The 7th Annual Webby Awards were held in San Francisco, California on June 5, 2003. Due to budget cutbacks made in response to the 2002 Internet bubble, the decision was made to hold this year's ceremony partially online. This would be the last year that the Webbys would be presented in California prior to their relocation in New York City.[1] For this award ceremony, the business category was expanded with the addition of a new award for "Best Online Businesses."[2] This award would be presented for "sites that excel at achieving fundamental business goals such as increasing sales lead generation or enhancing customer loyalty and retention, marketplace impact and innovation."[3]
(from http://www.webbyawards.com/winners/2003)
| Category | Winner | People's Voice winner | Other nominees | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Activism | ActForChange | Greenpeace | The Jane Goodall Institute | |
| voice yourself | ||||
| World Resources Institute | ||||
| Best Practices | Movable Type | Wired News | Commanding Heights Online | |
| edutopia online | ||||
| Theban Mapping Project | ||||
| Broadband | CBC Radio 3 | N/A | BET Hollagram | |
| Commanding Heights Online | ||||
| Heavy | ||||
| Homeless | ||||
| Games | Orisinal (Archived 9 June 2003 via Wayback) | Swirve.com (Archived 31 May 2003 via Wayback) | A Tale in the Desert (Archived 3 June 2003 via Wayback) | |
| Disney's Toontown Online (Archived 7 June 2003 via Wayback) | ||||
| Indie Game Jam (Archived 4 June 2003 via Wayback) | ||||
| PopCap Games (Archived 9 June 2003 via Wayback) | ||||
| Humor | get your war on | The Onion | Eric Conveys an Emotion | |
| oddtodd.com | ||||
| WHITEHOUSE.ORG | ||||
| NetArt | Listening Post | Penny Arcade | Andy Deck-Art Context | |
| BlinkenLights | ||||
| NYC Surveillance Camera Players | ||||
| PuppetTool | ||||
| Sports | ESPN.com | NBA.com | ||
| Surfline | ||||
| The Official Site of The America's Cup | ||||
| Tour de France - 2002 | ||||
| This table is not complete, please help to complete it from material on this page. | ||||
Winners and nominees are generally named according to the organization or website winning the award, although the recipient is, technically, the web design firm or internal department that created the winning site and in the case of corporate websites, the designer's client. Web links are provided for informational purposes, both in the most recently available archive.org version before the awards ceremony and, where available, the current website. Many older websites no longer exist, are redirected, or have been substantially redesigned.