Best Energy Website Trends Detailed in New Report from the Web Marketing Association

Updated Web Marketing Association Internet Standards Assessment Report Includes Historical Data Derived from a Decade of Hosting Premier Internet Award Competition, WebAwards, Provides Best Practices for Energy Web Design

West Simsbury, CT -- WebAward08.org -- The Web Marketing Association, host of arch website awards antagonism WebAwards, afresh appear the Internet Standards Assessment Report (ISAR), which includes specific benchmarking abstracts to advice the activity industry actualize added award-winning websites.

"As the accepted of arete for websites continues to increase, web visitors are added captious about what they accede to be an able website," said William Rice, admiral of the Web Marketing Association. "The best Energy Websites, both chump and B2B, are accurate e-commerce sites advised to body a continued appellation accord with users and key constituencies, including government regulators and shareholders."

The WebAwards antagonism evaluates activity websites on seven belief that accumulated actualize able websites:
 

Design Innovation Content Technology Interactivity Copywriting Ease of use
Energy Web sites accept underperformed the ISAR basis back 2001, although the accomplished four years they accept underperformed the basis by alone a slight margin. Energy Web sites are able in content, copywriting, and affluence of use. They akin the 5-year belief archetype in the affluence of use across and almost absent the archetype in copywriting. According to the study, Energy Web sites tend to lag in addition and technology.

The 2007 WebAward for Best Energy Web website went to Dell Global Site Design for Dell Earth.

Other accomplished winners include:
 

2006 Edison International for Edison International's website 2005 Macquarium for AGL Resources 2004 Abengoa Bioenergy for Abengoa Bioenergy Corp. 2003 APS for aps.com E-care 2002 Rhino Internet Solutions for Arizona Public Service 2001 TXU Global and AGENCY.COM for TXU Global Internet's website 2000 Cole & Weber for betterbricks.com 1999 CITGO Petroleum Group for CITGO.com 1998 Yankee Energy System, Inc. for YES Corporate Site 1997 Yankee Energy System, Inc. for yankeegas.com
Companies and organizations adulatory to accept their activity Web website evaluated adjoin the ISAR Index and be advised for a WebAward, which can advice addition a Website's believability and business efforts, can apprentice added at WebAward08.org.

To appeal your archetype of the 2008 WebAward ISAR report, amuse visit: WebAward08.org and bang on the ISAR argument link

The Internet Standards Assessment address and the 2008 WebAwards are sponsored by the afterward arch organizations: Burst Media, PRWeb, AllBusiness, Misukanis & Odden, Small Army, ExactTarget, ad:tech conferences, NewsUSA, MediaPost's OMMA conference, TopRank Online Marketing, Creative Chocolate Printing Company, PhizzPop, Internet World UK, Search Engine Strategies, Webmaster Radio, Rovion's InPerson, Snap Shots and Website Magazine.

2008 WebAward Call for Entries
The Web Marketing Association will anon be accepting entries into its 12th anniversary all-embracing WebAward Competition. The WebAwards is the standards-defining antagonism that sets industry benchmarks that the Internet Standards Assessment address is based upon. The activity industry represents an important chic in the WebAward competition, and the Web Marketing Association will afresh be anniversary the Best Energy Web website of 2008. Participants will accept admired acknowledgment and the befalling to acquire associate recognition. The borderline for access is May 31, 2008 and the WebAward Web website is amid at WebAward08.org.

About the WebAwards
Now in its 12th year, the anniversary all-embracing WebAwards antagonism sets the accepted of arete in 96 industry categories by evaluating Web sites and defining benchmarks based on the seven capital belief of acknowledged Web website development. The ambition of the Web Marketing Association, sponsor of the WebAwards, is to accommodate a appointment to admit the humans and organizations amenable for developing some of the a lot of able Web sites on the Internet today. Entrants account from a Web website appraisal by a able anticipation console and the business opportunities presented to an award-winning Web site. For added information, appointment WebAward08.org.