Website on Sultan Qaboos Wins Two Awards

Sunday, March 8, 2009

A website on Oman’s visionary leader, His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said, won two prestigious awards at the Oman Web Awards 2008.

The website, www.oman-qaboos.net, in its maiden year now, won the special appreciation award and the Gold Award in the personal websites category.

The fourth Oman Web Awards is a member of the Pan Arab Web Awards Committee which oversees and awards the best websites in the Arab region.

The website can be accessed in seven different languages — Arabic, English, Hindi, Korean, Portuguese, Farsi and French. The contents are organised in sections like birth, education, interests, achievements, speeches, photo gallery, national songs in a simple navigable structure.

After the awards the site launched in March 2008, qualifies to enter regional competition at the prestigious Pan Arab Web Awards 2008 to compete with winners from the other Arab countries. Speaking about the award, website designer Hamoud Mohd Alazri stated: “We have managed to fit a range of contents into a simple structure bearing in mind the theme and the hallmark of quality.”

“We are very delighted to achieve this distinction in our maiden attempt and would like to dedicate this award to His Majesty in earnest sincerity,” he said.

The Oman Web Awards, was organised by the SJS Group in association with the Pan Arab Web Awards, to recognise the best Omani websites in various categories.

Courtesy: www.khaleejtimes.com

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