Flash Website Design Awards

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Working on an innovative and interactive flash website takes a lot of time and patience, so why not gain recognition by submitting your site for consideration in several flash website design awards?

And the winner is..

What is Flash?

Flash is a way to manipulate vector and raster graphics which supports audio and video streaming bi-directionally. This is accomplished by a programming language known as ActionScript.

Flash is Style and Creativity

With flash, a web designer can create websites that are full of features, completely interactive and more art than a stale and static site. Originally, flash was created as a way to easily add animation and video to websites, but over the years flash has become much more than that. Navigational menus that slide, pages that "turn" and the ability to add fully interactive features like video and voice.

Evolution of Flash

In the early days of web design, it was creative and cool to create intro screens, animated banners and spinning buttons. Then came navigational menus that could drop down and slide as well as flash with color. This was nothing very special since you could do the same things with java scripting. But now, a designer can use flash in conjunction with standard HTML, CSS, XHTML and DHTML to fully animate a website. The medium has grown to such heights that flash websites can sometimes cross the line from merely design to legitimate art.

Flash sites have become the epitome of style, and it forces designers to think outside the box; to manipulate the boundaries of what people perceive as merely just website design. It is for this reason that more and more designers are turning to [[Adding_Flash_to_Websites|flash] for their sites.

Flash Website Design Awards and Winning Sites

Web developers realize the potential of this medium and have created several flash website design awards for those who strive to push the limits of the medium. If you are a flash designer, then take note of the following awards and submit your own site for consideration! Or, if you are a fan of flash, enjoy viewing the winners!

Design Licks is a new award that asks the question, "How Creative can You Get?" Judging by their website, the answer is a simple one - very. They offer a site of the day award and are currently collecting additional entrants. Their current site of the day winner belongs to I Am Freelance.

Website Design Awards is dedicated to awarding and showing off the absolute very best in flash design. Their flash website design award is one of the most respected among developers. Some of the winners include:

The FWA, Favourite Website Awards, is an impressive flash website design on its own, but they give awards based on ingenuity and creativity in flash and other design aspects for some of the greatest looking websites to hit the World Wide Web. Their site lists winners dating back as far as 2000 and it has over 2,500 winners. Among the latest winners are:

  • EA Sports - Fifa 2009 Video Game
  • The Eco Zoo - Environmental]
  • Hotel 626 – A fully interactive horror game only available at night where you must use your webcam, cell phone and microphone in order to make it out “alive”.
  • Lexus - Hybrids in Russia
  • Coraline – Explore a Fully Handmade Animated World

My Design Award allows web designers to submit their site for review if they feel they deserve a bit of recognition. The site, if accepted and offered the award, can download and link the award image so that the world will know they’ve won something for their hard work and design skills. Some of the winners include:

  • Q-5 – Dutch Web Design Firm
  • Andre Rival – Designer and Art Director for Wal-Mart and others
  • Ester – Floral Design and Wedding Cakes
  • ... and over 6000 other site winners!

What Does a Website Award Mean?

Like any other thing that you do in life recognition can mean a great deal, either personally or professionally. Web designers strive hard to be noticed in what they do. In the cutthroat world of web design, an award can mean life or death to your firm. These awards show potential customers that others recognize your ability as a designer. As a retail site, the awards show that you care enough about your business to get the best design that money can buy, and that can translate to the customer-to-be assuming that you will care about their business as much as you care about your own.

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