TAMPA, FL, April 2011 — The Interactive Media Awards (IMA) recognizes Bayshore Solutions with an Outstanding Achievement award in the Arts/Culture category for David A Straz, Jr. Center website. Of the 63 websites submitted in the Arts/Culture category, only 8 were chosen for Outstanding Achievement. The IMA award recognizes excellence and great accomplishment in professional website design, content, feature functionality, usability, standards compliance and cross-browser compatibility for the Straz Center website.

The Straz Center website was awarded previously with a Summit Emerging Media Innovator award in the Leisure and Entertainment category. The Summit EMA competition seeks to promote advertising that is consistently at the forefront of technological evolution in communication.

Local search engine marketing company and Web design firm Bayshore Solutions worked to design a website reflective of the organization’s goals delivering an Internet presence consistent with their overall brand, giving users efficient access to well-organized information and increasing conversions while acting as a functional platform to improve communication with all types of site visitors.  

Applying our expertise in the art and science of Web design and Web Development for this creative organization was inspiring,” said Kevin Hourigan, President and CEO of Bayshore Solutions. “We were pleased to deliver Web solutions that brought solid business results to drive the ongoing success of the David A Straz, Jr. Center. The IMA’s recognition with this honor is a wonderful encore to this work.”

The Straz Center (http://www.StrazCenter.org) began as a dream by visionary citizens of Tampa who brought to reality one of the finest performing arts centers in the nation. The center is many things to many people and is seen as more than just a performing arts center building — it is a presenter, a producer, an educator, a community partner and an economic engine for the Tampa Bay area.

Local search engine marketing company Bayshore Solutions offers award-winning capabilities in Web design, Web development and interactive marketing. The Tampa Web site design company has delivered custom Web applications to over 1,500 clients in 54 countries. Bayshore Solutions was founded in 1996 and has delivered Web marketing strategies, professional website design and development services throughout the USA and internationally with physical offices accessible to Tampa, Orlando, Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Dade County, and Broward County in Florida.