SB Informer
Thursday, January 18, 2007; 05:15 AM
DevStart Inc., a company dedicated to providing quality online services
and resources for small businesses, announced today its "Best of the
Year" awards, recognizing excellence in fields relevant to doing
business on the Internet. The awards feature 18 categories, published
across five different sites of the DevStart network. Each award
category lists companies and projects who distinguished themselves
during the past year, and in the same laid the foundations for
continued quality service and innovation in 2007. DevStart’s “Best of
the Year” awards were introduced in 2005 and were initially an annual
version of HostReview’s industry leading monthly web host awards.
For the first time this year, the range of the awards has been expanded
to cover a wider range of projects and services. In addition to
HostReview’s established industry listing, now the DevStart network is
a host to new award listings, dedicated to website promotion, new web
development technologies, and software products.
Apart from its traditional monthly and annual awards, HostReview.com
expands its recognition of the best web hosting firms with three new
categories reflecting the fast growing and widely diversified hosting
market. The new award categories honor companies, which offer prime
VPS, Windows and co-location web hosting services. PromotionWorld.com’s
awards recognize the best web promotion companies providing search
engine optimization, Pay-Per-Click Advertising, Organic SEO and Link
Popularity solutions. DomainInformer.com lists the top companies in the
domain name registration industry. Web developer directories
JavaScriptSearch.com and WebKnowHow.net present the best software and
web development achievements.
“We are excited by this opportunity to recognize the innovations and
leadership of organizations across so many industries,” said Darren
Tabor, CEO of DevStart. “It is our pleasure to highlight the very best
of the best in Web Hosting, Search Engine Optimization, Open Source
Development, and so many other areas of interest to webmasters and
small business owners.”
The following categories are included in this year’s awards. Next to each category is listed the respective first place winner:
* Best Web Hosting Company – BlueHost
* Fastest Growing Company – Liquid Web
* Best Dedicated Server – The Planet-EV1 Servers
* Best Budget Hosting – BlueHost
* Best Managed Hosting – DataPipe
* Best VPS Hosting – Spry
* Best Windows Hosting – Easy CGI
* Best Co-Location Hosting – Hosted Solutions
* Best SEO Company – Medium Blue
* Best PPC Management – Fathom SEO
* Best Organic SEO – SEO Image
* Best Link Popularity – Customer Magnetism
* Best Domain Name Registrar – Register.com
* Best JavaScript Library – Yahoo! User Interface Library
* Best Ajax Website – Netvibes
* Best Content Management System – Drupal
* Best Open Source Project – Firefox
* Best Web Development Resources Website – A List Apart
About DevStart, Inc.
DevStart, Inc. (http://www.devstart.com)
is a leading online provider of unique content and powerful tools for
the web hosting, website promotion, and domain name registration
industries. Attracting a monthly audience of nearly one million unique
visitors, with decision makers at its core, our strong portfolio of
media properties offer a uniquely collaborative environment for
readers, writers, and advertisers. Since 1998, the DevStart Network has
been a popular and trusted source of information and resources for
webmasters. Our major properties include HostReview, PromotionWorld,
DomainInformer, and a variety of other websites that cater to
webmasters and online business owners. Our experienced staff, unique
editorial features, and powerful free tools make the DevStart Network
the Webmaster’s Homepage.