2002 stlwebdev.org Web Site Awards

The 2002 stlwebdev.org Web Site Awards ceremony was held on February 18, 2003 in the Mission Control Room at the St. Louis Science Center.

Winners were chosen in eight categories. The first, second, and third place winners for each category are listed below.

Best Corporate Site
Best Non-Profit Site
Best Web Content
Best Web-Based Application
Most Visually-Appealing Site
Most Usable Site
Best St. Louis-Oriented Site
Best Personal Site

Prizes given out to winners are listed at the bottom of the page.

Best Corporate Site

First Place
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (Designed by the Public Affairs and Research Departments of the STL Federal Reserve Bank)

Second Place
ThoughtProcess.net (Designed by James Fawcett and Matt Kaatman)

Third Place
Fiduciary Asset Management, LLC (Designed by Paradigm New Media Group)

Best Non-Profit Site

First Place
Visitation Academy (Designed by Paradigm New Media Group)

Second Place
Maybeck Foundation (Designed by Samuel Ramaji)

Third Place
Barnes-Jewish Hospital (Designed by SCORE Interactive)

Best Web Content

First Place
Sauce Magazine (Designed by Catherine Neville and Allyson Mace)

Second Place
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (Designed by the Public Affairs and Research Departments of the STL Federal Reserve Bank)

Third Place
Randy Burkett Lighting Design (Designed by Lisa Sudduth/RealGalaxy.com)

Best Web-Based Application

First Place
PGL Transport & Recovery Services, Inc. (Designed by Matthew J. Price)

Second Place
AR-PERSCOM (Designed by Northrop Grumman Information Technology-St. Louis)

Third Place
MedCareerConsult (Designed by Integrity Custom Web)

Most Visually-Appealing Site

First Place
GLOW-Girls Leading Our World (Designed by SCORE Interactive)

Second Place
VIVIDSITES (Designed by VIVIDSITES)

Third Place
Obata Design, Inc. (Designed by Randy Scott)

Most Usable Site

First Place
Barnes-Jewish Hospital (Designed by SCORE Interactive)

Second Place
Roton Products, Inc. (Designed by Third Eye Media)

Third Place
Tile Contractors Assn. of America (Designed by ThoughtProcess.net)

Best St. Louis-Oriented Site

First Place
Downtown St. Louis Partnership (Designed by Third Eye Media)

Second Place
Sauce Magazine (Designed by Catherine Neville and Allyson Mace)

Third Place
FOCUS St. Louis-What's Right With the Region! (Designed by Paradigm New Media Group)

Best Personal Site

First Place
Must Rock! (Designed by Josh Boelter)

Second Place
kaatman.com (Designed by Matt Kaatman)

Third Place
Lost Humans (Designed by Ashley Warren)

Prizes

Our generous sponsors donated the following prizes:

Adobe — Adobe Web Collection, which includes a copy of Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe GoLive, and Adobe Illustrator
Corporate Express in coordination with Avery-Dennison — two Afterburner CD Labeling Kits, two DesignPro Deluxe Software, two Avery Wizard Software, and two Ink Jet Clean Edge Business Cards
Corporate Express in coordination with Fellowes — a Fellowes-Crystals Gel Wrist Rest (keyboard length), a Fellowes-Crystals Gel Wrist Rest & Mouse Pad, and a Fellowes-Neato CD/DVD Labeling System (120 labels)
Daugherty Systems — long and short sleeve polo shirts
Envision — four hockey tickets plus parking
Gateway to the Web — two six-month free coupons for GTW.NET Database Web Site Hosting
HTTP Solutions — Basic Business Hosting Package for one year to all First Place winners
ITT Technical Institute-Arnold — two Information Technology classes from their Web Development associate degree program (50 contact hours each)
IWA-HWG — $100 cash prize to every First Place winner who is a paid member of IWA; $50 cash prize to every Second Place winner who is a paid member of IWA; and a $50 credit toward any online class offered by eClasses.org for all First, Second and Third Place winners
Litton PRC (Macromedia) — a two-day class offered at the Macromedia Training Facility
Microsoft — Windows XP home version, Windows XP Professional, Motocross Madness 2, Street Trips 2002, MapPoint, Flight Simulator 2002, Intellimouse Optical, and Internet Keyboard Pro
Modis — four St. Louis Cardinals baseball tickets
Object Computing Inc. — long sleeve denim shirt, ball caps
O'Reilly — a calendar

Special thanks to:

Tom Wheeler for performing Webmaster of Ceremonies duties, creating the ceremony on-screen graphics, and representing the Web Developers Group on KSDK-TV on 2/19/03 [23.5 MB MPG movie]
Paul Riat for ceremony photography
mhe.net for designing the Awards logo
IWA for the refreshments, trophies, and Science Center room rental