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General criteria for website selection:
Who can nominate a site?
Any webmaster or site owner over the age
of 18 may nominate their site if it is in English. At the present time I am "lingually"
challenged therefore sites not in English can not be judged. Babel Fish and
other translator sites are not sufficient. There must be a complete English
translation of your site to be eligible. Please fill out the
application. If you were
directed here from a listing that automatically submits to many sites, I request
that you complete my application before I review your site. I do not
evaluate stand alone Award Programs, sites that are purely political in nature,
or sites that exist only to sell a product or service.
Your site should have
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The site should have a stated purpose and should
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It should be entertaining and educational.
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The
content and/or presentation should pique my interest and leave me
wanting more. This does not mean it has to be a topic that interests me, but
the way it is presented should be interesting.
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There should be smooth and easy navigation
through the pages. Complicated navigation may be cool to look at and be fun to
play with, but it can be difficult to use.
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Links to the home page and a site map on every
page are very useful.
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There should be some interactive pages, not all
static pages.
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Graphics and text should be appealing to look at,
not an eyesore. Excessive use of animated graphics is distracting and
annoying, no matter how cute they may be.
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Free services if it is a commercial site. It
should offer free graphics, tutorials, care sheets, tips, etc...
Your
site should not have
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Any "under construction" or "coming soon"
pages. Over the past ten years this site has never stopped growing and is
always "under construction". Most good websites are. It can be very
frustrating to see a link to information you are interested in on the site,
click the link, and get "UNDER CONSTRUCTION".
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Any broken links.
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Any copyright infringements. You must have
permission to use any material not designed by you and you must credit the
original source on your site. No WAREZ or music and/or file swapping sites.
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Right click disabled - Viewing the source code is useful for verification
of copyright infringement (many free scripts require leaving a copyright
statement and link to their site in the coding. Most "No Right Click"
scripts are easily bypassed with a click of the center mouse button
followed by a click of the right button, or using view source from the
browser menu.
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Trailing cursors, scrolling marquees, scrolling status bar, or other
distracting "moving parts" including overuse of animated graphics.
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Control of my controls. This is not "The Outer Limits". Do not take
control of my computer monitor. I like my browser controls just the way I have
them set up. Please do not take my address window, menu bar, or status
bar from me.
Automatic Disqualification
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Any adult content
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Any LINKS TO: adult content, inflammatory or derogatory sites, offensive or objectionable material, or illegal activity.
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Any inflammatory or derogatory sites. No offensive
or objectionable material. No one-sided political content. Not everyone agrees
on issues of politics and religion and in order to prevent the impression of
favoring a particular view, this AP will not "promote" sites that only
express or unfavorably express only one side of these topics.
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Any illegal activity.
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Sites that only contain a listserve/group, forum or chat room, or
collection of links. There needs
to be original educational content.
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Sites which require evaluators to join in order to view them are not
eligible.
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Stand alone Award Program
For complete criteria and scoring see
Specific Criteria and Scoring (It is recommended
that you follow Chammy thru the process and not skip ahead)
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