The Gameplanet Store team attended the tenth annual NetGuide Web Awards last night and I’m very pleased to announce that we won the award for “Best Online Shopping Site” for the third time in four years (Trade Me was apparently a Shopping site as well as an Auction site one year, so we were upset about that one).

Obviously we’re very proud of the achievement and we owe a huge thanks to all of the customers (and GP forumers!) who voted for us.

Our friends at Gameplanet picked up the award for the Best Games-Related Site, whilst Zillion was once again a finalist in the Trade Me Best Trading Site Category. happysheep was also a deserving finalist for Best New Site.

Update: NetGuide has published some photos, so for your viewing pleasure (or not?):

Simon & I accept the award for “Best Online Shopping Site”

Big grin.

Dan & Simon from Gameplanet accept the award for “Best Gaming Site”

This is one of the most uselessly clever things I’ve seen lately: Homer Simpson rendered entirely with CSS.

As it turns out the blog theme I was using wasn’t compatible with the latest version of WordPress, which I upgraded this site to last night. I spent half an hour or so looking around for a good theme but there’s a real lack; it seems that most wannabe theme creators are only in it for the resulting Google traffic as most themes are seriously poor, even those from “designers” who publish a dozen themes on their own dedicated site.

Then I stumbled upon this one which is a decent blend of colour and simplicity. I’ve simplified it further for my cause and plan to tweak it a bit more still.

It’s the winner until I happen to see something better!