The fourth edition of the CMS Awards has again been very successful for SDL Tridion customers. Customers Fedict, Provincie Vlaams Brabant, Tessenderlo Group, De Lijn and Belcolade running on the Content Management System of SDL Tridion were rewarded nine awards in five out of six categories.

Each year the CMS Awards are presented to the best European Websites that run on a user friendly content management system. CMS Channel, together with a neutral and professional jury, evaluates websites in six categories; best design/layout, best content, best search engine optimalization, best navigation/structure, best Web 2.0 and government.

Category winners are selected through either public or expert voting systems. This year, the public votes cast reached almost 6000, registered through a special CMS-awards website.

Category winners are selected through either public or expert voting systems. This year, the public votes cast reached almost 6000, registered through a special CMS-awards website. The expert jury consists of Christian Daems and Karine Blommaert from CMS Channel, Sigrid Vandenweghe from the Human Interface Group, Bart Nelis, Internet and new media expert with de Vlaamse Overheid, Robin Wauters, editor TechCrunch, Bert Van Herreweghe, FOD Kanselarij van de Eerste Minister and Lieven Raes, Advisor Geo Information and Projects Vlaamse Overheid.

Services for ICT (Fedict) is the big overall winner in the category Navigation and winner of Silver in the category Government. In this category for Government Provincie Vlaams Brabant was awarded Gold.

The experts awarded the recently launched website of Tessenderlo Group third price for Design. De Lijn won Silver for their website in the category Government (shared position with Belgium.be).

The public voted Belgium.be overall winner in the category Government. In the category Content Provincie Vlaams Brabant was awarded first price. De Lijn took Silver in the category Government and Belcolade won bronze for Best SEO.

Since the first edition of the CMS Awards four years ago, SDL Tridion customers have collected an impressive number of prizes from each category. Last year, SDL Tridion won several Golden, Silver and Bronze awards in various categories. In 2006 the independent jury of experts and the public agreed: the website provant.be of SDL Tridion customer Provincie Antwerpen was “the best Belgian Web site powered by a content management system.” The year before, this honor was presented to SDL Tridion customer Brussels Airlines.