Cyprus Consulting Duo Takes Home an Award from World’s Largest Internet Consulting Firm

Internet Consultants Allan and Tina Winning produce winning Best Industry Application site for 2007 WSI Web Awards

October 16, 2007 – Larnaca, Cyprus. Allan and Tina Winning, certified Internet Consultants with WSI (We Simplify the Internet) have been honored at the second annual WSI Web Awards at WSI’s Excellence and Innovation Conference in Orlando, Florida. Allan and Tina were responsible for developing the winning website in the category of Best Industry Application for the 2007 Web Awards, www.pafilia.com.

The Best Industry Application award was presented to Allan and Tina and the WSI e-Marketplace Production Center, GTO. This fresh and vibrant website showcases Pafilia Property Developers' experience in the Cypriot housing market. Pafilia remains at the forefront of the property industry, dealing with all aspects of property development. This creative website truly allows visitors to discover Cyprus through Pafilia.

Tina Winning stated, “Here at WSI in Larnaca we are delighted and very proud to have won the Best Industry Application award for www.pafilia.com. This project was the culmination of many months of hard work on the part of us, the Consultants, and our development team. Being part of the WSI global brand has meant we have had unprecedented resources at our disposal and are able to offer leading edge solutions in a very competitive marketplace, which is of particular benefit to our clients.”

Serving businesses throughout Cyrpus, Allan and Tina are helping local businesses develop an effective online presence by providing leading edge, robust, scalable and affordable Internet solutions. They assess clients’ business needs and opportunities by using WSI’s patent pending Internet Solutions Lifecycle™ System, an Internet solutions delivery framework. The client’s Internet Solution is then customized through personal consultation on design, functionality, hosting options, online traffic optimization, site registration and Internet marketing support - to both reduce business overhead and increase the customer’s return on investment. A WSI solution is designed to draw qualified traffic to a website leading to more customer conversions online.

The new www.pafilia.com site, which features pleasant colors and bright images emphasizing the beauty of Cyrpus, is an exceptional example of industry-specific knowledge and experience, demonstrating best practices in the real estate industry vertical.

John Z. Theophanous, Web administrator for Pafilia Property Developers said , “WSI has transformed our dull previous website into an absolute work of functional art. As is apparent, the work that has gone into designing a website of this magnitude is phenomenal. The programming behind the scenes is excellent and very transparent to the user. The development was done with great efficiency using the best technology available. The programming was completed in an advanced environment with the emphasis on scalability, upgradeability, and stability. Well done WSI for a task well completed.”

WSI introduced the WSI Web Awards to showcase the very best of thousands of the Internet solutions created each year by WSI Consultants in their local markets around the world. Several hundred sites were submitted by Consultants to be considered for the 2007 WSI Web Awards. Each site was scored and ranked by a team of WSI site auditors, who created a short list of the top sites, resulting in 38 nominations. Sites were then voted on by the global community of 1500 plus WSI Consultants to determine the winners of the 6 categories, including Best Industry Application, Best Product Showcase, Creative Excellence, Best Non-English Site, Best Business Edge Site and Best Overall Website.

About WSI:

Through its network of over 1500 offices in 87 countries, WSI delivers thousands of e-Business solutions to small and medium sized businesses annually. Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, WSI provides affordable Internet related services and technologies that deliver maximum return on investment for businesses. As the world leader in providing profitable Internet solutions to SMEs, making information accessible for all via the Internet is an essential component of our offering.