Galveston.com wins Interactive Media Award

Tourism website Galveston.com wins the 2006 Interactive Media Awards, according to their newswire to add to their earlier award for Best Overall Website Design in the 2006 American Business Awards. This is one impressive portal to Galveston.

The homepage alone displays current weather and temperature, a rotating news bar, links to video and audio blogs, maps, and a personal itinerary creator, an embedded news aggregator and RSS feed, links to webcams, a google-based keyword search bar, details on four featured items, extensive dropdown menus (43 choices ordered under 4 groups) and sliding menus (29 choices ordered under 4 groups), a link to a newsletter membership form and a lodging reservation search, and a link to the site’s sponsors.
Despite the density of information the layout is clean and efficient. A team of designers from Texas and the UK took over two years to produce this site.

Rule 15 “The Rule of Supporting Busniesses”, in the book ‘The 25 Immutable Rules of Successful Tourism’ by Roger A. Brooks and Maury Forman, tells us that ‘Movie credits tell the real story.’ Have you ever sat in a movie theatre after the ‘The End’ to see the rolling credits? You will realize what it takes to put the project together. Start digging into Galveston.com and you unearth a mountain of partnerships that make a successful website.

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