Web Awards

Our thanks to the judges and webmasters who have visited and ranked many of the websites designed by us:

• Our client, virtuoso jazz violinist Jeremy Cohen, was selected as a Featured Artist of the Day at Smooth-Jazz on the Web and his website, ViolinJazz.com, has also been honored with a VioWorld Award (Germany) for Best Classical Website. This website has won two International Web Page Awards for creative achievement (awarded for outstanding website design and production) as well as a Platinum Web Award, an Internet Excellence Award, a Web Excellence Award, a Golden Web Award and two Duckys:

         
     

• Violin pedagogue Betty Haag's new website, www.BettyHaag.com has just been awarded the 2003-2004 Golden Web Award:

  

• Legendary violin virtuoso Aaron Rosand's home page, www.AaronRosand.com, was highlighted in an article on musicians and the web which ran in The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, and Musical Americain January, 2002. It was also featured in Gramophone Magazine in September, 2001. The site was deemed a Cool Link by CDNow.com in March, 1999, was selected as a Featured Link by SearchBeat.com in September, 1999. Rosand, who is in his seventies, has won a Super Seventies Award for his site. His site has also won the following awards:

  

• The Vox Music Group website, www.VoxCD.com was selected as a Featured Link by Search Beat in September, 1999. In addition, the Vox website has been awarded:

          

• Erick Friedman's website, www.ErickFriedman.com was awarded the Internet Excellence Award, the Critical Mass Award, the Golden Web Award, and the Informative Music Site award:

          

• Elissa Lee Koljonen's website, www.ElissaLeeKoljonen.com was awarded the 2001-2002 Golden Web Award in August, 2001 and the Critical Mass award in November, 2001:

  

• The website of The Terpin Group was awarded both the Golden Web Award and the 42^nd Street Award:

    

• LMSWebdesign, elfenworks' former name, received two International Web Page Awards for creative achievement (awarded for outstanding website design and production) as well as the following awards:

          

• Finally, elfenworks has recently been awarded two Ducky Awards for Music Related Website Excellence:

       

Reviewer Comments

Dear Webmaster .. CONGRATULATIONS .. all 3 of your web sites have been reviewed by the Ducks Deluxe Award Committee and your fine work has earned you the "Best in the World !! Monumental Golden Ducky Award For Music Related Web Site Excellence" ... You have also won the "Screaming Silver Ducky Award" at the same time !! ... for all 3 sites !!!--Dr. Duck, Ducky Awards (for elfenworks.com, aaronrosand.com, and violinjazz.com), November 2004.

I really love your web site. The design and layout, and easy navigation around your site are top notch! --Jim Whalen, Internet Excellence Award (for ViolinJazz site), August 2002.

Your website, and especially your music has won our hearts. After a pleasant visit to your site we've concluded that it deserves to be awarded our Web Excellence Award. In our opinion your site has a special appeal that demands recognition. Great design, content, accessibility, and relevance to the Internet community, were the major factors in our final decision. Statistics indicate that Web Excellence Award is presented to less than 1% of all reviewed websites. --Web Excellence Award (for ViolinJazz site), August 2002.

The "look and feel" of your site is excellent. --Jim Whalen, Internet Excellence Award (for Friedman site), March 2002.

After reviewing your site http://www.erickfriedman.com/, I am proud to announce that it will be placed in December's Top 100 listings on our site. The site is fast loading and artistic. The design is clean and very productive. Thank you for your submission, it was a pleasure reviewing your site! --Justin Wernisch, Golden Web Award (for Friedman site), December 2001.

"Well done ! Your site loads fast and is very informative. Your excellent design allows easy navagation and the graphic layout is pleasing to view. You have also made good use of cutting edge design elements on your page and have offered your visitors a useful, productive experence. Please accept the "Critical Mass" award as a small token of appreciation for a worthy addition to the Web. --Bill Darling, Critical Mass Award (for Friedman site), November 2001.

"An exceptionally nice site, excellent design, beautiful original graphics, great photos, and you provide your visitors with content that is informative, entertaining, presented well and easy to access. A worthy tribute and a positive contribution to the Web. Thanks for helping make the Web a more interesting, fun and attractive place to visit. I really enjoyed my visit to your site and will return again when time permits :) " --Bill Darling, Critical Mass Award (for Koljonen site), November 2001.

"The layout, design and content of your site have a clean aesthetic quality that emits an air of artistry and style. The colors are appealing and complement your images. Navigation is excellent and straight forward, graphics and titling are attractive. Your html code was good." --June Kaminski, Pegasus Award (for Rosand site),  August 2000.

"Excellent designs, clever original graphics, and your content is informative, entertaining, presented well and easy to access. Worthy enterprises and positive contributions to the Web. Thanks for helping make the Web a more interesting, fun and attractive place to visit." --Bill Darling, Critical Mass Award (for Rosand site), February 2000.

"Great sites and keep up the hard work." --Millenium Design, January 2000.

"Your site is excellent!" --Artpro Web Design, December 1999.