AND THE WINNER IS...

The winners of the Brighton & Hove Virtual Festival Web Awards 2001 were announced on Wednesday 5 Sept at an excellent soiree attended by about 100 people at the Sussex Arts Club. And the winners were:

1. Best personal site

WINNER

Brighton & Hove Curry Guide

RUNNERS UP

Spotmap

My Brighton and Hove

2. Best community site

WINNER

Sharkbait - http://www.sharkbait.co.uk

RUNNERS UP

Totally Wired

Not 4 Profit

3. HumanITy Accessibility Award

WINNER

East Sussex Community Information Service

4. Best business site

WINNERS

Brighton Racecourse

Un Do Stress

RUNNERS UP

Electrodisc

Desktop- FX

5. Best local portal

WINNER

The Insight

RUNNERS UP

Virtual Brighton and Hove

Brighton Today

Prizes included free training courses from Enterprise Agency Brighton Hove and Lewes and SCIP and O'Reilly techie manuals. Oh and a certificate and a t-shirt.

Congratulations to all the winners and enormous thanks to the many sponsors who made the competition such a success I'd especially like to thank Simon Fanshawe, Kevin Carey (of www.HumanITy.org.uk and W3C and judge of the Accessibility Award), DJs Chris+Al, the Arts Club and especially Nic Pollinger of Lycos UK, all of whom helped make last night's event an all round tip top bash.

And if you missed it to watch the football then shame on you - we had the telly on in the bar and you'd've only missed the boring second half.

Given its success we're really looking forward to doing the whole thing again next year - especially now that we actually know what we're doing. And by this time next year England will have won the World Cup (oh yeah, really?) so the timing won't be so difficult.

Anyway, hurrah for everyone who entered, voted, judged, sponsored, won, helped, thought of it, did it.

Thanks

Mark Walker

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