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Best Design Firms of 2013 Announced for March by 10 Best Design

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Over the last year, 10 Best Design has rapidly been becoming the #1 ranking, reviews, and awards site for the web design industry. It has helped a vast number of its site visitors find web design companies to service their needs. The 10BD team has now released the winners of the March 2013 Best Design agencies.

The best design company for March 2013 is The Creative Momentum. This firm has achieved this ranking in its second 10 Best Design award. The Creative Momentum is based in Atlanta, Georgia and works with clients in a wide variety of industries. 10 Best Design has acknowledged this agency for exemplary work on sites which showcase modern design and user-friendly functionality.

Coming in second place is Vento Solutions. Vento has actually received three 10 Best Design awards and is known as a consistently high performing web design company. Vento is based in New York City and has an online marketing team in San Francisco. They have worked with entrepreneurs and multi-national companies alike.

Fastspot has been ranked third this month. Based in Baltimore, Maryland, Fastspot has dozens of accolades, from Addys to Webbys to W3 awards. Their team focuses on strategic branding and interactive marketing, and this award recognizes them for the success for their websites.

The complete best design winners are as follows:
The Creative Momentum (Atlanta, Georgia)
Vento Solutions (New York, New York)
Fastspot (Baltimore, Maryland)
Bayshore Solutions (Tampa Bay, Florida)
Zenman (Denver, Colorado)
Dorey Design Group (Portland, Oregon)
Skuba Design (New Orleans, Louisiana)
Gravitate Design (Vancouver, Washington)
Artropolis (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Cofa Media (San Diego, California)

This year, 10 Best Design has rolling submissions to their monthly awards, and those submission are now available through the 10 Best Design awards page.

10 Best Web Design Firms of 2013 Announced in 10 Best Design’s February Release

10 Best Design recently launched their revitalized website as a result of their great success in terms of web traffic and publicity. With these new beginnings, 10 Best Design is proud to announce the winners of the ’10 Best Web Design Firms of 2013’ for the month of February.

10 Best Web Design Firms of 2013 by 10 Best Design

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10 Best Design has become one of the industry leaders in ranking the best web design companies and top web development firms. Their work has aided thousands in search of the right agency for their project. They are proud to announce the first release of their ’10 Best Web Design Firms of 2013’ awards this February.

This month’s first place winner is Forix Web Design. Forix is located in Portland, Oregon, and works with businesses from all across the country. They have been involved with projects ranging from automotive to food & beverage; although, their primary competency is e-commerce. This will be the second time that Forix has received an award from 10 Best Design for excellence in web design services.

The second best web design firm for February 2013 isThe Creative Momentum. The Creative Momentum, based in Atlanta, Georgia, specializes in custom web design and development for businesses. They offer a wide range of web services and often produce designs which are fun and a bit quirky. This ‘Best Web Design Firm of 2013’ award will be their first from 10 Best Design.

Last year’s overall best design company, Vento Solutions, has come in #3 this month. Vento’s team consistently comes up with high quality designs and intuitive layouts. This boutique web design firm has a solid handle on the balance of form and function. Vento Solutions has been awarded a number of web design awards by both 10 Best Design and other design awards organizations.

The complete list of February’s Best Design Firms is as follows:
1. Forix Web Design (Portland, Oregon)
2. The Creative Momentum (Atlanta, Georgia)
3. Vento Solutions (New York, New York)
4. Artropolis (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
5. Fastspot (Baltimore, Maryland)
6. Doejo (Chicago, Illinois)
7. iCreative Canvas (Irvine, California)
8. Cofa Media (San Diego, California)
9. Clocktower Media (Seattle, Washington)
10. Ride for the Brand (Dallas, Texas)

The companies above have been ranked within the ‘10 Best Web Design Firms of 2013’ awards for excellence in their industry according to the 10 Best Design Analytics Review. This review process includes in-depth analysis of client work, satisfaction rankings, company website analysis and much more.

To learn more or to submit to upcoming awards, contact 10 Best Design.

Web Design Awards Organizations – 10 Best Design – Announces Immense Growth in Light of a Downward Pointing Market Segment

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10 Best Design (10BD) first started by evaluating the best web design firms from around the world. Their rankings can be found on notable publications such as the Boston Globe’s Boston.com, the San Francisco Chronicle’s SFGate.com, and CBSMoneywatch.com. Over the last several months, 10 Best Design has been going toe to toe with some of the web design awards organizations which previously dominated the landscape. 10 Best Design is proud to announce that market research (Provided by Compete.com) suggests that 10BD has been gaining critical positioning and traffic despite an overall decline visitors to other web design awards sites.

Web Design Rankings & Reviews: 10 Best Design
 Other Web Design Awards Site Traffic
Web Design Rankings & Reviews: Top SEOs
Web Design Rankings & Reviews: awwards
Web Design Rankings & Reviews: Webby Awards

10BD web design awards‘ visitor traffic has been growing at a rate of about 50% – up to 90% – per month since as long ago as June. Conversely, 10 Best Design’s competitors have been decreasing steadily over the same period.

10 Best Design has usurped top ranking positions on search engines like Google and Bing for keyword phrases such as “Best Web Design Firms.” According to Google Analytics and the web traffic market research firm, Compete.com, 10 Best Design has been growing rapidly while sites of a similar nature have been experiencing negative growth.

Since July 2012, 10 Best Design’s web design awards have been increasing in traffic at a compounded monthly rate of nearly 50% (Google Analytics). At the same time, similar web design awards sites, such as TopSEOs, Awwwards, and Webby Awards, have been losing a large portion of their web traffic – an average decrease of 81.10% from April 2012 to November 2012 (Compete.com). See 10 Best Design’s traffic compared to the competition.

The following statistics directly reflect the research preformed by Compete.com.

TopSEOS.com Traffic According to Compete.com:
April 2012 – 24,443 visitors/month
November 2012 – 7,349 visitors/month

Awwwards Traffic According to Compete.com:
April 2012 – 46,358 visitors/month
November 2012 – 11,468 visitors/month

Webby Awards Traffic According to Compete.com:
April 2012 – 239,966 visitors/month
November 2012 – 4,507 visitors/month

10 Best Design is rapidly becoming the one of the top web design awards companies online, and their 2013 competitions are beginning to fill up. To leveraging the publicity and exposure offered by 10 Best Design’s web design awards, submit a website or web design firm.

Web Design Awards Traffic Comparison – 10 Best Design, TopSEOs, Webby Awards, Awwwards

Below you will find traffic information about some of the top web design awards organizations:

10 Best Design is the #1 ranking and reviews organization for websites & web design companies. Our site has been growing at a rate of more than 50% per month over the last 4 months.

Conversely, other web design awards organizations have been steadily declining in traffic – according to the Compete.com web traffic statistics. [See Graphs Below]

Web Design Rankings & Reviews: 10 Best Design

Other Web Design Awards Site Traffic

Web Design Rankings & Reviews: Top SEOs
Web Design Rankings & Reviews: awwards
Web Design Rankings & Reviews: Webby Awards
Our 2013 AWARDS are coming up quick!

Enter early & be the first to the starting line! Don’t miss your chance to have 10BD review your WEBSITE or WEB DESIGN FIRM!

Best Web Design of 2012 Magazine Publication Planned by 10 Best Design

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As the internet’s premier web design rankings and reviews organization, 10 Best Design (10BD) has grown from a mere list of the 10 best web design firms to a comprehensive amalgamation of the best web designs from categories of all sorts. After an extremely successful year, 10 Best Design has announced plans to release a magazine publication about the best web designs of 2012.

10 Best Design was originally created by individuals who have long been involved with the web design industry. The team wanted to create a better way for those seeking web design services to find the best firms to fulfill design and development needs.

The 10 Best Design magazine will include some trade information about recent trends, but will focus heavily on award winners from this past year. Several of the Best Design Awards which will be featured in the magazine will include the overall best firms of 2012 and everything from e-commerce to medical industry web design awards.

10BD’s Best Web Design Firms of 2012 were released early last year and have directed tens of thousands to these award winners.

The 10 Best Design’s 2012 firms are as follows:
1. Vento Solutions (New York City, New York)
2. maoStudios (Seattle, Washinton)
3. Bayshore Solutions (Tampa, Florida)
4. Magic Logix (Dallas, Texas)
5. Orbit Media Studios (Chicago, Illinois)
6. Fusionbox (Denver, Colorado)
7. Green Tie Marketing (Kansas City, Missouri)
8. Southern Web Group (Atlanta, Georgia)
9. Thought Lab (Salt Lake City, Utah)
10. Forix Web Design (Portland, Oregon)

The companies awarded above were selected as the best web design firms of 2012 through a proprietary process known as the 10 Best Design Analytic Review. This review process compared businesses from every U.S. state based on a wide array of variables. 10 Best Design assesses things such as pricing, on-time delivery, technical programming skills, design planning, and much more.

10 Best Design expects their magazine publication to be released early this year.

Best Web Design Firms of 2013 Awards Registration Launched by 10 Best Design

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10 Best Design (10BD) has been rating and reviewing web designs and web design firms from all reaches of North America, and the organization has become notable within the industry as a result. 10BD’s biggest awards are given out annually to the best web design firms. The 2012 awards have been featured in dozens of online publications and have been seen by tens of thousands of web services seekers. 10BD’s Best Web Design Firms of 2013 awards have officially begun to accept submissions for registration.

The 10 Best Web Design Firms of 2012 received immense publicity because of the award’s growing popularity. The 2012 firms found their names on the likes of Bloomberg Businessweek, CBS Moneywatch, TechCrunch, and much more. One of the companies even reported that traffic to their website increased by as much as 300% as a direct result of their award.

 

10 Best Design believes that similar results await the future winners of their 2013 Best Web Design Firms Awards.

Award winners came from all over the U.S.A. – from Tampa Bay, Florida to Portland, Oregon and beyond.

The complete list of 10BD’s Best Web Design Firms of 2012 is as follows:
1. Vento Solutions (San Francisco, California & New York City, New York)
2. maoStudios (Seattle, Washinton)
3. Bayshore Solutions (Tampa, Florida)
4. Magic Logix (Dallas, Texas)
5. Orbit Media Studios (Chicago, Illinois)
6. Fusionbox (Denver, Colorado)
7. Green Tie Marketing (Kansas City, Missouri)
8. Southern Web Group (Atlanta, Georgia)
9. Thought Lab (Salt Lake City, Utah)
10. Forix Web Design (Portland, Oregon & Seattle, Washington)

2012′s winner, Vento Solutions, was a breakthrough, boutique design agency with client accounts from coast to coast, and as far away as Hong Kong and Rio de Janeiro. The runner up, maoStudios, has worked with companies such as Double Helix Games and Crayola.

Best Medical Web Design Awards Reveal Date Announced by 10 Best Design

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10 Best Design (10BD) has directed tens of thousands of web searchers to the organization’s top web design agencies. Their awards have received both national and international acknowledgement and have grown in popularity at an astonishing rate. Today, 10BD takes yet another step towards cataloguing the best web designs produced in North America by announcing the reveal date of this month’s Best Medical Web Design Awards.

“The winners of the Best Medical Web Designs Awards will be announced in the first week of January, making them the first of the New Year!” says a 10 Best Design spokesperson. “Submission to this competition is still open,” he added.

Last year, 10 Best Design received significant recognition for their awards given to the 10 Best Web Design Agencies of 2012. Write-ups about these awards were seen in online publications such as CBS Moneywatch, Yahoo! News, the Cincinnati Enquirer, and many more.

The 10 Best Design website now appears at the top of Google searches for a wide variety of ‘best web design’ related searches, as it begins to claim its position as the internet’s best web design rating organization.

10BD’s Top Web Design Agencies of 2012 are as follows:
1. Vento Solutions (San Francisco, California & New York City, New York)
2. maoStudios (Seattle, Washinton)
3. Bayshore Solutions (Tampa, Florida)
4. Magic Logix (Dallas, Texas)
5. Orbit Media Studios (Chicago, Illinois)
6. Fusionbox (Denver, Colorado)
7. Green Tie Marketing (Kansas City, Missouri)
8. Southern Web Group (Atlanta, Georgia)
9. Thought Lab (Salt Lake City, Utah)
10. Forix Web Design (Portland, Oregon)

These companies were selected as the best web design firms of 2012 through a proprietary process known as the 10 Best Design Analytic Review, which compares businesses based on a number of variables which take into account things such as pricing, on-time delivery, technical programming skills, design planning, and many more.

