The winner of the first ever Kentico Site of the Year Award is an amazing mix of functionality, usability, beautiful design and bang for your buck, and the fact that the Chicago Zoological Society site topped out both Best Nonprofit Organization Site and Best Graphic Design says a lot for the work of Designkitchen, the group behind it.

It’s very rare that an interactive agency is able to produce work within the typically tight budgets and timeframes that come with Nonprofit Organizations, but even rarer still that the work produced is stunning enough to win design awards.

Congratulations to Designkitchen on a great site, an awesome execution, and on winning the inaugral Kentico Site of the Year.

Park City, located in Summit County, Utah, is an internationally recognized four season destination resort. The Park City Green website helps Park City residents, businesses, and visitors with the aim of lowering the entire community's carbon footprint, by providing a way for users to see how their individual actions contribute to the overall community’s carbon footprint reduction.

The thing I really like about this site is that it looks nothing like what I’d expect coming from any association with a government department. The design is fresh, the typography is modern, light and welcoming and the navigation is slick, really slick. You’d be hard pressed to notice the 1000+ pages of content without bringing up the sitemap, and the user generated content (moderated) sits nicely in amongst the mix, categorised efficiently.