Sabrina Dent: Freelance web designer, developer and internet marketer living in Cork, Ireland with one dog and a husband in no particular order.
Most Beautiful Website 2008: TwitterFone.com
At three o’clock this morning, the 2008 Irish Web Awards finally wrapped up after a great night. I was absolutely, insanely, utterly delighted that both Spicendipity and Twitterfone were shortlisted across three categories and that both went home with gongs.
I was also deeply flattered that Deb Hadley asked me to go up with her to collect her Best Ecommerce Site award, and that Pat Phelan, who couldn’t be there, asked me to collect anything for Twitterfone if it won.
Twitterfone was up for both Most Beautiful and Best New Web App, and for Best New Web App I was all prepared to explain and praise the collaboration between the three Twitterfone partners who spread out design, coding and integration between them. Luckily, that award was scooped by Poll Daddy, and I was saved from having to make a stodgy speech.
For Most Beautiful, though, it was a little more personal as that bit of Twitterfone was sorted out between just myself and Pat, and so when it ended up winning my remarks were, shall we say, less formal. I promised Pat I’d recount the event for him, and so here it is but I don’t have to as Alexia kindly provided video:
Someone later said that if you knew Pat, that little speech invoked him perfectly, so I was glad about that as he really should have been there.
Obviously, nobody expects to actually win these things, and so caught on the trot like everyone else, I forgot to thank all the right people. For Spicendipty, huge amounts of credit go to Katherine Nolan, who I work with on all ecommerce projects because she is the best hacker developer I know of the cart system we’ve been using for more than 10 years and can defy the laws of physics if required. For Twitterfone, the design implementation was done by an internal team at partner Dial2Do, who did a bang up job and in addition to making the damn thing work, also made it look exactly like the screens I sent over, which hardly ever happens.
I was delighted for all of the winners but cheered my head off for Maryrose Lyons and Ken Stanley, who won Most Accessible for Kanchi; Ken McGuire who picked up the podcasting gong for Playlist Mix; for Walter Higgins who spent the rest of the night looking rather dazed to have the Most Innovative gong in his hand; and for Macrus MacInnes, who took home a very well deserved Best Practice award for Pix.ie.
Finally, a huge thanks to all of the sponsors (thanks, Beaut.ie and Intertrade Ireland!), to MC extraordinaire Rick O’Shea, and an especially huge thanks to Damien Mulley, champion of the Irish internet, who organised this massive event like the complete pro he is.
Fab night :)
12 Oct 2008
| In: Awards + Design + Ireland |
[...] all credit goes to Sabrina Dent on this one as the concept was totally hers. In fact she probably explains it better than me. Looks like it was an amazing event and all credit must go to Mr Mulley for [...]
12.10.2008, 6:04 pmCongrats Sabrina !!!
Chat again soon,
12.10.2008, 7:34 pmConor
Congratulations on your win. I intended to come up and say hello after but I had to leave early (turn into a pumpkin after a certain time and all that…). Next time. Well done.
12.10.2008, 8:55 pmWas so proud to be there and share in your moment…SO well deserved and I am beyond thrilled to have the designer of the Most Beautiful Website in Ireland designing MY site!! :D
13.10.2008, 1:09 amHey Sabrina, congrats on both of those.
Great Phelanesque acceptance speech, gave me a good chuckle.
13.10.2008, 7:56 amCongrats !!!
“I fucking love it!” :-)
Great speech. Great work!
Sean
13.10.2008, 10:07 am[...] Website‘ category at the Irish Web Awards on Saturday, I was thrilled. As Sabrina Dent (who took home two trophies !) will testify, I spent the remainder of the evening in a blissful daze. It was a fantastic [...]
13.10.2008, 12:25 pm[...] 13, 2008 · No Comments A quick shout out to Sabrina Dent. She designed the Twitterfone Web Page(s), under eh, difficult circumstances So we were delighted [...]
13.10.2008, 1:09 pmAhh thanks so much, everyone. Very kind of you. Was a bang-up evening, and I was delighted Deb made it and sad that Pat couldn’t be there, but I’m glad Alexia got video for him and that he got a good laugh out of it, too.
Gong is at his house, bottle’s at mine! :)
[...] videos, see how SpunOut made their mark, the master of ceremonies with some unique captures while Sabrina quite enjoyed it too. There’s plenty photos on Pix.ie and Flickr [...]
09.10.2009, 1:46 pm