The Interactive Media Awards recognize the highest standards of excellence in website design and development and honor individuals and organizations for their outstanding achievement. Sponsored by the Interactive Media Council, Inc., a nonprofit organization of leading web designers, developers, programmers, advertisers and other web-related professionals, the competition seeks to elevate the standards of excellence on the Internet.

Bayshore Solutions website for The Melting Pot Restaurants achieved Best in Class honors for excellence in the design, development and implementation of http://www.MeltingPot.com.

This distinction by the Interactive Media Awards recognizes that the project met and surpassed the standards of excellence that comprise the Web's most professional work. The judging consisted of criteria including: design, usability, innovation in technical features, standards compliance and content. In order to win this award level, the site had to meet strict guidelines in each area - an achievement only a fraction of sites in the IMA competition earn each year.

The Melting Pot Restaurants wanted a new website that would take their Web presence to the next level and cater to their 142 locations in North America for restaurant goers with a special emphasis on special occasion dining.

Bayshore Solutions designed a guest friendly website that is easy to navigate and visually appealing while accomplishing a goal of educating their guests and increasing consumer awareness and making it easy to choose, locate and reserve a table for dining at any nationwide Melting Pot restaurant location.

The site has a custom Google maps integration and display which uses client side JavaScript to geo-code location searches. The Mobile site design with location finder uses the phone’s GPS or browser’s location functionality when available, then reformats location level content and presents it on the mobile device. Integration with a third-party gift card balance checker is another feature of the site functionality.

The website, and its “Fondue Fanatics” social networking portal, was developed with guests and franchisees in mind using a content management system and an eCommerce system.

Now all 142 locations have a secure administration area (via the content management system) to manage location-specific content. It includes a custom Franchise portal which allows their location owners to update and manage content for their location pages under the layout approved by corporate.

Bayshore Solutions was awarded for Outstanding Achievement and excellence in the design, development and implementation of the Advanced Healthcare Partners Website, http://www.AdvancedHealthcarePartners.com.

The Outstanding Achievement award is the second highest honor bestowed by IMA and an extremely challenging award to win. AHP’s website has excelled in all areas of judging criteria and represents a very high standard of planning, execution and overall professionalism.

Advanced Healthcare Partners came to Bayshore Solutions to assist with the design and development of a website for their newly formed company. Advanced Healthcare Partners is a consulting firm that created a highly effective and successful strategic business platform for Laser Spine Institute. AHP applies this scalable methodology to healthcare businesses and partners with them to achieve dramatic improvements in service delivery and business results.

AHP’s new web presence is designed to allow the cutting-edge healthcare management and consulting company the ability to share strategy and gain new visitors online.

In the design strategy for the new custom website, Bayshore Solutions incorporated a slideshow module to the homepage that explains the AHP business healthcare models, while on the administrative side, Bayshore Solutions website content management system, WebModules, was integrated with the site. This feature enables the Advanced Healthcare Partners team to readily manage their website content including latest news, images and recent partners.