It may be getting colder outside, but that didn’t stop this month’s website of the month competition from hotting up! The contest was as fierce as ever, but when the votes were counted the winner was…
Sweet Memory Lane is a mouth-wateringly lovely sweet shop based in Ashby De La Zouch, Leicestershire. With stunning creative photography and a wide choice of sweet treats, it’s not surprising that it was a popular choice for our voters!
Congratulations are also in order for The Again Brand and INZIMO, who came in second and third places respectively.
Enter November’s Website of the Month
Entries are now open for November’s competition. Simply email the URL(s) of the Heart Internet hosted sites you want to put forward to [email protected]. The finalists will be chosen on Friday 7th November, and will be put forward for public voting until the end of the month. Good luck!
Congratulations Sweet Memory Lane, great website, we especially like the look of your Vimto bonbons! We are very chuffed to have come second. Thank you Again for the nomination and to everyone who voted 🙂
So how does a website that is basically a £50 template anyone can download and use from Envato win Website of The Month?…Will be interesting to see whether this comment makes it through and the community can have a proper discussion about it – maybe Twitter would be a better place to ask.
Hi Paul,
I’m sure Sweet Memory Lane will get back to you on this themselves, but we can think of a few reasons in the meantime. Firstly, we’ve always encouraged people to consider different factors when voting for their favourite in the Website of the Month competition. A website is much more than just its appearance or its code, although obviously those are significant components. We try to pick a mix of websites to go through to the final round: design and code are factors, but so are unique ideas, good user experience, the interest/novelty factor and any extras, such as integration (for example with social media networks, physical businesses, other groups etc.), content and so on. After we’ve chosen the finalists, we leave it to the internet to decide, so there is often a popularity factor involved too. In this case, this is what the majority rated highly and voted for, and we’ll always support all the websites we put through to the final round. All the submissions we get – and there are a lot – are high-quality in one way or another, so it’s a difficult process all the way through and any of them could be a winner.</p>
But yes, I agree there’s good grounds for several different debates: whether design is the most important factor of a website, should you use templates etc., as long as it doesn’t get personal or non-constructive.
Thanks,
Jenni