International Web Page Awards - Press Release 042301

THE INTERNATIONAL WEB PAGE AWARDS

CONTACTS:
Edwin Fish (408) 266-1400
Brian Harris (415) 908-1661

International Web Page Awards
comes to San Jose this Thursday
April 26 Awards Dinner to announce
Best of Category and Best of Festival Award Winners

LOS GATOS, CA, April 23, 2001 - The Mayor of San Jose, Ron Gonzales, will declare this International Web Page Awards Week later today to honor this respected Web design competition. Now in its third year, the program acknowledges the best of the best in Web Site design, content and application. The international competition, judged by many of the World's best designers, was named one of the top 5 Internet awards in the world by Wired Magazine.

On Thursday, April 26, 6:30 pm at a special black-tie dinner celebration in the Fairmont Hotel, San Jose, one-hundred-and-fifty-two "Creative Excellence Award" winners, from around the world, compete for best Web Site in thirty-seven categories. All the winners compete for the ultimate accolade "Best of Festival" that acknowledges the best Web page created in the world in 2000.

Designers from 22 different countries competed in the initial stages of the competition and thirty-nine of the award-winning pages were created outside the United States. This year, the annual celebration takes place in San Jose for the first time.

The International Web Page Awards program was established in 1998. It is the first genuine international forum for Web designers and graphic artists to acknowledge their peers for work done in the previous year. In three short years the program has garnered immense respect and acclaim in the industry for its authenticity and the quality of the winning entries.

The big news this year is the emergence of German designers with eleven wins, although California and New York remain the geographic areas with the largest number of winners. The biggest winners are Elephant Seven from Hamburg with six Creative Excellence Awards, Siegelgale with five, and four each by Modem Media, with three created in their Honk Kong office, Head New Media in London, 3W Studios in Tallahassee, Florida, and Scholz & Volkmer in Wiesbaden.

RedZep, the next-generation video production company, will help Internet viewers share the excitement of the Awards festivities. RedZep crews will capture video interviews with award-winners, add customized graphical elements, and encode the finished video clips for delivery from www.WebPageAwards.com. Bay Area celebrity, high tech journalist and RedZep co-founder and chairman, Stan Bunger, returns as co-Master of Ceremonies (with Rick Spence) on Thursday evening.

The IWPA web site has been completely redesigned this year by Matt Wolf Web Media & Design (www.mattwolf.com) - a consecutive-year IWPA winner for "Best of Community 1999" and "Best of Personal 1998". To view the winning sites, visit www.WebPageAwards.com. To review the text of the Mayor's proclamation or to interview Edwin Fish, Chairman of the Program, or for more information call Brian Harris at 415-908-1661.

6:30PM - Cocktails
7:30PM - Dinner
8:30PM - Awards Presentation

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