Last year we set out to make the Umbraco Awards more festive as the awards really is a celebration of the great solutions - all the nominated and, of course, the winners.
This year we took the things that worked from Codegarden 17, and tried to improve on them, and add a little “pizzazz” on top.
So we made the show longer, gave the video presentations even more love than last year and upped the number of winning categories to 10.
And in the last minutes leading up to the award show, we added a drumroll between “And the winner is…” and the announcement of the winner. A drumroll that, to be honest, sounded quite a lot different when I first listened to it on my tiny laptop speakers then when it was blasted out through the massive CG18 speakers. Oh well, that’s show business, and it sure did add suspense and a kind of “pizzazz” to the entire ceremony 😉
But enough about that. The really important part is the winners:
GORM Agency A/S with the site Tuborg.dk
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The site is implemented on a baseline built by Umbrella for Carlsberg and is a beautiful, module-based solution that helps give the editor full control of the content while the design remain solid.
Perplex Internetmarketing with the Mercedes-Benz Private lease platform
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This is a highly customized Umbraco solution that is impressively integrated with external systems to deliver a great customer experience. In all ways a beautiful and complete project.
Perplex Internetmarketing with the site: dirkzwager.nl
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Perplex have created a great editor experience and really shows off the flexibility of Umbraco to suit editor's requirements. This project take the editors work damn serious and put the written word in focus. Great use of competitive elements for encouraging editors to improve the quality of their work.
Novicell with the site: lighthouseaarhus.dk
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Beautiful and clean design with a user experience that feels more like a interactive presentation than an actual website.
It is not often that we see such beautiful sites displaying well across all screen sizes.
Compent with Shamballa Jewels
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An inspiring way of using Umbraco. it is impressive to see how the intuitive 3D jewelry designer connects to a huge complicated system, while still being simple to use and looking great.
Outfield Digital with Fluidity
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A super useful package to make developer's life easier. A very popular package within the umbraco community already. Great package simplifying and reducing the amount of work needed to integrate an external data source with Umbraco.
Council of the European Union, with the site: consilium.europa.eu
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Very complex solution to a very complex scenario of having a multitude of countries and languages supported in one site, while still allowing editors to stay sane while attempting to manage all of this content. This was a really great case study to show how much can be done with Umbraco, extending with community packages and also some custom changes to optimise the editor experience. Impressive project, that makes complexity work.
DIS/PLAY with the site: nextkbh.dk
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A great example of design and user experience melting together into a great looking, and user friendly site. The editing experience is really well thought through and that helps create better content and a site that works really well for the visitor.
Site Point GmbH with the site: hierbinichgast.de
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Great example of how you can customize Umbraco to restaurant owners. Impressive customizations of backoffice with development of specific modules allowing for easy management of various features needed by their clients.
This Project contains so many different and great features, that brings lot's of value to the users.
Novicell with Benns.dk
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Impressive and comprehensive use of cutting edge technologies deeply integrated with Umbraco to achieve unique performance results.
Thank you to everyone who submitted their solutions to the awards! The solutions were very impressive and the amount of work put into the videos, images and texts describing the solution has been magnificent.
We hope to see even more great submissions for next years award show. And remember, quoting the award winning Pete Duncanson,: "Once an Umbraco Award winner, always an Umbraco Award winner!".
PS: Pictures of the handsome winners can be found on our Umbraco Flickr account
Yesterday, 16 new Umbraco MVPs were awarded live on stage at Codegarden. MVPs who make a massive difference to the Umbraco community. Each got an actual award, a certificate and a loud applause by the 600 witnessing Umbracians. Here's the full list of the new MVPs as well as all the MVP renewals: