Bella Web Design, Inc. an Atlanta-based web design and online marketing company, is a recipient of the 2011 Webby Awards, a prestigious international competition that honors excellence on the Internet. The company is an Official Honoree in the Webby Awards Events category which recognizes distinguished efforts in using the web to promote events across a wide range of industries and initiatives.
Bella Web Design won the accolade for its work on WordPress site Universal Whiskey Experience, a new whisky tasting event in Las Vegas designed to attract consumers of premium whiskey beverages. Bella Web Design shared the Events category honors with organizations that include NBC for its Olympics coverage; Major League Baseball for its World Series presence on the web; MTV Networks for its 2010 Country Music Association Festival; and the Economist Conferences UK, which was produced by the Economist financial and news magazine.
The Webby Awards organization received more than 10,000 entries from 60 countries and all 50 U.S. states for the 2011 competition. Only a fraction of those were recognized as Official Honorees. “The Official Honoree distinction is awarded only to the top 10 percent of all work entered,” says David-Michel Davies, Executive Director of The Webby Awards and The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, and Chairman and Co-Founder of Internet Week. “Winning the award exhibits remarkable achievement.”
“We are incredibly excited by our selection as one of the 2011 Webby Awards Official Honorees,” says Desiree Scales, Chief Executive Officer of Bella Web Design. “This is the first time we’ve ever entered any of our work into an award competition. We’re ecstatic that we won such a prestigious award for Web-based innovation with our first competition entry.”
Scales credits the efforts of her company’s highly skilled web design and development staff in creating the Universal Whiskey Experience site. The client’s goal was to create a site that would attract attendees by effectively communicating the elegance and luxury associated with premium whisky. The site won praise from the client and was a major element in helping launch an enormously successful event.
“Nothing is more important than helping our clients build their business through effective web design and online marketing,” says Scales. “That is the true measure of a job well done. The Webby Awards honor and our client’s success prove that our design process and attention to detail can deliver big results with each and every project.”
About the Webby Awards
Established in 1996 during the web’s infancy, the Webby Awards are presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, which includes an Executive 750-member body of leading web experts, business figures, luminaries, visionaries and creative celebrities, and Associate Members who are former Webby Award Winners and Nominees and other Internet professionals. The Academy is an intellectually diverse organization that includes members such as musicians Beck and David Bowie; Internet inventor Vint Cerf; political columnist Arianna Huffington; Real Networks CEO Rob Glaser; “The Simpsons” creator Matt Groening; Virgin Atlantic Chairman and Founder Richard Branson; and Harvey Weinstein, Co-Founder of The Weinstein Company. Members also include writers and editors from publications such as The New York Times, Wired, Details, Fast Company, Elle, The Los Angeles Times, Vibe, and WallPaper. The Webby Awards presents two honors in every category—The Webby Award and The People’s Voice Award—in each of its four entry types: Websites, Interactive Advertising, Online Film & Video, and Mobile & Apps. Members of The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences select the nominees for both awards in each category, as well as the winners of the Webby Awards. The online community determines the winners of The People’s Voice by voting for the nominated work that they believe is the best in each category.