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No not a matter of being burned. It is a matter of the internet. Just take a look at any of the website designers and you will see that out of the thousands of websites that are on the internet today (just search website designer in any engine) they all list the same names. Now if you click on the, advertise with us link, at that bottom of any of these website pages, you to can have your name up for small fee.

Now please do not get me wrong. I do understand some designers have won real awards (that is great) but just becuase they have some award! I stick firm on the fact that it does not force me to use them as a designer. I have been real happy with my designer for my site, she does a great job with design, flash, etc. however I don't see her bost any award.

Hi lovemykids,

I'm not a web designer. I'm a copywriter. And my awards are in advertising contests that include interactive as a category. These contests tend to reward great thinking that produces results.

What I was trying to say is why should there be an award for web hosting? I am not saying it is not important, I don't understand what there is to web hosting to award a prize. I am going to have to check that out. I don't do searches for web hosting companies, I have a list of trusted web hosting companies that I work with. The same is true for the art directors and web designers that I work with, although I recently worked with one who let me down greatly. But I don't blame that on awards or no awards, it was purely an issue of maturity or the lack there of. The client picked this art director and then asked for my help

I don't want to sound arrogant but I only concern myself with the awards I listed and a couple of others. There are sites like www.thefwa.com and www.qbn.com that I would love to have my work listed on, but I have to produce better work.

Sorry for the confusion. I agree there is more than awards, but I am saying that I consider it all together.

I get several calls a month from other forum contributors offering to redo my website. Granted whats up now is ONLY information and the code is old, most are looking for the application, which is not viewable unless a user has the 8080 protocol sign in url and a user id/password. If they had that url what they would see is entirely different from what the dot com shows.

We have not updated the dot com info since the app is still in development and we opted to just leave the information up and concentrate on the app and then put all the new up on the web once we launch officially after beta testing. It costs money and time to incrementally update. We opted not to.

What bothers me is the fact that most web designers do not design...they arrange rectangles and squares and try to make the color pallet compatible. Then they put in this totally annoying music and expect the users visual experience to be wonderful. They do not bother to create a brand for their customers. All of my niche users love our website design/environment. It's edgy and it has 'design'. You don't know my designer, but you know his work: Chilis, Steak & Ale, Dr. Pepper, Tournament of Roses....the list goes on and on.

Between Jim (our designer) and IWrite, we have one crazy web design/ad/marketing department.