Do you meet the Requirements?
The below information is a list of requirements that have to be
applicable to your website. Failure to comply with all tweleve
(12) of these requirements will result in disqualification. We
reserve the right to refuse any future applications by the
submitting webmaster or website for that or any other
site if they are deemed to be in violation.
If you feel that your site may not comply with all of the below
please make the necessary adjustments before applying. |
1. Site type:
Business, personal, and non-profit sites are welcome to apply.
However, forum sites, portals and search engines are
prohibited from submitting. |
2. Language:
To effectively evaluate your website, I need to be able to
read and understand your content. To apply for this award, your
site has to be written in ENGLISH or have an English
alternative which is correctly translated. |
3. Load time:
Today's web surfer is extremely impatient. The general
consensus is that a website should start to appear within 10
seconds and be fully loaded in under a minute or the user will
exit. I allow both html and flash websites a maximum of 2
minutes to load on (56k). After this time it is deemed that the site
is not designed to meet the users needs and it will be
disqualified. |
4. Accessibility:
It is important to have a website that is always available to the
user. If I cannot access your website I will check it
approximately 12 hours later and if I am still unable to view
your site the evaluation process will be terminated. If on the
second attempt I am successful I will continue the review
process but will make regular checks and if it does happen
again I will stop the evaluation. Secondly, being Deaf myself I can sympothise with others that
are considered physically challenged. If your site is not accessible to all through the use of alt tags
and/or other ways limits browsing for for the physically challenges the evalustion will like wise be terminated. |
5. Under construction:
Sites are always under construction and we do understand if
you want to provide room for future projects. However too
many "coming soon" notices will harm your chances so
please restrict these to an absolute minimum. An entire section
being inaccessible because it is under construction is
absolutely unacceptable and such sites will be disqualifie |
6. Quality
content:
Your website should have at least 5 pages of valuable content
or it will be rejected. The following will not count as content:
* Awards won or testimonies
* Process Forms
* Policy pages
* Link pages
* Search pages or similar, etc. |
7. Undesired
content:
Your website or any part of it (which includes links, buttons,
advertisements etc) must not contain any content that can be
considered or globally viewed as controversial, illegal or
unsuitable to be viewed by all ages and ethical groups, which
includes content based on the following subjects and/or
nature:
* Racism, hate and discrimination
* Nudity, sex and pornography.
* Promotion of illegal activities or crime.
* Distribution of copyrighted material.
* Use of bad, vulgar language, profanity.
* Spam, chain letters or similar activities.
Nudity shown for the sake of art will be exempt but it has to be
tasteful and should not contain or portray any sexual intent or
representation, shock value, exploitation, abuse or harmful
actions to any person, place or thing.
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8. Password protection:
Your website should not require your visitors to login,
subscribe or register in order to gain access to main areas.
When I evaluate your site I will not subscribe to any
service whatsoever. If I can not access your site,I cna not evaluate it. Separate
membership pages for customers are allowed and will not be penalized.
I fully understand
that
certain things are meant for your clients only.
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9. Advertisements:
Popup advertising banners are extremely annoying. I will
only allow one popup advert on your site and it should not
reappear once closed. Anymore than one pop up will result in
disqualification. This applies to free space servers also. Most of the top free servers allow
the user to select banner advertisements over pop ups. |
10. Trick or forced
clicks:
You should never try to trick or force your visitors to visit your
sponsors / advertisers in order to gain access to your content.
Additionally, offering incentives or advantages for clicking on
advertiser banners is also prohibited.
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11. Improper coding:
If your website does any of the following it will be disqualified:
* Your site causes my computer to crash.
* Your site does not allow me to use the browser�s back button.
* If I believe your site has attempted to access our computer (cookies exempt)
in order to record personal information or implant something on my computer
the evaluation will be
terminated and I will report you and your website to the appropriate authorities.
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3. Application code word:
When you fill in the application form you will see a blank box
titled �Code word�. In this section please type the word
* superficial *. The reason for implementing this is to
encourage applicants to read this requirements page in order to
avoid unsuitable websites from being submitted. Although I
will not fail applicants who do not enter the code word we will
penalize them 5 points. |
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