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FWA Announces First Quarter Website Awards for 2003
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The first quarter at Favourite Website Awards (FWA)
[http://www.favouritewebsiteawards.com] saw more than 3900 websites
nominated with 92 listed as winners.
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FWA Announces First Quarter Website Awards for 2003  
The FWA winners’ “Directory” has grown and now hosts over 460 of the world’s best Flash and cutting edge sites, through 17 different categories for ease of browsing.
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The first three Site of the Month winners for 2003, that will enter the overall contest for Site of The Year 2003 in January 2004 are:

January: tokyoplastic [http://www.tokyoplastic.com/] = A collection of ongoing personal design collaborations in abstract graphic art (Instant impact site with awesome animations. One of those rare fresh sites that make you realize that the web _is_ still moving forward).

February: Bionic Systems [http://www.bionic-systems.com/] = Enter the DiSLOC Research Department of this German New Media design studio (You may be familiar with this site as it was released last year but went offline for a while because of bandwidth troubles. It’s back with a new host and, without doubt, one of the most innovative and progressive sites of the year so far, with great motion, 3D and superb sound FX and portfolio to match).

March: IDENTITY [http://www.sonypictures.com/identity/] = A savage rainstorm and ten travellers have to seek refuge at a strange motel (This is one of the best movie websites FWA has seen to date. A totally engrossing experience with an amazing atmosphere. The level of interaction is first class with no two visits being the same).

Brief news for the first quarter:

10 new interviews were published with some of the world’s leading Flash, web design and motion graphics experts, taking the total to over 75 interviews to date.

The winners’ “Directory” has grown and now hosts over 460 of the world’s best Flash and cutting edge sites, through 17 different categories for ease of browsing.

FWA moved to the top of the “Most Popular” site listings for awards at Yahoo!
[http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/World_Wide_Web/Searchi
ng_the_Web/Indices_to_Web_Documents/Best_of_the_Web/Awards/]

FWA is based in the UK and is currently a non-profit project, sponsored by
McGraw-Hill.co.uk [http://www.mcgraw-hill.co.uk] and ComputerBooks.uk.com
[http://www.computerbooks.uk.com] and is owned by Robert Ford.

What the industry say about FWA:

Macromedia.com: "Links to the best websites containing Macromedia Flash and
Shockwave content."

Yahoo.com: "Favourite Website Awards - when it comes to Flash style, they
have the newest in new."
 
 

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03/18/03 Custom Embroidery Via The Web Offered By H&H
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