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Green Cross Australia's website, Harden Up - Protecting Queensland, has been honoured with an Outstanding Achievement award at the 2012 Interactive Media Awards. Green Cross Australia, along with our web developers ZeroSeven, won the award in the "Advocacy" category.

Harden Up - Protecting Queensland is a website developed by people who are passionate about community safety and weather awareness. The website is designed to help Queenslanders understand the history of severe weather in their own suburb and across the state.

Harden Up has an easy to use interactive tool that allows Queenslanders to tailor make a preparedness plan to suit their individual needs. Parameters such as weather hazards faced, house occupants and dwelling type are used to create a series of practical steps to prepare people, homes and communites for extreme weather events.

About the award

The New York Based Interactive Media Awards™ recognize the highest standards of excellence in website design and development and honor individuals and organizations for their outstanding achievement.

The Outstanding Achievement award is the second highest honour bestowed by IMA and an extremely challenging award to win. The website has excelled in all areas of our judging criteria and represents a very high standard of planning, execution and overall professionalism.

The scores for the site were as follows:
Design: 97
Content: 96
Feature Functionality: 98
Usability: 91
Standards Compliance & Cross-Browser Compatibility: 94
Total: 476