Web Marketing Association Announces 2006 WebAward Winner for Best Fashion Industry Web Sites

West Simsbury, CT, October 10, 2006 --(PR.com)-- www.webaward.org - The Web Marketing Association is pleased to announce the Best of the Fashion Industry Website Winner for the 10th annual international WebAward Competition, the Internet’s premier Web site award competition.

“The Fashion industry websites serve a unique function on the Internet in because they set trends for the world making it important that their sites are appealing and easy to use,” said William Rice, President of the Web Marketing Association. “Those websites that fall behind the industry standards can benefit from and implement the feedback from WebAward judges.”

Fashion websites were judged on the following seven criteria during the WebAward competition:

Design
Innovation
Content
Technology
Interactivity
Copy writing
Ease of use

The overarching goal of the WebAward Competition is to provide a forum to recognize the people and organizations responsible for developing the most effective fashion websites on the Net today.

This year’s best web site WebAward winners in the fashion industry are:
Best Fashion Website
2006 Bikkembergs Football - http://www.bikkembergsfootball.com/
2005 Tommy Kids Web Site

A complete list of past and present WebAward winners can be found at:  http://fashion.webaward.org

The WebAward competition awards web sites in 96 industries as well as determining overall web site awards including Best of Show.

The 2006 Best of Show WebAward was presented to New York-based Big Spaceship (www.bigspaceship.com), for its outstanding work on the "TBS: Department of Humor Analysis" web site at www.tbshumorstudy.com.  Big Spaceship joined forces with Mother Interactive to turn their very silly questionnaire into an addictive, fully interactive web site.

R/GA (www.rga.com) was named Top Agency at the 2006 WebAward Competition, taking home 19 WebAwards.

The 2006 WebAward Competition sponsors include:
BURST! Media (www.burstmedia.com)
Misukanis & Odden (www.misukanisodden.com)
SimpleFeed (www.simplefeed.com)
Register.com (www.register.com)
NewsUSA (www.newsusa.com)
AdTools Inc(www.adtoolsinc.com)
Small Army (www.smallarmy.net)
TopRank Online Marketing (www.toprankresults.com)
Creative Chocolate Printing Company (www.creativechocolateprinting.com)
Perseus Development Corp (www.perseus.com)
PRWeb (www.prweb.com)

Media Sponsors include:
Website Services Magazine (www.websiteservices.com)
AdRants (www.adrants.com)
MarketingVox (www.marketingvox.com)
MediaPost (www.wediapost.com)
eComXpo (www.ecomxpo.com)
Ad:Tech (www.ad-tech.com)
Macworld (www.macworldexpo.com)

The Web Marketing Association thanks all of its sponsors for helping to make this annual competition possible.

About the Web Marketing Association
The Web Marketing Association is working to create a high standard of excellence for Web site development and marketing on the Internet. Staffed by volunteers, it is made up of Internet marketing, advertising, PR and design professionals who share an interest in improving the quality of Website development and marketing on the Internet.

Since 1997, the Web Marketing Association’s annual WebAward Competition has been helping interactive professionals promote themselves, their companies, and their best work to the outside world. Now in its ninth year, the WebAward Competition has become the premier award event for Web developers and marketers worldwide.

Learn more at www.webward.org

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