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We like family friendly, child
safe sites that don't use vulgar, profane, or
discriminatory language. We will NOT evaluate
sites that are considered to be of
an evil nature and/or advocate cruelty to animals
or people. |
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Mouse Trailers and/or Comet Cursors are annoying
and do not enhance the visitor's experience.
DHTML scripting that changes the scroll bar
to a different color or the cursor to a pointer
- if tastefully done - will be accepted as
long as they do not alter the browser behavior
after the visitor leaves your site. |
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Site containing pornography , Warez or any
illegal content or activity will be disqualified
immediately. This includes sites with "Adult
Only" type jokes and/or graphics. PLEASE NOTE
that this also pertains to external links on
your site. If you are linking to sites that contain
any of the material mentioned above, your site
will be disqualified. |
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We love our pets, kids, grandkids, and people
in general and websites that promotes cruelty
or abuse to humans or animals will cause
us to disqualify your site immediately. |
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We love original graphics and content. We evaluate
a lot of sites each month and as such become
very familiar with recurring content or images.
If we discover copyright infractions including
but not limited to text, scripts, graphics
and images we will disqualify your application.
Also note that you will lose points if you
don't have a FULL WRITTEN copyright statement. |
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You must have a dedicated
page in which to display your award(s). We
understand that, perhaps, ours is one of the
first awards you may be applying for, but we
do require that you have a dedicated page in
place to display your award. AS
CLARIFICATION:
Award graphics/icons randomly displayed (without
dates or laudations) on your Intro Page, Home
Page, What's New Page or Press Release Page,
etc., does NOT count as a dedicated awards
page. Our Evaluators take their responsibilities
very seriously and they donate a lot of their
time to this program. If you are serious about
earning an award, we'd like to know that you
are interested in displaying it proudly on
your website! |
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The first level of evaluation is done by an
old gal and unreadable text on your web pages
will result in a disqualification. By "unreadable
text", we mean any of the following: text
that is too small to read in 1024 x 768 resolution;
insufficient contrast between background
and text; a "busy" background that clashes
with the text; text with too much variation
in size, type and color. |
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There is a place for frames on a website but
they must be used correctly.
If you use frames correctly, they have benefits.
But, if your frames do not function properly,
your site will be disqualified. |
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Websites that are comprised of nothing more
than external links and/or ads will be disqualified. |
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Websites that reduce or disable the visitor's
browser functions will be disqualified. This
includes sites that maximize the screen by eliminating
the browser buttons & address bar and forced
plug-ins. |
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We expect that your site will load and display
properly in our browsers. If it is apparent
that your website does not function properly
or there are serious errors in the way your pages
display, your site will be disqualified. |
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If your website causes our computers to crash
or freeze, the evaluation will be ended.
We will go back and try again, but if it
happens a second time, your site will be
disqualified. |
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We don't
like to find broken code on web pages. Examples
of this are elements of a tag, for example, that
are displayed on a page. |
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Websites that contain involuntary
pop-up or pop-under Ads will be disqualified.
A few Google ads, that pertain to your subject
matter, are acceptable as long as they are
child-safe. |
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Sites that contain excessive animations
(more than 2 per page) will be disqualified.
This includes scrolling banner ads and text. |
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When we see websites with a pleasing design,
we'd like to see it continued throughout the
site. We call that design continuity or flow,
and it makes for an enjoyable visit. If your
design varies drastically from page-to-page,
your site will be disqualified. |
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Websites that have 2 or more broken internal
links will result in a disqualification. |
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If your website has 5 or more broken external
links, it will be disqualified. |
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"Under Construction" or "Coming Soon" pages
will result in a disqualification. |
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Disabling the browser's
right-click function does NOT stop people from
stealing your images. The only thing
it accomplishes is to annoy your visitors by
altering their browser behavior. And, in
our case, it will cause your site to be disqualified. |
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There is no excuse for horizontal scroll bars
in 1024 x 768 and it will result in a disqualification. |
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If you have hot-linked images
on your website, you will be disqualified.
Hot-linking is stealing bandwidth from others
and it could ultimately cause their website
to be shut down if their bandwidth limits have
been exceeded. If you don't understand what
hot-linking is, please read this article: WHAT
IS HOTLINKING? |
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We would like to see at least 5 pages of quality
content on your website. "Quality content"
does not include awards pages, guest books,
favorite link pages, forums, or Blogs. Websites
with less than 5 pages of quality content
will be disqualified. |
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A Flash intro can be great, but please
provide a means to SKIP it. The sames goes for
music - please provide a means to turn it off.
If we can't skip your Flash Intro or turn off
your music, we'll have to disqualify your website. |
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There are times when a page must be longer
than normal and we recognize that. If you
have long pages, please include Top of Page
links. Ideally, we'd like to see several
throughout the page, when applicable, but
there must be a Top of Page link at the bottom
(at least), or it will result in a disqualification. |
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Everyone wants to be assured their privacy
is going to be respected. If you collect personally
identifiable information on your website
- and this INCLUDES email addresses - then
you must have a Privacy Policy posted on
your website or you will be disqualified. |
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Children are our heritage and we expect all
websites, notwithstanding their country of origin,
to conform to the overall concept of COPPA if the
website is directed to children or children could
be drawn to it and have the ability to respond. |
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Your site must have a copyright notice in some
form. "Copyright © 2001-2004 ABC
Company All Rights Reserved" is
marginally acceptable. Without a copyright
notice your application will disqualified. |
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You must be at least 17 years of age in order
to apply for our award. If you are under 17 years
of page, we will not accept your application. |
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We are currently only accepting site that
are in English or that have an English version. |
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We are currently not accepting Unofficial Fan
sites. |
