When it comes to deciding how to develop your web site you have a two different choices:

Option 1) Employ a web site design company to create your web site from the ground up, or create the web site yourself:

Employing a web site design company to create your web site from the ground up will result in you spending more money and ending up with less features than even the most basic KICS web site.

If you decide to create the web site yourself you may be able to come up with a nice design and implement a rudimentary web site. This will of course be cheaper on the outset than a professional web site. In the long run you may end up spending countless hours fixing problems and making simple updates.

From a professional design perspective it is quite easy to make a good looking web site - but that's just the tip of the iceburg. Any good web site developer will tell you that the difference between a poor and a great web site is how you manage content on an ongoing basis.

Option 2) Purchase a proven KICS web site from Kinesis:

We've thought long and hard about all of the problems cinema owners have with their current web sites and have created a product that answers every question you can think of.

Below are a small sample of the many questions that you have to answer and commit to when you build your web site from the ground up. A KICS web site will provide you with these answers.

To completely appreciate the amount of time and effort saved by having a KICS web site, please take a moment to think about how you would solve these questions if you were left to do all the work yourself:

Once you have a web site, how will you maintain it? Maintenance of your KICS web site takes less than 10 minutes a week, you can even skip a couple of weeks if you're well organised! Will you learn how to edit web site pages? All maintenance of your KICS web site is performed from within your web browser! No expert knowledge is required and we conduct training with you to ensure you understand the system. How much will this web site editing software cost? No extra software is required for the complete managment of your KICS web site. Will you employ someone to make these changes for you? The tools provided with your KICS web site mean you can do all regular maintenance yourself.

Screens from our Content Management System

Who will stay up late on a Wednesday night to ensure your information is current for Thursday morning? Your KICS web site intelligently uses live date information to ensure that the most current information is always presented to your customers. Who will gather movie information, format images and insert movie still images? All movie information, including poster and still images, are provided by Kinesis. All you need to do is tick the appropriate movie titles and they appear instantly on your web site! Who will type in your session times and who will remember to update these session times if they change mid-week? Your KICS web site uses exclusive software to automatically update your session times directly from your Point of Sale system! You will never have to type session times again! How will you manage your email subscribers? Your KICS web site manages your email subscribers without any interaction on your behalf and automatically sends an email to your customers each week. Who will host your web site? What guarantee do they provide that the site will be online? We host your web site for you as part of your web site package and provide a 99.5% uptime guarantee! How much time are you willing to spend on your web site each week? With KICS you can spend your time doing more important things - like running a profitable cinema! What happens if the person responsible for your web site leaves the company or falls ill? Your KICS web site can operate without any interaction for weeks at a time. If you are unable to update your site you can rely on your web site being up to date - all you need to do is ensure you have selected all the movies you need!

A web site may look good at first glance but unless it is accompanied by a rich set of tools to maintain it on a weekly basis you should avoid it at all costs! The best choice is a KICS web site for its ease of use and numerous time-saving features.