W3 Awards Highlight Real Estate Sites
Looking for design inspiration for your real estate site? The W3 Awards are judged by the International Academy of the Visual Arts and presented each year to the best sites, videos and marketing programs on the Net. From their site:
The W³ Awards honors creative excellence on the web, and recognizes the creative and marketing professionals behind award winning sites, videos and marketing programs. Simply put, the W³ is the first major web competition to be accessible to the biggest agencies, the smallest firms, and everyone in between. Small firms are as likely to win as Fortune 500 companies and international agencies.
This year the awards in the real estate category went to the following sites.
| Zillow.com www.zillow.com |
Verandah by Bonita Bay Group
www.verandah.com
Bankside 123
www.bankside123.co.uk
The Hamlet At Saint James
thehamletatstjames.com
The Racquet Club of Palm Springs
www.theracquetclub.com
Past Gold winners have included Foreclosure.com and Toll Brothers.
Also congratulations to BlueRoof.com for snagging a Silver award as well. More on BlueRoof Blog.
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Thelandsmiths | Oct 17, 2007 | Reply
TheLandSmiths.com is an online endeavor to streamline a much chaotic properties market in India. With our efficient service and support of our partners, we are constantly working on to regulate the India property market via this virtual platform.
Hawaii Life | Oct 17, 2007 | Reply
Hmm…lots of flash. Let’s remember this is a design award, not a usability award. The Hamlet at Saint James did have some interesting video use.
Greg Tracy | Oct 17, 2007 | Reply
I agree this is a design award- if it were a usability award I think BlueRoof would have received a gold award- most of award winners in real estate are home developments and the sites are very heavy on animation and flash, but have horrible UI’s.
The best sites are designed so a first-time user can navigate them easily and find what they want, plus enjoy the process.
1st Hawaii Home | Feb 7, 2008 | Reply
I know this is a design award but can’t we have a non flashed out site place? There’s gotta be a few sites out there that look good and aren’t 100% in Flash.