{"id":67,"date":"2016-10-17T15:42:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T21:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.topspotims.com\/blog\/?p=67"},"modified":"2018-07-11T15:16:59","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T21:16:59","slug":"webawards-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.topspot.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/webawards-2\/","title":{"rendered":"TopSpot Recognized in WebAwards Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to announce our achievements in the 20th Annual WebAward Competition. The WebAward competition format allows websites to compete head to head with other sites within their industry to win the Best of Industry Award.\u00a0 Entries also compete against a standard of excellence to win Outstanding Website and Standard of Excellence WebAwards.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cEach year, the online marketing community raises the bar in terms of website development,\u201d said William Rice, President of the Web Marketing Association. \u201cWebsite design is constantly evolving to better meet the needs of the online audiences.\u00a0 This year, the WebAwards competition received remarkable entries from around the world that show impressive creativity an functionality.\u00a0\u00a0 We congratulate all of our winners for developing websites that deliver for their audiences.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Entries are judged on the following seven criteria on a scale of 0-10 points:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Design<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Innovation<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Content<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Use of Technology<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Interactivity<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Copywriting<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Ease of Use<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong style=\"font-size: 20px;\">This year, TopSpot received the following WebAwards:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Best of Industry WebAward\" src=\"\/assets\/images\/blog\/2016\/October\/WEBAWARD16_Best.jpg\" alt=\"Best of Industry\" width=\"194\" height=\"194\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 16px; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ame.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Advanced Machine &amp; Engineering Co.<\/a> was recognized in the B2B &amp; Manufacturing Categories along with winning Best Catalog Website.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Outstanding Website WebAward\" src=\"\/assets\/images\/blog\/2016\/October\/WEBAWARD16_Outstanding.jpg\" alt=\"Outstanding Website Award\" width=\"194\" height=\"194\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 16px; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elite-mma.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elite MMA<\/a> was recognized by the WebAwards for the <strong>second year in a row<\/strong>. This year, they won Outstanding Website Award in the Sports Industry, Small Business &amp; Regional Business Categories.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Standard of Excellence WebAward\" src=\"\/assets\/images\/blog\/2016\/October\/WEBAWARD16_Standard.jpg\" alt=\"Standard of Excellence\" width=\"194\" height=\"194\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 16px; text-align: center;\">This year&#8217;s Standard of Excellence Winners include:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 16px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">2016 Catalog Standard of Excellence for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.destaco.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Destaco<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 16px; text-align: center;\">2016 Electronics Standard of Excellence for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houwire.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Houston Wire &amp; Cable<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 16px; text-align: center;\">2016 Manufacturing Standard of Excellence for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thermalcare.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thermal Care<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>This is the fourth year in a row that TopSpot Internet Marketing has been recognized with WebAwards from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webmarketingassociation.org\/wma\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Web Marketing Association.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 20px;\">At TopSpot, we view each website we create as an extension of our clients\u2019 business. We take pride in building sites that are not only recognized by our peers as being above the industry standard but as websites that also deliver results for our clients and help to improve their overall web presence. We look forward to continuing this tradition of achievement and strive to improve and innovate moving forward.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 0.9em; background-color: #f2f2f2; padding: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"><strong><strong>About the WebAwards<\/strong> &#8211; <\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">The Web Marketing Association is the producer of the WebAward Competition. Now in its 20th year, the WebAward program is the longest running annual website award competition dedicated to naming the best Web sites in 96 industries while setting the standard of excellence for all website development<strong>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We are pleased to announce our achievements in the 2016 WebAward Competition for website development.","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,17,1221,7],"tags":[],"coauthors":[18],"acf":[],"cp_meta_data":{"_edit_last":["15","15"],"_edit_lock":["1531343680:15"],"_yoast_wpseo_content_score":["30","30"],"_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":["5","5"],"_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":["We are pleased to announce our achievements in the 2016 WebAward Competition for website development.","We are pleased to announce our achievements in the 2016 WebAward Competition for website development."],"_wp_old_slug":["webawards","webawards"]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.6 (Yoast SEO v23.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>TopSpot Recognized in WebAwards Competition - TopSpot Internet Marketing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We are pleased to announce our achievements in the 2016 WebAward Competition for website development.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.topspot.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/webawards-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"TopSpot Recognized in WebAwards Competition\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We are pleased to announce our achievements in the 2016 WebAward Competition for website development.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.topspot.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/webawards-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TopSpot Internet Marketing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/topspotims\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-10-17T21:42:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2018-07-11T21:16:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.topspot.com\/assets\/images\/blog\/2016\/October\/WEBAWARD16_Best.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Beth Shockley\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@topspotims\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@topspotims\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Beth Shockley\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.topspot.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/webawards-2\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.topspot.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/webawards-2\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Beth Shockley\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.topspot.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/8c145d751272c920a0bd1a0dc15fce92\"},\"headline\":\"TopSpot Recognized in WebAwards Competition\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-10-17T21:42:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-07-11T21:16:59+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.topspot.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/webawards-2\/\"},\"wordCount\":383,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.topspot.com\/blog\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Announcement\",\"B2B &amp; 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