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Criteria for this award program.
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General Rules:
You must be the owner, webmaster or the designer of the
website to apply for this award program. The biggest emphasis of our award
program is on the technical aspect and construction of the website.
All applicants must be 13 years of age in accordance to accept personal
information as required by (COPPA). We
do not accept applications from applicants under the age of 13, please review
our privacy policy for more details.
The website must be in "English," If your web site is in another language but
is also available in English, you are welcome to apply. All applicants
should run a spell check before submitting your website. We don't expect to
find perfect grammar, but repeated spelling mistakes or poor grammar will
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Images and graphics.
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No broken images. All images must load properly. Linking images from another
website is not permitted and is bandwidth stealing. The only exception is
3rd party image hosting platforms such as (Image shack, Photo bucket etc.)
All images must use proper 'alt' tags. Remember that if you have no alt
tags, your site will fail the W3C validation test which would disqualify
your website. This usually gets overlooked by new webmasters, so it's
important to pay attention to the little details of constructing a web page
properly.
All graphics should be optimized for quick loading and not be too bulky
or large. Keep your graphics and images to a medium size taking into
consideration of users on dialup and slower LAN lines.
Pixilated images or graphics is not a pleasant visual and will definitely
have an impact on your score. We would expect to see nothing more then high
quality graphics, not pixilated, or enormous. If your images are not the
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Giving Credit |
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Give credit where credit is due. If you use someone else's articles, images
or content whether you received permission or not, credit should always be
given to the author and their web site. This should be a clear statement and
must accompany the material on the same page.
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Content
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No less than 7 pages of original content designed by the applicant.
The following will not count as original content:
• Forums
• Top Sites
• Award pages
• Splash page
• Guestbook's
• Email form's
• Banner exchange pages
• Newsletter Archives
Quality content: Your website should have a clear intent of what it's about by the content it displays; it should always be informative and up to date. It should be appealing and grab the visitor's attention giving the visitor a reason to come back.
The font used should be consistent from page to page, and it should not be too large or to small. It should be easy to read especially for those with visually impairments. The font should also be in good contrast with the background. Try to avoid fonts that blend in to the background as their really quite distracting and a strain on the eyes.
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apply. Not all sites will qualify for the award. If you do not receive an
email, contact us using this form (Click Here). If it has been more than 3 months since you applied, please
re-apply again. All sites must comply with the
COPPA Act! If you have read the criteria and the guidelines click the button below!
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