Barclays won five awards at the 2008 W3 Awards competition. The awards honour creative excellence on the web and recognise outstanding work for Barclays Communities and Barclays Chairman’s Awards microsites. The Barclays microsites were created by web agency cScape.
Receiving over 3,000 entries, the W3 Awards honours outstanding Web sites, Web marketing, and Web video created by some of the best interactive agencies, designers, and creators worldwide. “We were amazed at the calibre and quality of work received this year. Our winners continue to push the envelope of internet creativity and web design, and it is gratifying to see such great work from the smallest agencies to the biggest firms” said Linda Day, the director of the IAVA. “On behalf of the International Academy of the Visual Arts, we are honoured to recognise our winners as they continue to set a high standard of excellence for Web development.”
The award-winning projects are:
Barclays Communities - Silver Award in the Best Home Page Category
Barclays Communities home page provides a route to stories that describe the work Barclays does in various communities. Barclays believes that their business will benefit from contributing to the development and sustainability of the communities where they operate. cScape created a home page that has a dynamic map which shows community projects from each country. Viewers can use the map to see a variety of case studies by zooming in a country or by selecting a global theme.
Barclays Chairman’s Awards - Four Silver Awards in the Community, General Interest Variety, Publishing and Self Promotion Categories
The Barclays Chairman’s Awards celebrate the outstanding achievements and dedication of staff who inspire and motivate their colleagues around them to get involved in causes they care about. cScape designed a microsite aimed at encouraging people to either enter themselves for an award, or to nominate a colleague by inspiring them through case studies of the previous year’s winners.
Debbie Phillips, the Global Community Manager for Barclays Corporate Affairs said “We are delighted to have won these awards from W3. At Barclays we are proud of our leading community investment programme. It’s really important that our stakeholders can engage with us through an inspiring website. cScape has been great in designing dynamic sites that show all the good work that we have done throughout the world.”
cScape Creative Director, Edward Lloyd-Williams said, “I’m thrilled that we won so many awards for two sites. We had some stiff competition and this is a great achievement. I’m glad that all of our hard work has been recognised.”
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About Barclays
Barclays is a major global financial services provider engaged in retail and commercial banking, credit cards, investment banking, wealth management and investment management services, with an extensive international presence in Europe, the USA, Africa and Asia.
About cScape
cScape is an award winning digital agency working with clients in the public sector, financial services, membership and commercial organisations. We offer a full selection of web services, including strategic consultancy, technical solutions and creative design. Our exceptional skills and passionate team of specialists have earned us an excellent reputation amongst clients and industry peers.