Contribute to Iowa Web Awards

As we have found out the best way to build a website is to let the community help out. Here’s what we need from you.

1. Logo submissions - We need a snazzy logo to go with our shiny new website. If you are a designer and want to submit something for us to look at please email andy[at]48WebConsulting.com. Once we get a few submissions, we’ll let the community vote on them. The lucky winner will get credit in the footer and their very own blog post with super linkage to their website/portfolio.

2. Let us know what categories you want to see voted on here. Once we have a solid list of categories, we’ll open up the nominations.

3. As I mentioned in #2, the community will nominate all the websites/companies/etc for each category.

4. Once all the above nominees have been submitted and decided upon, you will vote on who wins in each category. Simple, right?

5. Discuss on Twitter using the #IowaWebAwards hashtag

6. Tell all your friends!

We hope to start voting for the 2008 Iowa Web Awards in early September, but we need YOU to help out! We hope you enjoy this project!

Help Us Decide the Categories

At this time we have come up with the following categories:

• Best News Website
• Best Blog
• Best Entertainment Website
• Best Traditional Media Website
• Best Web Designer
• Best Corporate Website
• Best e-Commerce Website
• Best Event
• Coolest Website
• Coolest Web Company
• Coolest Web Developer
• Coolest Web Developer

If you don’t like one, let us know. If you think a new one should be added, let us know. Leave your ideas in the comments on this post so we can easily keep track of the thread.

We don’t want to dictate what is voted on - we want the community to decide. The list above is completely arbitrary and is just a starting point for brainstorming. Once we have gotten a good list of categories going we will close the comments here and proceed with taking nominations for each category.

The 2008 Iowa Web Awards Categories will be finalized on Wednesday, August 27th 2008.