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Davey Awards, Gold Award Winner!

Monday, April 12th, 2010No Comments »


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Media Contour is proud to be the winner in this year’s Davey Awards Gold in web design and promotion category! Congratulations team!

We treated our website redesign like we would for our clients. We carefully reviewed the previous design then highlighted its strengths and eliminated its weaknesses. Most importantly, it was a team effort. Matt, our CEO and managing director, organized the content and focused MC’s selling points. Alex, Luke and Victor designed and developed the final product. Gaberial came in at the ended and added his Javascript magic. The site is powered by SilverStripe’s CMS.

About the Davey Award

“We were once again excited to honor and recognize the amazing work submitted into this year’s Davey Awards and are humbled by the exceptional work we have grown accustomed to seeing year after year. This year’s competition saw an increasing diversified pool of entries and the high quality of work continues to push the limits of creative possibilities throughout the industry,” noted Linda Day, Executive Director of the IAVA.

The Davey Awards is an international creative award focused exclusively on honoring outstanding creative work from the best small firms worldwide. Entries are judged to evaluate distinction in creative work. In determining Gold and Silver winners, entries are judged on their merits based on a standard of excellence as determined by the IAVA, considering the category entered. A category may have multiple Gold and Silver Winners, or may have none. Entries are scored on a ten point scale by the judges. Generally, Gold Winners receive a score of 9.0 or above and Silver Winners receive a score of 7.0 to 8.9. No more than 10% of entries will be awarded a Gold Davey. Best in Show selections are made by the Academy from the pool of Gold Winners, based on their scoring and other elements of merit as determined by the Academy. The judges will award 10 Best in Show honors, one for each medium. Please visit www.daveyawards.com for a complete list of winners.

10 Common Design Flaws that Frustrate Your Website’s Users

Wednesday, August 5th, 20095 Comments »


At one time or another, we have all visited a website that is so confusing and poorly-designed that it is not worth wasting any time or effort on.  Some webmasters are so focused on collecting information from their users that they overload their visitors with requests and instructions.  Other websites are simply annoying.  Listed here are some of the most common features of a website that frustrate visitors.

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Keep Your Website Alive and Thriving with Regular Maintenance

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009No Comments »


Practically every business knows they need to keep their services and offerings fresh and up-to-date if they want to please their customers. The same is true for websites. Search engines and visitors alike become bored with old, outdated websites that fail to offer anything new. Broken links, antiquated news and dated content cripple your website, impairing your ability to attract new traffic.

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Does Your Website Send the Wrong Message?

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009No Comments »


Today it seems as though there is a race for businesses to get online.  Sure, there are templates that allow you to “fill in the blanks,” add a few stock photos and throw up a website real quick.  This is the cheap way to do it, but what most businesses don’t realize is that when you use a template that thousands of other websites have used, you’re business is also seen as “cheap.”

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New Office, New Website, New Attitude

Monday, April 20th, 2009No Comments »


Media Contour has finished unpacking the last few boxes in our new studio and the MC team just put the final touches on our fresh new website. That means it’s time to announce an all new Media Contour.

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