cairns.com.au voted best regional online newspaper of the year!

11Sep08

Ireckon we love designing and building websites that meet, and exceed the needs of the client. We also love helping companies realise their online potential through properly built and executed sites.

For cairns.com.au, their online vision and dedication to building something better has paid off with recognition at the recent Pacific Area Newspaper Publisher’s Association (PANPA) Conference held at the Gold Coast.

The new website, launched on February 2nd 2008, has been judged the regional online newspaper of the year.

Their website not only provides news, but also destination information for visitors to cairns and the local area. Cairns.com.au’s goal was to have a website that reflected the vibrant community that is the Cairns Region.

Powered by Ireckon’s content management system, ARK CMS, cairns.com.au is easy to manage and allows editors and journalists to update the web content as and when the need to easily and effectively.

With online polls and photo galleries and the ability for readers to upload their own photos, comment on news stories or give news tips, the cairns.com.au website is proving a popular online destination for people of the Far North, attracting over one million hits a month.

You can read more about cairns.com.au’s achievement by visiting their website.

Ireckon would like to congratulate cairns.com.au on taking a chance with their new site and allowing us to build them a winning website.