For the second year now we've won multiple Horizon Interactive Awards for websites we've developed.

Among the winning sites are Popular Science (Gold in the Magazine & News category), RedBlueAmerica (Silver in the Blog category and Bronze in the Magazine & News category), and Spectrum Magazine (Bronze in the Public Service category).

Of course, we developed all of these sites using Drupal, which itself just won repeat honors in the CNET Webware 100 Awards for best publishing platform.

(Last year, we won a Horizon Interactive Gold Award for our development of the initial BlogHer website and a Bronze for the Stanford Center for Internet and Society.)

The Horizon Interactive Awards Fact Sheet (pdf) provides some background:

The 2007 competition saw nearly 1000 entries from all over the world including nearly all 50 States and many other countries including: Australia, Canada, Chech Republic, Columbia, Croatia, Germany, Egypt, Spain, France, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Hungary, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, Syria, Thailand, Turkey, and Taiwan.

The Horizon Interactive Awards is a prestigious international competition recognizing outstanding achievement
among interactive media producers from all over the world.

HOW YOUR ENTRIES WERE JUDGED

Entries were judged by an international, volunteer panel of industry professionals with diverse backgrounds and various roles within the interactive media industry. Entries were also evaluated by a panel of end-users making the 2007 results a product of one of the most comprehensive and well-rounded processes of any interactive media competition. The 2007 Judges hailed from the United States, South Africa, Canada, Great Britain, and Turkey.

From the official press release, we also learn:

"The 2008 competition was the most competitive to date. The work in this year’s competition is at such a high level that the judges really had their work cut out for them," said Mike Sauce, founder of the Horizon Interactive Awards. "All of the winning entries displayed a high level of sophistication, aesthetic creativity, technical excellence and clear purpose."

It's always a great honor to win recognition for one's work. The great pleasure was in developing those sites for those clients. It's their success that remains our primary goal. The awards are gravy. We thank the Horizon Interactive Awards for this recognition.

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