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We’re very happy to announce that we’ve won the prestigious Professional Photographer Hot One 2010 Award. These awards represent photography’s best new products for professional application, as chosen by a panel of professional photographers. The Viewbook Pro Website Account swept past its competitors in the online album design and hosting category.

For the past 11 years, the Hot One Awards have provided Professional Photographer magazine’s readership with a resource of the newest, most innovative products. The panel of 52 judges – independent, practicing professional photographers selected for their expertise and knowledge – know what to look for in professional products. Their selection was based on overall quality, innovation, design, performance, and value for the price.

Viewbook.com stands out from the many static template website solutions available today because of its sophisticated design, flexibility and complete feature set. Look for the special Hot One Awards article, detailing the Viewbook.com Pro Account and the other winning products, in the February 2010 issue of Professional Photographer and online at www.ppmag.com/hotones_10

The social news release to spread the word is on http://pitch.pe/51397

“I just started to play with Viewbook and I think it’s really great, love it. I was looking for something as simple, friendly and beautiful like this.” – Monica Ruzansky

“You brothers are doing a great job. You free us from beeing confined and limited by thinking in grafik designer terms and having constant discussions with the design departement – I can breathe free ” – Urs

“Very impressed by the elegant layout and beautiful interface used to organize and create the albums and pages.” – Joseph Roth

“I am totally loving the back-end of the site, and how simple + easy it is to use, and move images around.”  - Michelle Moore

“Great job on Viewbook. Nice to see some competent webpage architecture available to creatives nowadays that is more than merely good looks.” – El Jack Images

“I want to compliment you with the level of support! It is really above all expectations.” – Noel Roets

“I’ve been so pleased with Viewbook that I bought a subscription already, even though I have three weeks left on my free trial.” – Steve Diamond

“Thanks guys for creating an affordable and extremely user friendly web 
option for photographers and artists. I purchased a livebooks site 
last year for over $1800 and I wish I found viewbook sooner. Could of 
saved a bunch of $$$$. Thanks again.” – Joey Wehner

“I have been so impressed with the service you have provided and continually update. Your customer service is quick and efficient, updates are exciting and very much worthwhile, and now to be featured… Wow! I am very pleased to be a member of Viewbook.” – David Engle

“I’m incredibly impressed with the Viewbook structure and how customizable it is. Its exactly representative of how I wanted my website to look. Love it! – Garet

“I have fallen in love with viewbook and it’s usability” – Belinda Louann

Recently we’ve released the new websites features and we’re very joyous to see that you’ve created such great designs. It’s very nice to see the variety and creative solutions you’ve implemented. Thanks a lot for making Viewbook look so good. In the next few days we’ll release new tutorials and demo videos so you can learn how to implement your website in Viewbook. Check our example page to see all the websites live.

“You guys have a great product, keep up the excellent work.” – Peter Ciccariello

“Let me say that I continue to be overjoyed with viewbook – it is simply incredible and ultimately made it so amazingly easy to post my work in such a professional and classy way that I am indebted to you guys!” – Andrea zeluck

“Thanks for a beautiful, elegant solution. I’ll definitely keep recommending viewbook to my network.” – rdmoreno

“Thanks for the first-class site you provide.” – Gary Ortman

“I definitely love your site and the functionality. Keep up the great work. And thanks, for such great customer service. ” – wordgal

“When it comes down to it its all about the art, and viewbook enables me to share more art with more people. Its fast clean and simple, Now i can focus on the pixles and let viewbook take care of the presentation.” – Andrew Jones

“Viewbook gives me both a new portfolio site and a great tool. It makes me spent less time organizing which means more time to work.” Jonathan’s work mainly sets up in portrait and landscape photography. He grew up in an art collectors family, surrounded by contemporary photography hanging on each and every wall.

Read more about how Jonathan uses Viewbook.

VisionWorkshops is the creative force behind a series of highly effective photography workshops for youth from underserved communities worldwide. VisionWorkshops uses Viewbook to present their photography projects online. We saw what they did and decided to sponsor them with Viewbook Pro. Its great to see what they do and we believe they have a very powerful concept.

“Our mission is to provide innovative, dynamic, educational and life changing experiences for youth, using the tools of photojournalism. Our goals are to give young people a voice, challenging them to see themselves and their communities in a new light; to encourage them to explore their world through the lens of a camera; and to share their perspectives with others through the publication and exhibition of their work.

VisionWorkshops provides programs free of charge to our students, through generous donations from the community and from corporate sponsors. Our workshops inspire youth with positive role models and with opportunities to display their photographs and writings at galleries such as New York’s International Center of Photography, Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts, and National Geographic Headquarters in Washington D.C. The end result of each workshop is a group of enthusiastic kids and adults, each gaining new insights through the mentoring experience and the power of photography.

www.visionworkshops.org

“Thank you for your site. It is simply perfect for someone like me who wants to spend less time on the internet trying to manage and market my work and more time creating it! Seriously, you rock.” –Dan Kutler

This is what makes us happy. Thanks Dan!