Voting Has Started and Will Continue Through March 21st
The 2012 About.com Readers’ Choice Awards will showcase the best products, features and services in dozens of categories. Readers’ Choice includes multiple channels ranging from technology to hobbies to parenting. Nominations will be accepted starting Jan. 18, 2012. Voting will take place from Feb. 22 through March 21 with winners announced March 30. There’s no prize—just the bragging rights that come with getting recognized by the readers of one of the most popular websites. Find out more at awards.about.com.
Please make your nominations in the following categories:
1. Best Web Design
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What web pages inspire you? There are so many web designs on the internet, but some are better than others. Now is your chance to share your favorite web designs. These are the designs that you wish your site looked like.
Nominate and vote for the best web design in the 2012 About.com Readers' Choice Awards
2. Best Hosting Provider
Web hosting is an important part of web design. After all, you can’t post a website without web hosting. But knowing the best one to use can be daunting.
Is your hosting provider the best of the best? Do they provide the best service with the best features for the best price? Nominate and vote for the best web hosting provider.
3. Best Windows Web Design Editor
In order to build websites, you need an editor. You can use something as simple as Notepad or as complicated as Dreamweaver, but whatever you use, it needs to fit your needs to build your website.
What web editor (for Windows) is the best of the best? Which editor provides the most features for the best price? Nominate and vote for the best Windows web editor.
4. Best Macintosh Web Design Editor
In order to build websites, you need an editor. You can use something as simple as TextEdit or as complicated as Dreamweaver, but whatever you use, it needs to fit your needs to build your website.
What web editor (for Macintosh) is the best of the best? Which editor provides the most features for the best price? Nominate and vote for the best Macintosh web editor.
5. Best Website or Blog for Web Designers
Where do you go to get more information about web design and HTML? There are lots of websites and blogs (apart from this one, of course) where you can go to learn to build web pages and find out the newest web design techniques. What websites do you think are the best of the best for web designers? Nominate and vote for your favorite sites.
6. Best Twitter Account for Web Designers to Follow
If you like to get up-to-the-minute updates on your favorite topics, Twitter can be a very useful tool. There are hundreds of web designers tweeting about web design every day.
Which Twitter accounts are the best for web designers to follow? Nominate and vote for the best Twitter accounts for web designers.
7. Best Website Design of a US Presidential Candidate
For fun, I decided to add a category that doesn’t need nominations. The United States is in an election year, and there are currently five candidates for president. Now you have the chance to vote for the candidate with the best web design. And you don’t need to be a U.S. citizen to vote in this poll!
8. Best Mobile App for Web Designers
This category was cancelled due to lack of sufficient nominations.
Mobile devices like Android phones and iPads are becoming very common. And there are millions of apps you can use on them. I have found a lot of apps I use every day for building and maintaining websites, choosing colors, finding domains, and much more.
What are your favorite Android or iPhone apps for web designers? Which apps offer the best features or use the mobile device attributes with the most panache? Nominate and vote for your favorite iPhone or Android apps for web designers.
9. Best Facebook Page for Web Designers to Like
This category was cancelled due to lack of sufficient nominations.
Facebook is another place where you can get information about web design and connect with other designers. But like websites, there are thousands of pages to choose from.
What Facebook pages do you visit to get web design information or to chat with other designers? Nominate and vote for the best Facebook page for web designers.
