Friday night’s Australian Web Awards dinner, held at the Novotel Langley Hotel in Perth, showcased the best of the best in Australian web design and development, with companies from WA, NSW Queensland and Victoria taking out top honours.
The Australian Web Industry Association (AWIA) has been running a state-based awards program in Western Australia annually since 2005. The 2009 Awards are the first to be open to entrants nationally.
“The standard of sites from entrants in all states was very high”, said Helen Burgess, Judging Chairperson of the awards. “Although there were a high number of WA entrants as expected, we’re very pleased that so many companies from other states decided to enter their work as well. ”
Judges were sourced from noted web professionals specialising in a variety of areas from around the country. Each site was judged on a number of criteria relating not only to design, but usability, functionality, accessibility, and code quality.
According to Canberra-based judge Ruth Ellison, the task of evaluating the sites was not easy. “Judging was tough. I think it speaks volumes about the great talent we have in Australia – we’re competing on the world stage.”
Platinum Awards Sponsor, Fast Hit, Mr Chris Bauer comments, ‘We would like to congratulate the winners once again on lifting the standard of web work produced in this country." Fast.hit is a Perth based web hosting company and has been proudly associated with the Web Awards for the past three years.
More details about the Australian Web Awards program can be found online at http://www.webawards.com.au/
The 2009 Australian Web Awards winners are:
BLOG: Peter Dancewicz for weddinglightroom
VIRTUAL BUSINESS: Truelocal.com.au for True Local
RETAIL: Clever Starfish for Sophie Kyron Jewellery
SELL TO PEOPLE: Bam Creative for Yuki Jo
SELL TO CORPORATE: Loop 11 for Loop 11
GOVERNMENT: WA Museum & Equilibrium for Nick Cave – the exhibition
EDUCATION: Creative Nature for John Curtin College of the Arts
MEDIA: Wotnews for Wotnews
NOT FOR PROFIT: WA Museum & Equilibrium for Nick Cave – the exhibition
EDGE OF THE WEB: Loop 11 for Loop 11
ARTS & EVENTS: WA Museum & Equilibrium for Nick Cave – the exhibition
FASTHIT WEB HOSTING MOST OUTSTANDING:
WA Museum & Equilibrium for Nick Cave – the exhibition
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