Freewebs Wins Outstanding Website Award in Web Marketing Association's Web Awards
Freewebs Honored With Best Portal Website Award
SILVER SPRING, Md., Oct. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Freewebs, the company that offers the web's most open personal publishing platform and helps people unleash their creativity online with free website building tools (http://www.freewebs.com), today announced it received the award for "Best Portal Site" by the Web Marketing Association (http://www.webaward.org). The Web Marketing Association's annual WebAwards are highly coveted by web designers and developers and distinguish the best-of-the-best in the industry.
"We are thrilled to be recognized by the Web Marketing Association for this prestigious award," said Haroon Mokhtarzada, CEO of Freewebs. "Great design and usability are integral parts of our effort to remain the absolute best personal publishing platform on the web."
Freewebs also recently announced it has launched a beta version of a social networking and Web publishing site, Pagii(http://www.pagii.com), which combines the features of social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook with the innovative approach of Web and desktop publishing. Pagii's browser- based technology allows users to use the project flexibly, from anywhere, without having to download software.
Now in its 11th year, the annual WebAward competition received nominations from 2,400 sites from 40 countries in 96 industry categories. Entries were judged on design, copy writing, innovation, content, interactivity, navigation, and use of technology. A complete list of the winning sites can be found at the WebAward Website: http://www.WebAward.org.
About Freewebs.com
Freewebs is the company that offers the web's most open personal publishing platform, dedicated to ensuring everyone in the world can create a quality multimedia website. For anyone with an Internet connection and something to share, Freewebs provides the toolkit to express their voice on the Web through its versatile publishing platform. To date, Freewebs members have created more than 17 million comprehensive websites including blogs, photos, videos, music, e-commerce and more. Founded in 2001, Freewebs is privately held and based in Silver Spring, MD.