I was lucky enough to attend the .net award ceremony this year. Boagworld was again shortlisted for podcast of the year, for which we won, and that nice man Paul asked me to collect the award as he was hosting the event.

It was a glitzy affair (I had to wear a suit!) held at the Altitude 360 which is on the 29th floor of Millbank Tower in London. The views are astounding!

The view from Altitude 360

Boagworld won podcast of the year for the second year in a row which is fantastic. We were up against CreativeXpert and Freelance Radio which are great podcasts and well worth a listen to.

Podcast of the Year - Boagworld

Other awards went to:

Design agency of the year: ClearLeft
Web application of the year: Dropbox
Viral campaign of the year: Best Job in the World by Nitro
Best community site: Twitter
Open source application of the year: jQuery
Redesign of the year: whitehouse.gov
Innovation of the year: Google Chrome
Interactive site of the year: Nvidia Speak Visual by Odopod and Cutwater
Standards Champion: Jeffery Zeldman
Blog of the year: Smashing Magazine
Best API use: TweetDeck
Web personality of the year: Stephen Fry
Infamy award: IE6
Vodcast of the year: Diggnation

Congratulations to everyone who won.

A definite highlight of the evening was Stephen Frys acceptance video for his award!

Was also awesome to catch up/finally meet: Dan Oliver, Tom May, Oliver Lindberg, Richard Rutter, Andy Budd, Jeremy Keith, Natalie Downe, Sarah Parmenter, Sam Brown, Elliot Jay Stocks, Jason Cale, Cath Boag, Paul Boag, Ian Forrester, Natalie Jahangiry, Simon Campell, Simon Collison and Jamie Pittock.

Congratulations to the .net team for throwing such a successful event. Maybe I could be nominated for Vodcast of the year next year? *wink wink*

Also thanks for the goody bag!

.net Awards Goody Bag

About a month ago I blogged to let you guys know that I had written my first tutorial for .net magazine explaining how I achieved the fading effect on the navigation of this very website. Now that that issue has come off the shelves I can re-post the article hear for those of you who missed it…

And here it is:

Click the tutorial to link through to my Flickr account were you can view a larger version of the tutorial...

View a larger version of the tutorial

I hope you find it useful. I’ve had some great feedback so far and would love to know what you think of the technique so leave a comment! :-)

This months issue of .net magazine features a tutorial that I have written on how to achieve the fading navigation effect I use on this very website.

Since the launch of Havoc Inspired v3 I’ve had a lot of people asking me how it is done however Dan Oliver (Editor of .net Magazine) beat you all too it and asked me to write the 3-page tutorial for their August issue.

.net Magazine Issue 193

I really enjoyed the experience of writing for .net. The guys do an awesome job with the magazine every month and if my tutorial isn’t reason enough for you to go buy a copy there’s also a great feature by Elliot Jay Stocks entitled “Become a one man web agency”, a Q&A with Khoi Vinh from NYTimes.com, an interview with Irene Au from Google and lots more!

I’ve also been told that I can release the tutorial myself once the issue comes off the shelves so for those of you who can’t get .net, keep an eye out for that in about a month.