The 10 Best Design’s team is made up of individuals who have an intimate knowledge of online branding and web design & development. The 10 Best Design Analytic Review rates and reviews the best web design firms based on a large number of qualitative and quantitative ranking points. With this in mind, positions on the 10 Best Design lists are granted only to those companies already in the 10BD Web Development Directory and are a result of 10BD’s 10 Best Design Analytic Review Algorithm, which includes client research, online research, reviews, previous accolades, traffic and other SEO rankings, proprietary analytics, and other ranking sources.

Best eCommerce Web Design Awards Released as 10 Best Design Announces Open Registration for Upcoming Medical Design Awards

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Last month was 10 Best Design‘s inaugural website design awards ceremony in which ecommerce sites received rankings for the top 10. The winners of the 10 Best eCommerce Web Design Awards have already become the subject of write-ups on other online sources. This month, 10 Best Design is proudly announces open registration to December’s Medical Web Design Awards.

10 Best Design is an organization dedicated to helping people and businesses find the best web design firms for upcoming projects. The organization first became popular for its Best Web Design Firms Awards, but it has also recently been involved with category specific site design competitions.

10BD proudly announces that owners of medical sites and agencies which have created some of the best medical web designs are now allowed to submit websites for ranking in the last of these monthly events for 2012.

“2012 has been amazing for us,” says a 10 Best Design spokesperson. “All the awards that were released this year were well-received by the public, the design agencies, and now the site owners too.”

The Best eCommerce Web Design Awards were announced just over a week ago. The winners are as follows:

1. Shoe Guru by Threefifty
2. 47 Brand by Silvertech
3. Tinkering Monkey by Quite Curious
4. Black Goat Cashmere by NAC Media
5. Pet Rock by My Web WOW!
6. Famous 4th Street Cookies by Singularity Design
7. Atom Bicycles by Ola Interactive Agency
8. Cellar Thief by Simple Flame
9. Seibei by Double Dragon Studios
10. Porch Potty by Border7

“We would like to congratulate all of our award winners from this year, including our Best Web Design Firms, Best eCommerce Web Designs, and this month’s Best Medical Web Designs,” the 10BD spokesperson went on to say. “Next year though, we expect to see new award winners in virtually every industry and website category!”

10 Best Design has indicated that over the next year, their team will be working to support individuals as they seek design agencies, regardless of location, type project, or design versus development job.

Submit to 10 Best Design’s Medical Web Design Awards now!

Best eCommerce Web Design Competition Results Announced by 10 Best Design

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10 Best Design compiles, reviews, and ranks the best web designs and web design agencies in North America. Their awards have been tremendously popular and they have been growing at an extremely rapid rate, but today, the organization takes a monumental new step as they release their first ever monthly web design competition results.

10 Best design is proud to announce the following winners of their Best eCommerce Web Design awards (November 2012):
1. Shoe Guru by Threefifty
2. 47 Brand by Silvertech
3. Tinkering Monkey by Quite Curious
4. Black Goat Cashmere by NAC Media
5. Pet Rock by My Web WOW!
6. Famous 4th Street Cookies by Singularity Design
7. Atom Bicycles by Ola Interactive Agency
8. Cellar Thief by Simple Flame
9. Seibei by Double Dragon Studios
10. Porch Potty by Border7

Each of the ecommerce web designs above are believed to be among the top that the internet has to offer. These 10 best ecommerce web designs stand apart from the thousands of other online stores as a result of their designers attention to detail and mastery of digital aesthetics.

In this contest, the 10BD team received entries from around the world. After much deliberation and implementation of the organization’s proprietary “10 Best Design Analytic Review” the online stores above were given the title of Best eCommerce Web Designs of 2012.

Shoe Guru was named the #1 ecommerce site of the year. It is an online shoe store which was designed to give trendsetters a place to buy shoes and sneakers which are ahead of current fashion movements. The ecommerce web design created for this website successfully matches the trendiness of their products through a simplistic and minimalist design.

