Long gone are the days of static, stale websites where little content changes. Today's users expect rich, current, relevant, meaningful and dynamic experiences. How can such experiences can be created without the need for a full-time development staff? With a correctly set-up content management system (CMS), content owners can update a website with ease.  

Kentico is one such system that supports creating flexible and customizable websites. But the benefits are not only on the side of management and maintenance: development is straightforward.

For the developer, Kentico has several out-of-the-box web parts that many sites utilize. These include:

• Support for a common navigation and/or master pages in page templates
• An open and extensible system that can leverage user-created controls throughout the site

From a management perspective, Kentico offers scheduled publications, archiving and access restrictions to specified content. In addition, data capture — i.e. email sign-up forms and user forums — is easily made available via emails or reports.  

Springbox recently utilized Kentico to build websites for The Joint and Central Market. Using Kentico for The Joint website development allowed us to create a single form that maintains the different events taking place at the venue. This form not only supports capturing the specific details for resident or ongoing events but those that happen all summer long, as well as regular one-time events.  Additional user input forms were created for maintaining promotional callouts throughout the site, as well as VIP offers for different events.

For the Central Market website, it was important to restrict access to different parts of the site, and individual stores were tasked with maintaining their own content. In addition, forms were created for recipe input and cooking school classes.

Once both these websites hatched, it was time to push them out of the nest and let them take flight. After the sites were set up, the files were handed off to the client, where they have been successfully managed maintained. The content stays fresh and new, and the overhead remains low.