Blue Water Media, a web design company in Washington DC, has been awarded 3rd place in the non-flash web design category of the American Design Awards’ 2009 winter, Semi-Annual Design Contest. The contest received over 1300 submission from various designers and agencies across the country.

The award was given to Blue Water Media for work performed on the Tackle Box Restaurant website.  The website offers a unique design that captures the informal ambiance of the restaurant and breaks from the conventional columned web page layouts. The website won an honorable mention in the Webby Awards contest earlier this year. Clearly, this website is a shining example of the talent and creativity at Blue Water Media.

We know budgets are tight, especially now. And many businesses’ first instinct is to cut back on their marketing budget. The down side, of course, is that if you cut back on marketing you’ll probably diminish your flow of new customers. This can create a downward spiral for your business. To help our loyal customers combat this struggle to maintain growth while cutting costs, Blue Water Media will be offering a significant discount on our website redesign services. This spring, any existing Blue Water Media customer will receive 25% off the total cost of a complete web site redesign and development project.

If you are an existing Blue Water Media client, you are eligible for this limited time offer.  You’ll need to act fast as this offer is only valid for existing Blue Water Media clients that sign a project agreement before May 31, 2009.

Blue Water Media, a web design agency in Washington DC, has been selected as an Official Honoree for the Restaurant category in The 13th Annual Webby Awards. The Official Honoree distinction is awarded to the top 15% of all work entered that exhibits remarkable achievement.  With nearly 10,000 entries received from all 50 states and over 60 countries, this is an outstanding accomplishment for the Blue Water Media team.

The recognition was awarded to Blue Water Media for work performed on the Tackle Box Restaurant website.  The website offers a unique design that captures the informal ambiance of the restaurant and breaks from the conventional columned web page layouts. Blue Water Media’s lead designer, Jen Koscielniak, had this to say about receiving the award, “It is really exciting and a great satisfaction to be honored in the most prestigious web awards competition.”

Blue Water Media, a web design agency in Washington DC, has been honored with a Gold Award for innovative design by the American Design Awards. The American Design Awards competition aims to reward those who have made graphic or web design their careers and uphold such ethical guidelines on a day to day basis. Other considerations for an award are creativity and talent, marketability and effectiveness, as well as practicality and general design abilities.

Blue Water Media submitted a restaurant website they had recently built for Vinifera Wine Bar & Bistro. The website offers a unique design that captures the personality of the restaurant and breaks from traditional 2 or 3 column web page layouts. Blue Water Media’s lead designer, Jen Koscielniak, had this to say about receiving the award, “We greatly appreciated receiving the award and being recognized for our creative efforts. It is particularly rewarding with this website because we didn’t use any flash animation on the site. Most of the web sites in the competition relied heavily on flash to achieve their design goals – we didn’t, and we still won the gold.”

There is an old saying that the Cobblers children have no shoes. I guess the same is true in business today. We know from experience because after 3 years with the same site we are proud to launch a new corporate Web presence. The new site is a culmination of over 4 months of work by our best people at Blue Water Media and we are definitely excited about the final result.

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

• 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
• Databases that house portfolio content
• The use of cutting edge CSS