TheFWA

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The FWA
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Country England, United Kingdom
First awarded2000
Website https://thefwa.com/
Precedence
EquivalentFavourite Website Awards

FWA(Favourite Website Awards) is an international award platform that honors and rewards web designers, developers and agencies around the world for excellence within the field of web design and development. [1] The FWA was founded in May 2000 [2] by Rob Ford.

Contents

In November 2012, The FWA was the most visited website award program in the history of the internet, with over 170 millions site visits. [3]

Jury

The FWA jury is composed of more than 500 web professionals (200 women + 200 men) from 35 countries. [2]

Awards granted

Hall Of Fame

The FWA Hall of Fame was established in May 2007 (to celebrate the seventh anniversary of the FWA), as a recognition of web's greatest individuals and companies. [3]

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