This year's WebAward Competition, recognizing the most remarkable work in te field of Web site development, has already released its laureates. The hosted by The Web Marketing Association event took place for the eighth time to provide companies with a beneficial marketing tool for promoting their web development potential.
The WebAward Competition featured an enormous resource base of entries that had to be reduced to a certain number of winners. The body of judges had to deal with the hard task to outline the best matches for the 85 industry categories out of the multitude of 1,300 sites from 19 countries. The key criteria that were taken into thorough consideration were web design, copy writing, innovation, content, interactivity, navigation, and use of technology.
The star of the contest appeared to be Arnold Worldwide (www.arnoldworldwide.com) that was given the most prestigious award for Top Agency on the occasion of its consistently outstanding level of web development. The company swept the boards at the contest taking home the record number of 13 awards. The company serves as the headquarters of Arnold Worldwide Partners, a global agency network owned by Havas.
Another remarkable appearance was made by Arc Worldwide (www.arcww.com), a Chicago headquartered unit of Publicis Group. The company took The 2004 Best of Show WebAward for its magnificent work on "Behr Paint Interactive" at: www.behr.com/behrx/. The site's winning characteristics were its creativity, usefulness, immaculate architecture and high level of navigation that provide users with an innovative, interactive experience enabling them to visualize their design ideas, get color recommendations, and pick palettes from specific colors. The site also attracted the Best Interactive Services WebAwards.
The overall list of the winning sites is at the disposal of viewers at the WebAward Web site: www.webaward.org.
