What’s your favorite website? It’s a difficult question to answer…particularly if you’re handing out “Favourite Website Awards.” Each day the UK-based team behind The FWA selects a site from scores of international submission to recognize the very best in website design. Winners are honored with the coveted “FWA Site of the Day.” On January 22nd, 2012, that honor belonged to Enlighten’s WhatWasThere.

This marks the crowdsourced historical photograph site’s first win of the year after receiving a prestigious “Outstanding Website” award in the 2011 Web Marketing Association’s WebAward competition. It’s particularly desirable for two reasons: mass exposure and industry respect.

The FWA site receives about 4.7 million visits per month from over 180 different countries. Couple that with WhatWasThere’s fast-growing international audience and it bodes very well for a record-breaking traffic year.

There are always benefits to being singled out, but never more than when the distinction comes from a panel of our peers. Not only are all submissions reviewed by the public, but they’re also evaluated by a band of agency and client-side experts from around the world. Sites are judged on design (40%), navigation (25%), graphics (15%), content (15%) and personality (5%). A special shout out to the Enlighten team responsible for the great work: Steve Glauberman, founder and CEO; Laurel Erickson, senior digital strategist; Mike Gatto, executive art director; Adam Kempa, senior software engineer; Karen Ford, software engineer; and Voratima Orawannukul, software engineer.

Thanks to The FWA for highlighting WhatWasThere as one of the great websites of 2012. Our year is off to a great start.

For more information, contact:
Tessa Wegert, Communications Director
734.929.1937
twegert@enlighten.com