[Press Release] The release of Kentico CMS 5.0 for ASP.NET brings with it significantly enhanced enterprise-level performance and scalability for large websites.

Today brings with it an exciting new development for me personally, and the last piece of the puzzle for Kentico Developer magazine. The magazine is now in print and subscriptions are finally available!

It’s funny, but looking back over the last three months, the evolution of Kentico Developer reads like a poorly managed website rollout - an inability to meet high ex- pectations due to technical limitations.

In any other situation, trees and bugs would not be a marriage made in heaven. But with the Kentico team planting a tree for every bug found in Kentico Version 4.1, it’s a win-win situation for partners, developers and the environment. And it was all hands on deck. “The participation on the event was voluntary for the employees and of course they didn’t get paid for it, still more than three quarters of the Kentico team took part in it! In addition, some of the employees’ girlfriends came along with us to support our efforts. Since we had more trees then it was needed to plant, we decided to dedicate these extra trees to these girlfriends who helped us,” says Petr Passinger, PR Manager for Kentico.

The winner of the first ever Kentico Site of the Year Award is an amazing mix of functionality, usability, beautiful design and bang for your buck, and the fact that the Chicago Zoological Society site topped out both Best Nonprofit Organization Site and Best Graphic Design says a lot for the work of Designkitchen, the group behind it.

It’s very rare that an interactive agency is able to produce work within the typically tight budgets and timeframes that come with Nonprofit Organizations, but even rarer still that the work produced is stunning enough to win design awards.

Congratulations to Designkitchen on a great site, an awesome execution, and on winning the inaugral Kentico Site of the Year.