BOSTON, Feb. 20, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- For the fifth consecutive year, the official website of nationally syndicated radio talk show host, travel expert Stephanie Abrams, has captured an award from the League of American Communications Professionals (LACP), taking the Bronze Spotlight 2006 Achievement Award for Best Website. Abrams' website, www.sabrams.com, provides travelers with information audio travel tips, archived audio of, "Travel WITH Stephanie Abrams!" which she hosts weekly on the Business TalkRadio(r) Network, archived shows on which Abrams regularly appears as the Travel Expert, such as Traveling Feet, and other relevant information for travelers and travel professionals. The website has been honored as "excellent and superb" in the areas of design, creativity, the quality of its visual content, narrative content, message clarity, message relevance, and overall first impression, according to evaluation and analysis by the LACP judges.
Abrams is a major contributor and final authority on content on the site, which earned top scores for narrative content, message clarity and message relevance. "Graphics, artistic design and creativity we credit to Persistent Visions (www.persistentvisions.com) which is completely responsible for our scoring fabulously in the categories of Visual Content, Creativity, and First Impression. They project our brand image, message and mission in a functional, well-designed website. They are a very important part of our team," Abrams states.
With over 9,000 pages on the website, www.sabrams.com took 10 out of 10 points in the category Visual Content Quality. "We credit Persistent Visions for that!" Abrams states.
Christine Kennedy, LACP Managing Director, remarks about www.sabrams.com, "Overall we find this work to be superb. The first impression presented by this project is excellent while the narrative and visual design are excellent and superb, respectively. We find the level of creativity exhibited to be excellent, which is supported by excellent message clarity. We congratulate the entire team involved with this year's work."
Abrams' website includes "411" for travelers, an audio library of interviews with global leaders in tourism, a photo gallery of destinations worldwide, news and commentary of interest to travelers. Broadcasts of Travel WITH Stephanie Abrams, heard Sundays weekly coast-to-coast on the Business TalkRadio Network in the 7pm-9pm ET timeslot are also posted. The show streams live online, is iPOD-cast and also airs on the Lifestyle TalkRadio Network. Broadcast information regarding radio and TV programs on which Abrams appears as "guest travel expert" is available on the site.
"I got the site I wanted," Abrams states. "I sat in meetings in the mid-90s being told what can't be done, how unaffordable it would be to implement my ideas, and how no company had enough time or money to create my vision. I was told by highly paid consultants that what I wanted was either impossible or would take 'ten months and cost $10,000,000!' Controlling the direction of my site is unbelievably gratifying. Persistent Visions is responsible for our technical and artistic creativity, understands my vision, has the creative and technical talent to achieve recognized excellence year and year for us, and can deliver a product that positions www.sabrams.com on a list of LACP 2006 Spotlight Award winners that includes such well-known companies as: Kodak, Coldwell Banker, GE Corporate, Raytheon Company, and Toyota Motor Sales USA. Clearly," Abrams concludes, "we are very proud to be in such good company and to prove that if you can imagine it, you can make it happen!"