The ecommerce web site itself mimics the look and feel of being in a real shoe store. This site was designed by Threefifty, a web solutions agency located in Edmonton, Alberta. This site was named the Best eCommerce Web Design for its intuitive UI/UE and its incredible visual balance and beauty.

A close second in November’s monthly web design competition is the amazingly stylish 47 Brand. This ecommerce web site was designed in a very modern way. It has the feel of an interactive magazine or catalogue. Large images and easy-to-use menus allows visitors to sift through products in an organized and targeted manner.

The 47 Brand ecommerce site, which sells fan apparel licensed by the NFL, NBA, MLB, and NHL, was designed and built SilverTech, Inc. based in New Hampshire.

10BD’s Best Design firms awards have been helping individuals and businesses looking for web design services across the country. The organization first decided to embark on their path to monthly web design competitions when they realized that they could be doing even more to guide site visitors in the search.

The Best eCommerce Web Design Competition is meant to act as a guide for anybody thinking about building an online store. While 10BD’s overall best web design firms are considered the best design agencies in general, the sites and companies featured in these category-specific sections can aid those looking for particular types of web development experts.

For more information about 10 Best Design or the Best eCommerce Web Design of 2012, don’t hesitate to contact the 10BD team.

eCommerce Web Design Competition Grows in Popularity: 10 Best Design’s Monthly Contest Gets Exciting

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10 Best Design (10BD), one of America’s top web design ranking and reviews organizations, announced plans to begin monthly competitions for industry specific website design contests just a couple of weeks ago, and roughly one week later, the competition was open for submissions. The competition launched with November’s eCommerce Web Design Competition submission, and the 10BD team hasn’t looked back!

10 Best Design is a renowned reviewer of web design companies, and they announced that their organization would be accepting submissions for their very first monthly categorical web design competition in mid-October. In the past, 10BD has only ranked web design companies in their annual Best Web Design Firms awards, but this advancement allows for a specialized look at websites which directly compete with one another within their industry.

Companies who run ecommerce websites or web design firms who have built world class ecommerce platforms are now allowed to submit to the monthly contest through 10 Best Design’s competition submission pages. The eCommerce Web Design competition surely shaping up to be amazing

The new web design competition will be held every month to aid those seeking web design services by directing them to the best in any given specific field or industry. In the first month, 10 Best Design will be holding an ecommerce web design contest. This competition will guide ecommerce site seekers to the top 10 ecommerce developers.

10 Best Design first gained notoriety through their yearly web design firms awards. The Best Web Design Firms 2012 Awards granted ten design agencies from across the United States with awards and trophies, and it increased the organizations following by roughly 100%.

In fact, the 10 Best Design website grew its traffic to thousands of monthly visitors, and the 10BD name appeared in online publications such as CBS MoneyWatch, the Houston Chronicle, the Indianapolis Business Journal, and the Boston Globe.

November’s eCommerce Web Design Competition will only be the first installation of this monthly event. Following months will likely include non-profit, healthcare, commodities, emerging social networks, technologies, and many other web design competitions.

10 Best Design is committed to providing web design consumers with the best information, allowing them to find the web design firm which best matches their needs. 10BD management believes these targeted awards will further this initiative.

“Using these [targeted web design competitions], we can help people looking for a specific type of web design find a company with proven results and experience in that exact style of site,” points out a 10 Best Design spokesperson.

10BD’s Best Design awards has gotten the 10 Best Design name on websites such as CBS Moneywatch, the Boston Globe’s Boston.com, and the San Francisco Chronicle’s SFGate.com – to name a few.

In fact, the site’s web traffic has been growing exponentially since it was first published roughly one year ago, and 10 Best Design’s Twitter account grew by as much as double for a number of months in a row.

After appearing as 10BD’s #1 Best Web Design Firm of 2012, Vento Solutions also admits to experiencing a significant and consistent increase in their web traffic.

Today, 10BD continues to prosper as they work to expand the reach of their awards and competitions. They expect that as they target more and more specific branches of web design, their ability to guide visitors of their site to the best of the best will only improve.

“We hope [site visitors] will use our web design competitions to guide them in their website build process,” says the 10 Best Design spokesmen.

Click here to submit to the Web Design Competition.