, making it unable to be used as a true digital branch. The redesign focused on conversion-friendly UX, seamless integration with vendor sites, easier maintenance, and a foundation for sophisticated personalization that can be expanded as needed down the road.
Project highlights
- Redesign and replatform on Xperience by Kentico
- Personalization-ready architecture
- ZAG Interactive's FAQ tool, rates tool, solution finder, and product finder
- Integrations with chat, cookie consent, online banking, and calculators
- iframe integrations for appointment scheduling, third-party rates, and Formstack
What makes this site a winner
Stanford FCU's site puts the digital branch front and center: chat, virtual branch, blog content on mortgages and home buying, calculators across loan and savings products, and clean integrations into the third-party services that members rely on. The architecture is set up for personalization, with an editor experience that makes updates seamless. With a chatbot and channels like a mobile app, Stanford FCU’s winning site stays true to their mission of putting their customers first.
Sector: Banking, Investment & Insurance
Implemented by: ZAG Interactive
Frequently Asked Questions
April's winners cover the full range: redesigns and migrations off legacy CMSs, brand-new commerce builds replacing custom ecommerce stacks, multi-brand association ecosystems, healthcare corporate sites delivered as SaaS, and B2B IT procurement experiences with multilingual support.
The eight winners are Frontwave Credit Union, the Florida Association of Insurance Agents (FAIA), TruMark Financial Credit Union, Integra LifeSciences, the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA), SHI International, and Stanford Federal Credit Union.
Replatforming was the dominant theme, teams moved off WordPress, custom ecommerce, on-prem CMSs, and older Kentico versions onto Xperience by Kentico. Credit unions and financial services again led on volume, while consolidation of multi-brand or multi-subsidiary ecosystems showed up across associations, retail telecom, and IT services. Across the board, structured content modeling and Content Hub adoption reduced editor friction and made marketing teams more autonomous
Several April winners specifically called out the reduction in editor effort as a key outcome. Page Builder, Content Hub, and Taxonomies gave marketing teams the tools to create, manage, and publish content without relying on developers, reducing widget complexity in some cases from over 50 down to a streamlined, governed set of reusable content types.
April's winners showed the platform handling complex ecosystem consolidation with ease. RILA unified six sub-brands under a single, well-governed instance, while SHI International used multisite routing and a custom site selector to manage multiple applications within one unified experience. Structured content modeling and Content Hub made it possible to share and govern content across brands without sacrificing flexibility.
