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Evaluation Update:
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Our judges are currently reviewing all entries received during:
Accepting Applications
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The evaluation criteria is tougher than ever before. Although not required, we strongly advise to study the criteria thoroughly, as they contain valuable information you need to familiarize yourself with the working and requirements for this award.
Why you need to understand the criteria
Our criteria has become a complete "self evaluation" guide, intended to help you "prepare" your site to comply with a set of important website issues, as they are evaluated in most top award programs.
Websites are evaluated in 5 sections of 20 points each - 100 points in total - all of great importance in website presentation. You might even wonder why some of these points counts, more the reason why we urge you to read the criteria to understand it better. All criteria pages can be printed out for your convenience. We will never force you to read them all, but it will certainly help a great deal if you do.
The criteria contains valuable point-by-point information on all evaluation subjects. Within you will find full explanations of all evaluation subjects, hints, resources, references, examples and more to help you on your way. You can even evaluate your own site while reading our criteria!
Evaluate your own site?
Evaluate your own site while reading the criteria! If you are interested to see for yourself how your site weighs up against our criteria, we recommend downloading a copy of the score card (see the link on the right hand side), and keep score.
Also read the self evaluation info page to find out how to use and conduct a self evaluation using our criteria. [Read
the info page]
Evaluation process overview:
Click on the sections to view full details of all evaluation topics:
| 1) All applicants are required to read the pre-evaluation criteria! |
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This section is intended to test eligibility of all entries before we subject them to a full evaluation procedure. In order to qualify for an evaluation (Section A - E), the site credentials must pass all of the criteria on this page. Not meeting any of these will result in an automatic disqualification. [Required reading] |
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Basic Functionality
This section contains 20 points of criteria, aimed to test basic functionality of the website, which includes HTML Quality, Speed, Accessibility, Navigation and Compatibility. [Continue] |
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Website Presentation
This section will test the presentation skills of the website, which includes user friendliness, aesthetical skills, design skills, alignment and page layout and effectiveness of web elements. [Continue] |
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Quality of Site Content
This section contains 20 points of criteria, aimed to test the content quality of the website, which includes clarity, purpose, use of language, interactive activities, resource, expression, and attention to details. Content is the key to successful web mastery, which makes this section one of the hardest to obtain a good score. [Continue] |
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Creativity
This section contains 20 points of criteria, aimed to test the degree of creativity in the website, which includes innovative solutions, visualization, creativity, technology and distinctiveness. [Continue] |
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Professionalism
This section contains 20 points of criteria, aimed to test professionalism, value and ethics levels of your website, which includes site focus, client / customer care, values, ethics, effectiveness and use of advanced components.
Regarded as one of the most difficult sections to achieve a good score in, we tend to be lenient depending on the nature of the nominated website, as some of the section subjects may not be applicable. However, e-commerce sites will be evaluated strictly according to this criteria. [Continue]
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First Submitted: December 05th 1998
Last Amended : June 4th 2002 |
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