Born on the Web

Macromedia (or Adobe) Flash has turned 10. To celebrate this The Favourite Website Awards teamed up with Adobe to have a poll to see what the most influential Flash sites of each year have been. Starting with sites from 1998 there are polls that last 2 days. '96 and '97 are presented by one site on a wild card. In the end you can vote for the most influential site of the decade. Right now we can vote for the most inspiring site of 2004. The nominees are: - Vodaphone future vision - Powszechny dom kredytowy - Billy Harvey Music (!!!) - .. and Carl De Keyzer Photography, from Belgium's Group94 .. go Belgium! They're all pretty amazing sites, each within its own style. When Billy Harvey music launched I was stunned by what Sofake pulled again. The site has a great concept, it navigates soo smooth and I really love the typical gritty Sofake style. The winner of 1998 is NRG.be, also a Belgian site. It was one of the first Flash sites that made a very big impression on me. The animations they pull were unseen at that time. I checked the NRG sites again a lot during the past years but noting seemed to change. I guess they've been too busy doing stuff for clients. A few months ago when they launched their new site? It's very basic, bus still smooth as can be. The FWA best of Flash poll