The 3rd Philippine Web Awards was held on November 25, 2000 at the New World Hotel in Makati, Philippines.
The awards is created and organized by THE WEB Philippines (a bi-monthly publication of WS Computer Publishing Corporation, Philippine licensee of the International Data Group IDG).
Best Web Sites awards
Category
Site Name
URL
Arts
Little Rocket
http://www.binarysoup.com/rocket
Banking and Finance
iDS Finance
http://www.idsfinance.com
Cause Oriented
Haribon Foundation
http://www.haribon.org.ph
Celebrities & Personalities
ABS-CBN
http://www.abs-cbn.com
Commerce
Voodoo Cycles
http://www.voodoo-cycles.com
Community
Candymag.com
http://www.candymag.com
Corporate
GMA Network
http://www.gmanetwork.com
Education
Recto.net
http://www.recto.net
Games
NBA Live Gokscup
http://gokscup.tripod.com
Government
Nat’l. Mapping and Resource Information Authority
http://www.namria.gov.ph
Home & Living
HerbVigor.com
http://www.herbvigor.com
Music
PhilMusic.com
http://www.philmusic.com
News & Zines
Candymag.com
http://www.candymag.com
Non-Profit Organizations
UP Mountaineers
http://www.upmountaineers.com.ph
Personal
My Web
http://www.vw-online.com/myweb
Services
Click the City
http://www.clickthecity.com
Sports
Easy Pool Tutor
hhttp://www.easypooltutor.com
Travel
Click the City
http://www.clickthecity.com
Weird
Pol’s Page
http://www.pmjunior.com.ph
People’s Choice
Category
Site Name
URL
Arts
Hiraya Gallery
http://www.hiraya.com
Banking and Finance
Unionbankph.com
http://www.unionbankph.com
Cause Oriented
ABS-CBN Foundation
http://www.abs-cbn.com/foundation
Celebrities & Personalities
ABS-CBN
http://www.abs-cbn.com
Commerce
Glorietta5
http://www.glorietta5.com
Community
Pinoy Central
http://www.pinoycentral.com
Corporate
Ayala Center
http://www.ayalacenter.com.ph
Education
Informatics Computer Institute
http://www.informatics.edu.ph
Games
Novelty Entertainment
http://www.novelty.com.ph
Government
PhilCongress.com
http://www.philcongress.com
Home & Living
FemaleNetwork.com
http://www.femalenetwork.com
Music
PhilMusic.com
http://www.philmusic.com
News & Zines
ABS-CBN News
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com
Non-Profit Organizations
Philwap.org
http://www.philwap.org
Personal
LuvKoSiInday.com
http://www.indayworks.com
Services
Pinoy Central
http://www.pinoycentral.com
Sports
The Official 2000 UAAP Website
hhttp://uaap.pinoycentral.com
Travel
Lakbay.net
http://www.lakbay.net.ph
Weird
PLDT.com
http://www.pldt.com
Special Awards
Category
Site Name
URL
Ericsson Mobile Internet Award
Click the City
http://www.clickthecity.com
Unionbankph.com Best Portal of the Year
Adobo.com
http://www.unionbankph.com
Yehey! Most Popular Site of the Year
Chismis.ph
http://www.Chismis.ph
Internet Man of the Year – Sen. Ramon Magsaysay Jr. FOR his untiring efforts to get the Electronic Commerce Act signed into law, Senator Ramon 8. Magsaysay Jr. has been chosen as the 3rd Philippine Web Awards’ Internet Man of the Year.
Compared to the 1999 Philippine Web Awards which had five additional special website awards, the 2000 Philippine Web awards only has three, two which were also entirely new categories — ‘Ericsson Mobile Internet Award’ which was given to popular Philippine portal ClickTheCity.com, ‘UnionBank’s Best Portal of the Year’ which was awarded to Adobo.com. The ‘Yehey! Most Popular Site of the Year’ went to (as expected), ‘Chismis.ph‘. A non-website award ‘Internet Man of the Year‘ was given to Sen. Ramon Magsaysay Jr.
Photo credits: Grabbed from Benj Arriola’s website
Far left: Inday (Cheryl Fuerte), and far right Benj Arriola of Action Online. Photo credits: Grabbed from Inday’s websiteTrophies of the 3rd Philippine Web Awards
The rise of the new
The 3rd Philippine Web Awards was even participated by more companies and individuals. New to this year’s awards are popular website portals in the Philippines during that time, such as ClickTheCity.com, FemaleNetwork.com, Chismis.ph, and Adobo.com. Big award newcomers such as GMA Network, Ayala Center / Glorietta, and Philippine Congress websites participated (and won) for the first time. Organizations such as the UAAP and PhilWAP also participated for the first time (and won). Clickthecity.com bagged 3 awards this night.
The rise of the new websites that participated in this year’s awards reflected the rise of the Internet scene in the Philippines.
Old but still here – repeat winners from previous years
PhilMusic.com
Repeat winners from the previous year’s web awards like ABS-CBN (which won four awards that night – their ABS-CBN News website, their ABS-CBN Foundation, their ABS-CBN Main site with 2 awards), Lakbay.net, Candymag, PLDT.com, UP Mountaineers, Jim Ayson’s PhilMusic.com, Informatics, Inday’s (Cheryl Fuerte’s) LuvKoSiInday.com were also present in the 2000 Philippine Web Awards and they all have won again.
PhilMusic.com by Jim Ayson won again the ‘Best Website – Music’ category, 3rd year in a row. It has held the throne of the Best Music Website category and no one has defeated it so far. PLDT.com, still up despite the controversy surrounding it, won again with a People’s Choice award under the ‘Weird’ category. Web designer Ninoy Leyran’s UP Mountaineers has won again, in the Non-Profit category for Best Website.
Webmaster Inday (Cheryl Fuerte) at the 2000 Web Awards
Popular Sites that got the People’s Choice Awards
Rising from its defeat in 1999 awards, ABS-CBN grabbed People’s Choice Awards for three of their websites (PinoyCentral, ABS-CBN, and ABS-CBN Foundation) for the Services, Personalities/Celebrities, and Cause-Oriented categories.
Consistently popular sites on their respective categories– Jim Ayson’s PhilMusic.com, Inday’s (Cheryl Fuerte) LuvKoSiInday (Indayworks.com), Lakbay.net, Hiraya Gallery and FemaleNetwork.com won a People’s Choice award in the Music, Personal Websites, Travel, Arts, and Home and Living categories.
Perennial popular site PLDT.com won again under the Weird category.
Scanned copy / archive of Post-event advertisements:
Photo credits: Grabbed from Inday’s websitePhoto credits: Grabbed from Inday’s website
