{"id":5281,"date":"2012-01-05T10:55:46","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T10:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/?p=5281"},"modified":"2012-01-05T10:55:46","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T10:55:46","slug":"website-of-the-month-winner-december-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/website-of-the-month-winner-december-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Website of the Month Winner December 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> We had so many high-quality websites to choose from &#8211; in terms of design, content and\/or originality &#8211; that it was incredibly hard to pick just six for the finals last month. As a result the competition was tougher than ever!<\/p>\n<p>There were plenty of tweets, shares and blog posts zooming around in a battle to win, but in the end there could only be one winner&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.madaboutpies.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"madaboutpies\" src=\"\/blog_assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/madaboutpies.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.madaboutpies.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Mad About Pies<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mad About Pies is an online pie shop offering an impressive range of tasty-looking pies. With a Gourmet Pie of the Month and plenty of information to support the pies, we&#8217;re looking forward to catching up with Phil the Pie Man later on in the month to find out more about his website and the business behind it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Special mention goes to our second and third place winners, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propertyforsaleinportugal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Property for Sale in Portugal<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.byemilykate.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">By Emily Kate<\/a> respectively. All our finalists have fantastic websites we&#8217;re proud to host.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Nominations for January\u2019s contest are now open!<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Got a website hosted with Heart Internet? Then you can enter it (or a client&#8217;s site) for our next Website of the Month competition. Simply email the URL(s) to <b>wotm[at]heartinternet.uk<\/b> before midnight on the 9th January.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Please note that if you\u2019ve submitted your website before and you didn\u2019t make it to the final six, your website will be put forward into the nominations pool automatically so there\u2019s no need to email us again \u2013 we still have your entry.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Check out the terms and conditions or find out more about the prizes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had so many high-quality websites to choose from &#8211; in terms of design, content and\/or originality &#8211; that it was incredibly hard to pick just six for the finals&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5281","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-website-of-the-month"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - 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