Portland, OR – September 15, 2009 – Leading West Coast interactive and branding firm, the Overland Agency, has been recognized by the Web Marketing Association’s WebAwards with two Standard of Excellence Awards. The Overland-created Dapper Frog ecommerce Website (www.dapperfrog.com) won under the retail category and the Lightspeed Technologies Website (www.lightspeed-tek.com) won under the education category. This is the 4th year in a row that Overland Agency is bringing home certificates from the Web Marketing Association’s WebAwards. Other recent awards for the Overland Agency include platinum, silver, and gold awards from the Interactive Media Awards, Communicator Awards, and W3 Awards for interactive work ranging from websites and Flash-based demos, to a documentary film.

The Dapper Frog, a major online retailer of exceptional home décor and art for the home and office, needed an easy-to-use, intuitive, and search optimized ecommerce website in order to increase user conversion. Overland created the website using the Overland eCommerce Framework and CMS. The clean design highlights a vast array of colorful products.

Lightspeed Technologies, a leading provider of classroom audio solutions, has recently added an effective Overland Agency Flash piece to their homepage, which highlights Lightspeed’s most popular solutions, as well as informative product videos. Overland is also in the process of adding a series of international localized websites to further Lightspeed’s online business model.

About the WebAwards

Now in its 13th year, the Web Awards (www.webaward.org) is the premier annual website award competition that names the best websites in 96 industries, while setting the standard of excellence for all website development.  The Web Marketing Association, which was founded in 1997, is the producer of the competition.

About the Overland Agency

The Overland Agency is an award-winning Portland, Oregon-based digital firm with deep capabilities in branding, user experience design (UXD), creative content generation, online and social media marketing and campaigning, web design and animation, mobile and web applications, web development and engineering. Clients include adidas, ARM, IHS Dolphin Software, the Design Automation Conference, Fila, Lightspeed Technologies, and Mutual of Omaha. The agency also does pro bono work for such groups as the Oregon Council of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.