.net awards 2013

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This category celebrates something that really helped the industry and the community move forward. It can be a new web design tool, a GitHub project, an outstanding article that kicked off an important discussion, etc.

Winner:

Typecast

Typecast enables you to create better web typography in the browser. Director Paul McKeever once said the service "blows Photoshop out of the water" when it comes to working with fonts.

Runners up: CodePen, Node.js

Best New Web Technology

This award recognises a company's or an individual's contribution to making the web work better.

Winner:

CSS Flexible Box Layout

After years of supporting drop shadows and rounded corners, browsers have now started to implement the CSS Flexible Box Layout Module. Flexbox promises to provide us with much-needed relief for common layout problems, and you guys clearly love it.

Runners up: Firefox OS, WebRTC

Open Source Project of the Year

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The best new open source project. It's as simple as that.

Winner:

Bootstrap

Sleek, intuitive, and powerful front-end framework for faster and easier web development. It helps nerds do awesome stuff.

Runners up: Brackets, Firefox OS

Best Online Portfolio

This award honours the best online portfolio (standalone site or using platforms like Behance, Cargo or Dribbble) by a designer or developer.

Winner:

Stephen Burgess

Stephen is an English developer based in San Francisco who specialises in HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Our judges were blown away by the colourful, striking design of minimalmonkey.com. 

Runners up: Marisa Passos, Shane Prendergast

Side Project of the Year

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We love side projects! This award honours a pet project which was noted by the community and maybe even turned into a money-making business.

Winner:

Am I Responsive

Justin Avery, who also runs the Responsive Design Newsletter, found that he took a lot of screenshots of device breakpoints, so he built this time-saving tool which previews your design across desktop, laptop, tablet and mobile.

Runners up: Sidebar, A Student's Guide to Web Design

New Entrepreneur of the Year

This award is for a new entrepreneur who had a great business idea that's made an impact on the industry. There is no age restriction.

Winner:

Clare Sutcliffe

Clare is a web designer from London who last year launched Code Club together with Linda Sandvik. Code Club, also nominated in Game Changer of the Year, is a nationwide network of volunteer-led after-school coding clubs for nine-to eleven year olds. There are now over 750 clubs around the country. Amazing!

Runners up: Jared Erondu, Mandy Brown

Brilliant Newcomer of the Year

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This award honours the shooting stars in web design or development who have excelled in their given field over the last 12 months. There is no age restriction.

Winner:

Laura Kalbag

Laura hails from Brighton and specialises in design for the web and mobile. She's known for her passion, enthusiasm and commitment to great design, and she's made some great contributions to the community this year.

Runners up: Dan Eden, Josh Long, Angelina Fabbro

Young Developer of the Year

Winner:

Anna Debenham

Anna is a freelance frontend developer based in Brighton. She has done some amazing research on the browsers in game consoles, and co-hosts Unfinished Business, a weekly podcast about the business end of the web.

Runners up: Anthony Colangelo, Harry Roberts, Sindre Sorhus

Young Designer of the Year

Dan is a web designer from the South Coast of the UK. Dan cares about every pixel and immerses himself in each project. Recent work includes the branding and site design for Altitude, a Q&A Night he co-organised. He also designed an email client in just two hours, just because he wanted to.

Runners up: Rita DeRaedt, Tyler Galpin, Kyle Turman

Best New Agency