SILVER AWARD - Mainland Building Solutions

The Mainland Building Solutions website has been awarded a silver medal by the official judges of the Australian Web Designers Network. The award is judged on the following categories: Graphics, Artwork, Layout, Navigability, Functionality and Originality.

RMW Web Publishing would like to thank John at Mainland for the opportunity to re-design there online presence and hope they are getting the most from their new website.

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GOLD AWARD - Peter Blake

We've done it again. Last night an email was recieved telling us of our latest award. This time the honours go to the Peter Blake website. Peter's site has been chosen for a Gold Award by the judges of the Australian Web Designers Network for excellence in graphics, artwork, layout, navigability, functionality and originality.

Although RMW Web Publishing did very little to get this scalable and complex site off the ground we did a lot of research in finding something that would suit the purpose while looking good. Like most most projects we do, we look for Open Source projects that can do the hard work for us. This has many benefits for example our customers get tried and tested tools that are continually getting better. It also allows us to pass on massive cost savings and allows you to have a functioning site much quicker than if it was built from scratch. Althouh it sounds simple, there is still a lot that goes into using pre-built packages to make complete and usable site. Often installing and setting up the software is a complex process prone to errors resulting in many hours troubleshooting. Once the package is working we then have to get our "heads around" the code methadology in which it was written to then customise the default design to our clients requirements. During this phase we often come across bugs or better ways to write the original packages code. When we do, we write a detailed description of the issue and inform the package owners of a fix or improvement. Taking the time to do this benefits all users of the package and our clients.

The Peter Blake website for instance uses a modifed version of a pre-built theme named iRoybots SlatyStain by Erik Poehler. Changes to the theme include a custom header, a visit counter and a "pages" category among other small changes. This modified theme sits on top of the very popular blogging platform WordPress which allows Peter and this team mates to update the site instantley from any internet connected computer.

Peter Blake is an upcoming Sprint Car driver in car 48N. Peter currently races in most meets at Parramatta City Raceway. Peter's site was created free of charge in exchange for advertising space on his car.

BRONZE AWARD - RMW Web Publishing

This time it's our turn. Australian Web Designers Network has awarded us a bronze medal in the Website Awards our homepage. At present our site is merely a placeholder for a much larger site it does serve a very important job. The site is coded using the web standards and is quick loading showing our developer expertise. A fun feature of the site is a simple JavaScript function which allows you to view the site with a variety of different background colours (hover your mouse over the coloured squares on the left of the footer). The site also allows visitors to sample some of our recently designed sites and contains a contact form to allow users can contact us for further information. There is also a simple 'client' page that allows our clients to login and make instantaneous changes to their own websites.

You may be wondering why a web development business such as ours has such a small site. The reason is quite simple; we are too busy building sites for others. The website has been kept simple so that we can continue to put our customers first. But we are working on a bigger, more informative site (and have been for long time - in our "downtime") and hope to have it ready for the May CSS Reboot. The CSS Reboot is a day when web professionals around the world collectively update the design of their sites which is very easy to do when your site's presentation is controlled entirely by a single CSS file.

RMW Web Publishing would once again like to thank Australian WebDesigners.Net for their continued support and recognition. We would also like to thank all our site visitors and clients. Thank you and be sure to visit the site again soon.

GOLD AWARD - TRON Financial Services

Seven Hills based web development studio, RMW Web Publishing has recieved a Gold Award in the first Australian Web Designers Network Website Awards for its efforts on the TRON Financial Services website. The medal is awarded by an official panel after much consideration and deliberation on areas like graphics, artwork, layout, navigability, functionality and originality.

RMW Web Publishing would like to thank Australian WebDesigners.Net for their the recognition of the TRON website's design and development. Thank you.

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SITE OF THE DAY - TRON Financial Services

We've done it again. Almost four years since the site first launched, but only a few months after the redesign; Australian WebDesigners.Net has awarded TRON Financial Services "Site of the Day" for the 8th of November 2005.

Again we would like to thank Australian WebDesigners.Net for their continued recognition and TRON for allowing us to maintain their creative web presence. Well done.

SITE OF THE DAY - Syndian Natural Food Products

Today we feel quite honoured as our latest site (www.syndian.com.au) was awarded 'Site of the day' and was featured on the front page of Australian WebDesigners.Net.

We'd like to thank Syndian for allowing us to create the site and Australian WebDesigners.Net for rewarding us for the effort. Thank you.