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1) *No improper content
such as: racism, porn, religious cults, animal or child abuse.
2) No links only sites!
Have something to say on your own!
3) All Original
content, or at least something creative from non-original materiel.
4) Pages must be short, i.e.: very
little scrolling. Some pages are so long, I expect to strike oil. No more then the page down
keyed 3 times is acceptable.
5) No misspellings
or broken internal links (I realize that we have little or no control over external links)
6) We are benevolent when it comes to
load time. On occasion routing and server traffic can hinder our web sites. When we find our
wait was in vane, and we discover our long wait yielded goofy, useless graphics such as; ad banners, midis, web
ring logos, made with Macintosh or anything else that is entirely useless! Then we will have a fat lady sing a
song for you!
7) Be sure that you have won and posted one *or
more awards you have won on your site. This is not an entry-level awards site.
8) Do NOT submit your form more then once! The more times
we see the same form in our mailbox decreases the likelihood we will actually visit your site! Ex: 1 time: We will
visit and review your site! 2 times: We may visit your site if we are really bored. 3 times: we will visit your
site when Christmas falls in july. 4 or more: Vegas odds are too high to determine an actual number!
Keep in mind multiple submits can get their address added to a kill filter and never be
seen by us again!
* Highest Priority - Failure to meet this qualification weighs heavily
toward rejection!
Nothing is carved in stone! The above rules are only
a basic guideline, and in visiting a site, we are looking for ways it may win, not Lose! Bear in mind that not
all sites can win. That would not be fair to sites that truly deserve recognition!
The Awards
1) The Hawk - The only award you can win upon submission.
2)The bald Eagle - Given out weekly
3)The golden Eagle - Given out monthly.
Purpose
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Our awards are given out for quality web site design. Whatever avenue one may take to
achieve a "well-designed site" is entirely up to them. Use or don't use whatever design packages or techniques
you wish. Just use what you will on a professional level.
Why another web award?
Everybody seems to have a different opinion on web awards. After all, it is not a tangible
item that one can carry around with them. A gif file is easy enough copy and place on one's site, if one wanted
to do so. Cynics may argue it is a way to get links. An optimist may claim that it will recognize a fellow web
developer's efforts.
From experience I know as far as getting links, awards do that. If one expects their site to become another amazon.com
they will be disappointed. Recognition from another site is true but it is based on the strength of the difficulty
of obtaining the award. The problem is with statistics. We can only tell who applied for an award and won. I tried
announcing the "losers" and that went over really big, NOT! Now I maintain a winner's list and a ratio
of submissions to winners. I hope that means something.
What I defiantly can say is we do look at every site, and we do not use bots that just looks for coding "errors"
as other award sites do. Html errors say little about a site's look and feel and can be misleading as bots will
pick up some java script and dhtml as mistakes. A human eye can be the only fair judge. Further, all winners are
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