{"id":2646,"date":"2018-11-13T10:46:28","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T16:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.topspot.com\/blog\/?p=2646"},"modified":"2019-02-26T12:49:52","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T18:49:52","slug":"gold-w3-award-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.topspot.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/gold-w3-award-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"TopSpot Recognized in 2018 W\u00b3 Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are excited to announce that TopSpot was recently awarded one Gold and two Silver W\u00b3 Awards at the 13th Annual W\u00b3 Awards for their design and development<\/a> work. TopSpot was recognized as a Gold Award Winner in the Manufacturing Website Category and as a Silver Award Winner in the Construction & Health Website Categories.<\/p>\n

The 5,000+ entries were judged based on a standard of excellence as determined by the AIVA, according to the category entered. To uphold a high standard of excellence, a category may have multiple winners or may have no winners at all. Entries are scored on a 100-point scale by the judges. Less than 10% of all entries will be selected as Gold W\u00b3 Winners. Other outstanding entries are recognized as Silver Winners.<\/p>\n

While this is the first Gold W\u00b3 Award TopSpot has received, our team has been recognized by AIVA before. Last year, the TopSpot team was recognized with two silver W\u00b3 Awards<\/a> for their website design and development work in the Energy and Manufacturing Website Categories. In 2016, we were awarded our first W\u00b3 Award<\/a> for our work on the Air Filters, Inc. website.<\/p>\n

Introducing Our 2018 W\u00b3 Award Winning Websites:<\/h2>\n

Gold Award Winning Manufacturing Website, Albin Pump USA:<\/h4>\n

\"Albin<\/a>
\nSince launch, the Albin Pump USA team has noticed a significant difference in the amount of business their new website is bringing in.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe website is driving up business exponentially. Awareness of our products is growing every day. The website has also been a great tool for data and information for our distributor network and we did not have that in the past. TopSpot has been a key contributor to our booming success especially in the last 6 months of the website being up.\u201d<\/p>\n

– Chuck Douglas, Operations Manager at Albin Pump USA<\/p>\n

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Silver Award Winning Websites, Cason Graye Homes & Blades Wellness:<\/h4>\n

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2018 W\u00b3 Award Winner, Cason Graye Homes<\/p><\/div>

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2018 W\u00b3 Award Winner, Cason Graye Homes<\/p><\/div>

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About the W\u00b3 Awards \u2013 <\/strong><\/strong>The W\u00b3 Awards honors creative excellence on the web and recognizes the people behind award-winning sites, marketing programs, social content, mobile site\/apps and online video. In honoring the best of the Web, the W\u00b3 Awards 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.<\/p>\n

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Are you considering a new manufacturing website<\/a>? Here are some useful statistics stating what your peers are expecting regarding website usability that you should consider when developing your new site plan.<\/p>\n

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TopSpot partners with TechValidate, a survey platform and content creation tool, to gather content, market research and to gain insights into our customers\u2019 experiences with us through surveys that we create and send out to our customer base. 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