APEX Web Site Winners

We've selected just of few of the APEX Award-winning Web sites to share with you. Each is worth a visit for content and a sense of how the site is structured and planned. (Also see the judges' comments about -- and links to -- Grand Award winners from the current and previous years.)

Note: Sites change, so the sites you view will not be exactly as they were when they won APEX awards. The following sites are open to the public. However, many other APEX award-winning sites, such as internal intranet sites, are private sites and cannot be accessed.

Dave & Emily Whitlock Fly Fishing School
Shannon Brooks, Creative Director, Brooks-Jeffrey Marketing, Inc., Mountain Home, Arkansas
"Beautiful and incredibly appealing Web site...perfect design for a fishing site...clean, simple, elegant and fast."

Envirokids: kid tested, mother (earth) approved
Amy Turner, Community Relations Assistant and Sarah Amber Langin, EnviroChallenger Educator, City of Tacoma, Tacoma, WA.
"What a great, fun site for kids (and grown ups, too!). Fast, jazzy, lots of interesting activities, how-to tips and projects. It's a new world out there, and this site's on the cutting edge."

Maveron Web Site
Hornall Anderson Design Works, Inc.
"Great corporate capability Web site. Superb portfolio display. Very clever use of logos. Love the unfolding technique. Clean, simple, elegant."

taroyamasaki.com
Bonnie Zielinski, Vice President, Director of Design, Identicomm LLC, Rochester, MI.
"Sparkling photography in spectacular black and white, in a clean, elegant minimalist Web site that makes extraordinary use of 'black space' and gray tonalities. A one-of-a-kind."

Center for Problem-Oriented Policing Web Site
Professional Development Program, Rockefeller College, University of Albany, Albany, NY.
"Superbly researched and written reports clearly convey useful, actionable information in this easily-navigable, well-designed site."

Copresco Digital On-Demand Printing
Steve Johnson, President, Copresco, Carol Stream, Illinois.
"A practical, working site -- content over glitz. This commercial printer's site does a superb job of, (a) keeping existing customers informed of new services and ways to use existing ones, and, (b) attracting new customers. Packed with useful information and links for publishing professionals. A very practical, 'cut to the chase' Web site."

American Foundation for the Blind Web Site
American Foundation for the Blind, New York, New York.
"Marvelous site. Visually superb. Excellent organization. Text and background colors customizable and optimized for the visually impaired. Accessibility keyboard shortcuts. They know their audience. Massive, useful content, from job postings to message boards -- all cleanly organized. Great Meta tags. A very well planned site."

The NASA "Why?" Files
Jeff Seaton, Learning Technologies Project Leader, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia.
"Lively action graphics...hypertext-style links...small, easily readable copy chunks are perfect for the Web. Well-organized, designed and edited site. Superb example of a site designed for a specific audience. Takes full advantage of Flash -- everything is visual...every click an exploration and adventure."

Fairfield University
Martha Milcarek, Assistant Vice President for Public Relations, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT.
"This university Web site fairly shouts 'quality' but in a quiet way. An elegant, buttoned down design uses superb graphic design and efficient, fast navigation to deliver page after page of exceptionally well-organized, crisply written copy. It is an enormous site and one that is enormously useful."

Society for Technical Communication Web Site
Russell S. Bombardieri, Webmaster, Society for Technical Communication, Arlington, Virginia.
"Fast, elegant and superbly organized Web site. Very well implemented drop-down menus. Very clean home page. Effective news section. Extensive information on an enormous range of topics, but very easy to locate and navigate. Prime example of how to set up a large site."

NOVEC Outage Map
Becky Whitelock, Director of Communications, Laura Cotterman, Contractor and Tony Weaver, Operations Director, Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative, Manassas, VA.
"The best ideas are often the simplest -- a Web-based, real time outage map, which shows you, at a glance, where any current outages are. Click on the flashing map dots and get more detailed information. Outage reporting fact sheets and very useful tips on how to prepare for, and cope with, power outages, round out this Web site section. Nicely done."

Theology Today Web Site
Published by Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey, and produced by Brian Neas, Designer and Nancy Cataleno, Art Director, Cataleno & Co., Inc., Moorestown, New Jersey.
"Fast-opening, top-quality site with crystal-clear navigation and attractive design. Great archive organization. An excellent publication Web site. A paradigm of simplicity in execution and ease of use."

The LA Times in Education Web Site
Frankie Kowalski, A.D. 2, Inc., Santa Monica, California
"Clean, elegant site design. Apt illustrations -- chalkboards, apples, pencils. Excellent navigation. Attractive typography."

Plumbing & Mechanical Web Site
Joseph Ursitti, Managing Editor, Business News Publishing Co., Des Plaines, Illinois
"A practical site. Superb navigation. Fast opening. Nothing is hard to figure out. An excellent example of a superior publishing site."

Center for Science in the Public Interest Web Site
Colleen Dermody, Communications Director, Washington, D.C.
"A lively site, with a friendly, informal feel, clever headlines ("Caffeine: The Inside Scoop") and tons of useful information."

bowl.com
Eric Rehl, Director of New Media, United States Bowling Congress, Greendale, WI.
"A complex site -- actually multiple sites in one -- but superbly organized, with quick, clear navigation and a massive array of information and educational material. A heavy duty site, meticulously executed."

Catholic Charities USA Web Site
Jo-Ann Leitch, Public Relations Coordinator, Catholic Charities USA, Alexandria, Virginia
"Very clean, very well organized site. Excellent search function. They really want you to find what you're looking for. A copy-heavy site, but graphics interpret the text, with good use of photos and illustrations. Simple, clear navigation."

City of Gaithersburg Home Page
City of Gaithersburg, Maryland
"An inviting, well-organized site. Effective use of color and graphics, but they don't lose sight of the mission, which is to provide content."