One of my websites won an award…

5th November 2008 Awards, Design & Development, Showcase

A few months back I was approached by Tom Mursell from NotGoingToUni about redesigning his job board and blog website aimed at teenagers who are leaving school and deciding on which route to take. The initial idea was to simple redesign of the current site and job board to improve the user experience and help raise the profile of his business.

A few phone calls and emails later Tom decided that the best way to push forward was to drop the job board and to concentrate on turning the site in to a resource specialising in information on alternative careers for school and college leavers. A few hours inside Photoshop and a couple of hundred lines of code later www.notgoingtouni.co.uk was born.

Since then Tom has appeared on the radio, at the Labour Conference in Brighton and had countless press promoting the site, but best of all (I think) is that that NotGoingToUni recently won the Best Young Person’s Website Award at the Hants Web Awards 2008.

Now granted it isn’t a Yellow Pencil or a Chip Shop Award but it is the first award that a site that I’ve designed has ever won. Looking at the other nominees the awards seems to be more for the content and ideals behind the website as apposed to the design or in fact the designer, however I can’t help but feel just a little but happy about it winning.

Tom is an amazing young entrepreneur whos business is going from strength to strength and is in the process of re-introducing the job board aspect back into the site so if you know someone who is looking for a career outside the usual channels then point them in that direction.