Award Winning Web Design

 

American Design Awards, Monthly Design Contest March 2010:

Stanton Park Media

This website combines an uncluttered interface and stunning graphics to attract users and streamline their search. The homepage opens with a picture of Stanton Park Media’s most valuable company asset–a video camera. Directly above the picture lies the website’s main toolbar with links to: home, about us, services, projects, and contact us. Each of these links leads to additional company information. For example, the “projects” link leads to snapshots of Stanton Park Media’s previous documentaries including Kidnap & Rescue, a documentary detailing U.S. Citizen Roy Hallum’s dramatic kidnapping story. The “services” link details Stanton Park Media’s comprehensive production services including: budgets, writing, production, and editing.

The Coulter Companies

“Our goal was to engage our current and prospective clients in the varying ways we partner with and achieve success with both nonprofits and corporations,” said Erin M. Fuller, CAE, group president, Coulter Strategy & Innovation.

The new website combines an engaging user interface with an intuitive site architecture resulting in an enjoyable and streamlined user experience. The homepage opens with a rotating image of a client event produced by Coulter Events. Incorporated in the image is a quote by Rudolf Flesch which encapsulates the company’s guiding principles, “Creativity may simply be the realization that there’s no particular virtue to doing things the way they’ve always been done.” Beneath the image are links to the company’s three main services: association management, event management and consulting, strategy & innovation.

 

American Design Awards, Monthly Design Contest October 2009:

Hook Restaurant

Blue Water Media designed Hook’s website to resemble its restaurant experience. The website’s dark blue background and cursive “Hook” script matches the actual restaurant’s trademark dark blue awning. The website’s background along with its left sidebar featuring an underwater picture provides a unique underwater feeling which resonates with its menu. The partnership between Blue Water Media and Hook has resulted in an experiential website which resonates with the customer.

AdJuggler

The new website combines aesthetically appealing graphics with informative links to streamline users to their desired webpage. The site features AdJuggler’s prominent toolbar with links to: solutions, services, technology, about us, contact us, and login. Each link drops down to a host of client options. For example, the solutions link leads to AdJuggler’s three solutions: Marketer Solution, Publisher Solution, and Network Solution. From there, each solution leads to an overview, an in-depth description, and a case study. The case studies analyze real life business scenarios and illustrate how AdJuggler’s expertise has benefited the client.

American Design Awards, Monthly Design Contest August 2009:

Jim Walker Office Furniture & Planning

Seeking to build a website that performs better at converting website visitors into customers, Chris Groves partnered with Blue Water Media to design and develop the new website. Blue Water Media set out to create a website with a clean and professional aesthetic that make good use of space and provides multiple opportunities and “calls-to-action” that encourage website visitors to convert.

Doctors Express

Doctorsexpress.com is an informative and user-friendly website that helps all Doctors Express clients find what they are looking for easily and efficiently. The clearly laid out home page enables perspective and returning patients, employers seeking information about the Doctors Express health care package, and job hunters searching for work in the medical field to quickly find what they need.

2009 WEBAWARD For Outstanding Achievement in Web Development: American Sugar Alliance

The American Sugar Alliance partnered with leading DC web design company Blue Water Media to update its web presence. Blue Water Media began with a new design that was both more user-friendly and more aesthetically pleasing. The design was then incorporated with the open-source content management system, Joomla!, an award-winning content management system (CMS) that will enable the American Sugar Alliance staff to easily manage every piece of content on their website without requiring advanced code knowledge.

2009 American Graphic Design Award Winner:

Logos:

Georgetown University, Georgetown Office of Compliance and Ethics

In an effort to revitalize its brand image, Georgetown Office of Compliance and Ethics partnered with Blue Water Media to develop a new logo. This partnership resulted in a cutting edge logo that reflected Georgetown’s belief of “Excellence through integrity.” These efforts were recognized when they were declared a winner at the 2009 American Graphic Design Awards.

Self Promotion:

Blue Water Media

In an effort to practice what we preach, the team worked to integrate a number of fresh Web design, programming technologies and implementation practices into the new Blue Water site. Some of the more notable features include:

1. A content management system that makes updating page text and image content a snap – even for those of us here without a ton of programming knowledge
2. Databases that house portfolio content
3. The use of advanced CSS
4. Section 508 compliance throughout the Web site so that the pages are accessible to visitors with disabilities
5. A stepped up marketing effort that will have a profound effect on the site's placement in major search engines as Google and Yahoo
6. WAP enabled pages so Wi-Fi users can view the site on handheld devices

Over the past eight years of being in the Web development business we have learned that scalability is paramount with sites of this nature. We built our new site utilizing the same open source technology (such as PHP and MySQL) that we recommend for our clients. The approach affords the flexibility to easily deploy new technology and site features as we grow and as technology evolves.

Internet Design:

American Sugar Alliance

The American Sugar Alliance partnered with leading DC web design company Blue Water Media to update its web presence. Blue Water Media began with a new design that was both more user-friendly and more aesthetically pleasing. The design was then incorporated with the open-source content management system, Joomla!, an award-winning content management system (CMS) that will enable the American Sugar Alliance staff to easily manage every piece of content on their website without requiring advanced code knowledge.

Brown Bag online

In an effort to make its website more experiential, The Brown Bag restaurant partnered with Blue Water Media for a complete redesign. The new website featured stylish graphics and functional applications allowing for a more enjoyable user experience. The result was an eye catching new website and an award for internet design from the 2009 American Graphic Design Awards.

Go Out 2 Eat

GoOut2eat.com is a cooperative Green Marketing Program that features direct mail using recycled paper and reusable coupons that are honored at any Featured Restaurant in addition to a paperless method of texting promotions to mobile phones.

myRep Lunch

myRep Lunch’s interactive tool benefits sales representatives by simplifying the scheduling of lunch meetings and allowing them to easily keep track of all expenses associated with those meetings. myRepLunch removes unnecessary catering duties from salespeople so that they can focus on achieving their business goals.

2009 American Web Design Award Winner: Go Out To Eat

GoOut2eat.com is a cooperative Green Marketing Program that features direct mail using recycled paper and reusable coupons that are honored at any Featured Restaurant in addition to a paperless method of texting promotions to mobile phones.

American Design Awards 2009 Winter Semi Annual: Tacklebox Restaurant

Tackle Box is Washington DC's first and only lobster shack. Tackle Box is the casual, sustainable, seafood restaurant option located in Georgetown, Washington DC.

Official Honoree 2009 Webby Awards: Tacklebox Restaurant

Tackle Box is Washington DC's first and only lobster shack. Tackle Box is the casual, sustainable, seafood restaurant option located in Georgetown, Washington DC.

American Design Awards, Monthly Design Contest January 2009: Vinifera

Reston's first and only wine bar and bistro is the sleek modern neighborhood gathering place where all of Northern Virginia comes to experience extraordinary wines, meals and people.

 

American Graphic Design Awards 2007: 1-800-Know-Now

1-800-KNOW-NOW is a free 411 service offering a mobile search service that allows you to find any information you need.

American Graphic Design Awards 2007: Life and Health Insurance Foundation for Education

To help college students better understand important risk management and insurance planning concepts, the nonprofit LIFE Foundation, in partnership with Somerset Community College, created Insurance Matters: Community College Edition.

American Graphic Design Awards 2007: University of North Carolina at Charlotte Housing Program (Green House)

Students are encouraged to make meaningful connections with other students, the faculty and staff of the university. These connections form a foundation upon which a successful college career can be built.