This year at the Umbraco HQ we decided to bring back the Umbraco
awards for two reasons. First was to celebrate all the awesome and
high quality work that the community produces when building
great Umbraco websites, and secondly it was a great way for us to
collect new & exciting case studies for Umbraco's own
website. So expect to see these featured on the site very
soon! We short listed three finalists for each
category. The winners were announced at the end of CodeGarden
where each winner was presented with a very unique award: a custom
painted 18inch Umbraco branded Mega Munny. Below, Per Ploug from HQ
talks us through the category winners.
Best Technical Solution
Home.dk
Kraftvaerk - www.nytcms.dk
HollandToer.nl
WVD Media - www.wvdmedia.nl
FDIH.dk
CodeHouse - www.codehouse.dk
Winner: Home.dk
"Home.dk was selected because it scales really well,
(one of the biggest sites in dk) and because of their efforts to
make the editing environment extra friendly. Editors can put
together microsites by just picking content with various pickers,
so no more need for IT because non-tech people can just put
together the sites themselves."
Read how happy the Kraftvaerk team were to win the Umbraco Award
on their blog
http://www.nytcms.dk/nyheder/kraftvaerk-vinder-umbraco-award
Best Designed Site
LoveBeverlyHills.com
RTP Interactive - www.rtp.com
HenningLarsen.com
1508 - www.1508.dk
NLEngenharia.com
Massive Visuals Agency - www.itsmassive.com
Winner: HenningLarsen.com
"Henning Larsen was chosen for its functional
design. You can pick cases, articles etc and generate a PDF
from the site, which is cool for their users, but their sales
people actually also use it to make ultra-fast sales pitches, and
it's a beautiful site."
Best Integration
HenriLloyd.com
Amaze - www.amaze.com
TescoPLC.com
MerchantCantos - www.merchantcantos.com
ThisIsCentralStation.com
ScreenMedia - www.screenmedia.co.uk
Winner: ThisIsCentralStation.com
"This is Central Station was selected as best
integration because it's integrating a social network with Umbraco,
it's a nice integration, and its design and UX is actually
different from all the Facebook clones out there. So great use of
third party system + the flexibility of Umbraco in regards to
design."
Read how attached Jon has become to the Mega Munny/Umbraco Award
ScreenMedia won
http://www.screenmedia.co.uk/blog/2011/june/we-won,-we-won-the-umbraco-award-2011
It was really hard for the panel to choose the nominees &
winners from all the great entries we received. So if you entered
into the Umbraco Awards, we would like to say a BIG thank
you. The other reason we started up the Umbraco awards again
this year, was to get great case studies for us to use. We
have previously asked the community before but without much
success, now we have a ton of great case studies to showcase. So
expect to see them on the Umbraco.com site soon.
Thanks again for all the great submissions. In the final
CodeGarden11 follow up blog post I will blog all about the package
competition that we hold each year at the end of the
conference.
Until next time....
Warren & The Umbraco HQ