Our old website had served us well for the last few years, but it was quickly becoming apparent that it was no longer fit for purpose for our changing brand position and marketing needs. The old CMS was starting to show its age and wasn’t providing a stable, effective platform for managing our site’s content. We were also seeing a growing number of our visitors accessing the site on a tablet or smartphone, so we wanted to take this opportunity to make the site mobile-friendly using responsive design. Based on our specific requirements, Distinction recommended the Kentico CMS. We’ve been really impressed with what Kentico has to offer, and it’s made updating and growing our site easier than ever before.

Distinction is a brilliant full service digital agency, always putting consumer needs and engagement at the forefront of everything they deliver, whilst linking back to the project goals and objectives.

Distinction have worked professionally and with great commitment with our Project Team on a complex and challenging project to deliver two contemporary B2B websites for our W. F. Howes and Wavesound organisations. The websites have been welcomed by our customers delivering smart functionality to enable them to view and order our entire catalogue of available physical and digital products more proficiently than before. In addition, it has benefitted the organisations and our internal resources with a number of time saving efficiencies regarding web order processing and administration. After the first 2 weeks since the new website launch, the value of sales on both sites have exceeded the highest month in the previous 12 months.

The redevelopment of the Pan Macmillan site has enabled us to understand our audience and provide them with content that they are most interested in. This has meant we can engage with our readers much more. As well as this, we are now able to display new content to facilitate the discovery of new books and authors.

The redevelopment of the Union Square site has meant we can effectively present our brand and provide a clear value proposition to AEC and construction organisations, which has been very important for us strategically. Transitioning to Kentico EMS has also made our marketing efforts a lot easier and more effective. We can now monitor our campaigns much more effectively all from one platform instead of using multiple platforms. Furthermore, by making use of the marketing automation that Kentico EMS offers we’ve seen some great results, especially for our events, which see greater attendance and conversion rates.

The new website for Emily Gravett is our latest author site that truly succeeds in bringing her work to life. Thanks to our work with Distinction, it has been a huge success with parents and teachers to use with children to explore the work of this great author. Working with Distinction has meant that the life of content editors is as easy as possible as they find easy solutions to tasks that would have otherwise been difficult. This relates particularly to the Create a Bookplate feature, for which the drag and drop images can be easily managed by content editors through the media library. Furthermore, by using Kentico, we could implement certain functions without having to compromise on the design. For example, on the activity page, the various activities are arrayed as if on a table, rather than conforming to a standard structure. Features such as these have helped us to create a site that perfectly reflects the world of Emily Gravett for parents and children so for us the project has been a great success.

I think this is a brilliant project. As a parent of young children, it is great to see such a fantastic array of age-appropriate dementia resources all in one place. Dementia affects so many families that it’s high time there was a site like this dedicated to children and teens. I can also see this site being a real help for parents who would like to talk through the condition with their children and explain why a family member might be behaving in an unusual way. Dementia isn’t like a lot of other illnesses and children can have so many questions that aren’t always easy to answer. The stories, information and activities on Dementia Explained will really help with this.

Having already worked with Distinction for a number of years, I knew they were the company to take on the project of designing my new membership website. It's not been an easy project - we've spent many hours going over the detailed journey that users will go through when visiting the site. It's very important to me that my clients find M10 Life a pleasure to browse through, without any confusion. So far I've received nothing but compliments for the outstanding design, the structured user journey and the presentation of the content. This wouldn't have been possible without the detailed attention that Distinction have put into the design from start to finish.

Distinction were our choice because they understood the immediate requirements and issues we faced. Their proposals were practical and they ensured that we understood what they were doing and the rationale behind their recommendations. They were great at keeping us on track and working within the necessary time frames.