The Perth Fes­ti­val web site is a nom­i­nee in the events cat­e­gory of the 11th Annual Webby Awards.

The 2007 Perth Inter­na­tional Arts Fes­ti­val web site has been nom­i­nated for a Webby Award. As part of the awards pro­gramme, the site is also up for a Webby People’s Voice award, nom­i­nated by mem­bers of the pub­lic. You can help us win by sign­ing up to vote in the Web­sites > Liv­ing > Events cat­e­gory — but be quick, vot­ing closes this Fri­day, the 27th of April.

So, why do I think you should vote for us? Well, the Fes­ti­val site has been my pet project for the past 5 years, and I love it to death! But apart from that, it’s a site that has been built with love and care, and most impor­tantly, lots of web stan­dards. I won’t say that every page def­i­nitely val­i­dates with­out warn­ings — but the tem­plates and struc­ture are all sound. Which is more than can be said about the other sites in the same cat­e­gory — while they all look great, two are com­pletely Flash based and the other two use lay­out tables and much crufty, dep­re­cated markup. Ewww!

I was lucky enough to work with a very tal­ented bunch of peo­ple to pull the 2007 Perth Inter­na­tional Arts Fes­ti­val web site together — espe­cially Isabel at Block Brand­ing, who did the gor­geous design, Ben Kroll, who coded the “My Fes­ti­val Plan­ner”, both CF/Fusebox back end and Ajax-enhanced front end, and Geor­gia Mal­one from the Fes­ti­val (now at PICA) who man­aged all the con­tent and drove the mar­ket­ing efforts. In 2006, Geor­gia stamped her foot and said “I want to win a Webby!” She then set about mak­ing sure that the 2007 Fes­ti­val web site was amaz­ing in every last detail — and this nom­i­na­tion shows that she was right on track.

So get vot­ing, and remem­ber — a vote for the Fes­ti­val is a vote for web standards!