About the Awards
Since its inception in 2011, the Website of the Year Awards recognize websites powered by Progress Sitefinity for their excellence in user experience and their innovation in applying Sitefinity features and capabilities.
Who Can Submit a Nomination?
The awards contest is open to the entire Sitefinity community. You can self-nominate your own project built with Progress Sitefinity or authorize your implementation partner to make a nomination on your behalf. Finalists will be required to provide a Marketing Consent Form signed by the website owner.
Nominations will be accepted by February 15, 2022.
Selecting the Winners
By tradition, winners will be selected in two phases. First, an internal Progress jury will shortlist the three best websites per contest category as contest finalists. After narrowing the field, voting will be opened to the community at large – via email and social media. Public voting along with a panel of experts will determine the winners in the respective categories.
What’s in It for Winners?
- Engraved physical award & special digital badge
- Extra exposure on Progress.com
- Opportunity for a joint success story with Progress
- Ability to record a 1-2 minute video of your website and how you used Sitefinity – showcased on Progress.com and social Industry recognition and awareness via a Progress press release and social media promotion
- Amplify your success even further with additional joint marketing opportunities
Timeline
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Collecting Nominations
December 6 - February 15
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Shortlisting Finalists
February 16, 2022 - April 5
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Public voting
April 6, 2022 - April 20
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Counting the Ballots
April 21, 2022 - May 25
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Winners Announced
May 26, 2022
Criteria
Visual Design
Visual design refers to the appearance of the website. Good visual design is appealing to the human eye, appropriate, and successfully supports the messaging of the website.
Content
Content refers to the information presented on the site and takes different forms - text, music, sound, animation, video. Good content should be engaging, relevant and appropriate for the audience via personalization or optimization capabilities.
Layout and Navigation
Layout and navigation is how a website is structured, how content is organized and prioritized within the site's framework and how you move through the site. Sites with good layout and navigation are consistent and intuitive.
Innovation
Innovative use of technology on the site. Innovative functionality should push the envelope of what has been achieved in the past and enable the website to best serve the needs of visitors and achieve measurable results.
Complexity
Complexity refers to the level of technical difficulty employed when building the project, usually represented by website customizations and integrations with 3rd party systems - with or without the use of the available Sitefinity connectors.
Significance
Significance refers to the role of the website and its function, also its prominence in the Internet community, recognitions, site linkages.
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Entry requirements
The contest is open for all Sitefinity websites launched, or significantly enhanced, in 2021 and running on a recent Sitefinity version – 12.x to 14.0
Participants are encouraged to submit a signed Marketing Consent Form with their nomination. The Marketing Consent Form must be signed by the owner of the submitted project and its purpose is to grant Progress rights to display details about the nominated project on Progress.com in connection with the Website of the Year Awards contest. The Marketing Consent Form also arranges the participation of the nominated company in additional marketing activities such as joint success stories and press releases.
Electronic signatures are accepted. Nominees without Marketing Consent Forms will be approached by Progress separately should they be selected as finalists. Nominations will be accepted by February 15, 2022.
Previous Winners
Travel & Tourism
Best Western
Visit SiteRe-developed in MVC, the Best Western website enjoys a dramatically improved speed. The site is load-balanced and takes advantage of the Sitefinity personalization and multichannel management functionality. It integrates with international booking systems DC, as well as image repositories and CDNs.
Implemented by Spinbox
Energy & Utilities
Cleco
Visit SiteCleco’s web content had grown significantly over the years and its old CMS made it difficult to manage, make mobile friendly and ADA compliant. With a new Sitefinity-powered customer experience, Cleco’s ranking in a yearly electric utility residential customer satisfaction study improved, due to its more effective communications.
Implemented by Americaneagle.com
Sitefinity Cloud
Kubota USA
Visit SiteKubota USA needed to ensure it was delivering an always-on experience to customers throughout peak traffic periods. By moving to Sitefinity Cloud, Kubota USA can manage a multisite experience, develop custom widgets and enhance the Kubota Customer Journey efficiently and with zero downtime and 18% increase in sessions.
Implemented by TracTru, LLC
Financial Services
Legal & General America
Visit SiteWith aggressive growth goals over the next few years, Legal & General America was looking to increase traffic and deliver an innovative customer experience. Using Sitefinity and Sitefinity Insight it built a personalized experience across multiple channels. Organic sessions increased 17.7% and conversions increased 9.5%
Implemented by Americaneagle.com
Portal
RedSail Hub
Visit SiteRedSail Technologies is the parent company of two major pharmacy software brands: QS/1® and Integra®, and wanted to unite existing support websites, use single sign-on and improve the search experience. RedSail immediately saw a 30% resolution rate for those who read knowledge articles. The RedSail Hub uses the Portal Connector for Microsoft Dynamics from the Progress® Marketplace.
Implemented by Smooth Fusion
Education
TAFE SA
Visit SiteTAFE SA was looking to redesign their site by putting the student at the heart of all changes. Looking to drive application submissions for courses and improve the mobile experience, its reimagined UX has driven 1.5% more conversions.
Implemented by TAFE SA
Ecommerce
Tom Tailor
Visit SiteTo ensure business continuity when the pandemic impacted brick-and-mortar sales, Tom Tailor implemented Sitefinity and Ucommerce in just three months. After just ten days, Tom Tailor’s site was out earning the average brick-and-mortar store on a daily basis by 10%.
Implemented by Vareo
Associations & Non-profit
World Health Organization
Visit SiteFeatures integrations to various systems, including other CMS systems, Duraspace document repository system, Power BI, AWS CloudFront. Utilizes Sitefinity Insight. Improved audience engagement, broader user base and higher ranking in search results.
Implemented by Siili Solutions
