The Winner

The Femmes Fatales Supergroup won the phpWebSite Awards 2006 with more than 35 % of the votes. While the site had a very good start, the other sites gained votes quickly until the very end of the poll. But why was that site more successful than the others?

Like NeinAffeNein, The Femmes Fatales used a fixed layout. But without the animated gifs. Pure and elegant, limited to pink, black and dark shades of gray while retaining readability with a white, rather smallish font.

Looking at the content

The Femmes Fatales Supergroup is about an online game called "City of Heroes". It specializes on high-level, female characters that have their home site there. Apparently, characters in the City of Heroes go up to Level 50, that would explain the list called The Femme 50's. Other than similar sites, the femme fatales focus on good graphics, a tasteful layout and actual content. For example, there's a couple of Fan Fictions available, that extend the story line of the City of Heroes with backgrounds. Also, if you scroll down on the start page a bit, you'll discover the Femme Fatales 2006 swimsuit calendar, every page showing two of the Femmes Fatales.

Good and Bad

Personally, I like the layout and the colours a lot. It's original, it fits the content (femmes) and it is easy to read. Also, the phpWebSite feature set is used to a big extent here without being too "in your face". You can see the calendar, polls, documents, photoalbums, menus (including the menu sitemap feature), and a list of links. Also, every main category has a different header-image, while still being layout and style compilant.

Which brings us to the bad. Why is the forum not phpWebSite based? The actual forum doesn't look that much different than the kiesler.at Forums, feature-wise. I also find the menu structure confusing. As soon as you click on something, for example "Fan Fiction", the menu structure changes completely.

That said, The Femme Fatales site is definitely a winner. Congratulations!

The concept
The Winner
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