There was a wonderful night of celebrating New Zealand’s web industry on Friday 19 February. Over 300 people were on hand to witness the inaugural ONYAs awards night. In a space transformed after Webstock, ONYA judges, finalists, Webstock speakers and others from the web industry saw winner announced in 11 categories, culminating the ‘Most Outstanding website’ award.

MC for the night, Russell Brown, kept things on track in his inimitable style, and the awards finished with a truly amazing lightshow courtesy of the Darkroom and Module.

Here’s links to all winners, complete with photos from the night and a short video about each finalist:

Most outstanding website – Xero

Best visual design – Springload

Best user experience – Xero

Best web application – Xero

Most innovative – DNA, YouDo and Powershop

Best content (corporate) – Department of Conservation

Best content (personal) – Zef Fugaz

Best HTML & CSS – Radio New Zealand

Best accessibility – Radio New Zealand

Best mobile application – Cactuslab

Best mobile website or web application – Kiwibank and Springload

Congratulations to all the winners! Also to all the finalists and everyone who entered. A special thanks to James Everett who put together all of the finalist videos.

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