The transportation industry represents significant categories in the WebAward competition including having consistently been scored highest in content, copyrighting and interactivity.

“Web sites are extremely important to company success in the transportation industry,” said William Rice, President of the Web Marketing Association. “Companies who enter can benefit from the independent evaluation and recognition of their online efforts provided by the WebAward competition and continue to provide visitors with outstanding websites.”

Transportation Industry websites are judged on the following seven criteria:
•     Design
•     Innovation
•     Content
•     Technology
•     Interactivity
•     Copy writing
•     Ease of use

The WebAward Competition’s goal is to provide a forum to recognize the people and organizations responsible for developing the most effective transportation websites on the Net today.

This year’s best web sites along with past WebAward winners in the transportation industry are:
Best Transportation Website
2006 Freedom of the Seas Website - www.freedomoftheseas.com
2005 ECourier - http://www.ecourier.co.uk
2004 FedEx Identity - http://www.fedexidentity.com/
2003 GetMeThere - http://www.getmethere.co.uk/
2002 - FedEx InSight - http://www.fedex.com/insight

A complete list of past and present WebAward winners can be found at: http://transportation.webaward.org

The WebAward competition awards web sites in 96 industries as well as determining overall web site awards including Best of Show.

The 2006 Best of Show WebAward was presented to New York-based Big Spaceship (www.bigspaceship.com), for its outstanding work on the "TBS: Department of Humor Analysis" web site at www.tbshumorstudy.com. Big Spaceship joined forces with Mother Interactive to turn their very silly questionnaire into an addictive, fully interactive web site.

R/GA (www.rga.com) was named Top Agency at the 2006 WebAward Competition, taking home 19 WebAwards.

The 2006 WebAward Competition sponsors include:
BURST! Media (www.burstmedia.com)
Misukanis & Odden (www.misukanisodden.com)
SimpleFeed (www.simplefeed.com)
Register.com (www.register.com)
NewsUSA (www.newsusa.com)
AdTools Inc(www.adtoolsinc.com)
Small Army (www.smallarmy.net)
TopRank Online Marketing (www.toprankresults.com)
Creative Chocolate Printing Company (www.creativechocolateprinting.com)
Perseus Development Corp (www.perseus.com)
PRWeb (www.prweb.com)

Media Sponsors include:
Website Services Magazine (www.websiteservices.com)
AdRants (www.adrants.com)
MarketingVox (www.marketingvox.com)
MediaPost (www.wediapost.com)
eComXpo (www.ecomxpo.com)
Ad:Tech (www.ad-tech.com)
Macworld (www.macworldexpo.com)

The Web Marketing Association thanks all of its sponsors for helping to make this annual competition possible.

About the Web Marketing Association
The Web Marketing Association is working to create a high standard of excellence for Web site development and marketing on the Internet. Staffed by volunteers, it is made up of Internet marketing, advertising, PR and design professionals who share an interest in improving the quality of Website development and marketing on the Internet.

Since 1997, the Web Marketing Association’s annual WebAward Competition has been helping interactive professionals promote themselves, their companies, and their best work to the outside world. Now in its ninth year, the WebAward Competition has become the premier award event for Web developers and marketers worldwide.

Learn more at www.webward.org.