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  nso - awards is designed for those people who have commendable sites, but who don't have the advantage of their own domain. Awards can be awarded to domains, but nso will not discriminate against long URLs.

nso - awards currently has two awards. Both follow the same criteria but are awarded to different levels of excellence. The stand-out feature of nso - awards is that all Winners currently recieve a customised banner.

Winners will be listed, along with their banner if they have one (static 300x50 px), on the Winners' Page.

Winners' Page

 
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top site award



The top site award is awarded to sites which show originality and flair by meeteing the following criteria:
  • "Professionalism"
  • Acceptable download speed
  • Original content and design
  • Clear and organised layout
  • The Back Button should not need to be used
  • Cross-browser compatibility
A break down of these is below. 		 
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imageRecognision of Effort Awardimage
 

top site award



This award is presented to sites on an individual basis, usually where one of the Top Site Award points has not been attained, but the site still shows a lot of effort and originality. 		 
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imageExtra information for both awards – please readimage
 

Sites will be disqualified if:

  • Any links or images are broken, leading to the page becoming unreadable
  • The site contains or links to X-rated, pornographic, or otherwise offensive material
  • The site is still under contruction

Breakdown of Award points:

  • "Professionalism": Site should be comparable to a main-stream site. Visitors should want to come back after being impressed by the overall sceme of things. You should display good spelling and follow two of more of the following pointers:
    • Internal links should open in the main window; external links should open in a new window.
    • Navigation bars, if using frames, are acceptable. Navbars, without frames (ie repeated on each page) should be fast to load.
    • You shouldn't use Flash, Java, JavaScript or DHTML if it takes a long time to download.
    • Your pages' code should be well-written so as not to cause errors or display problems.
  • Acceptable download speed: The visitor should not be sitting for ages waiting for the site to display.
  • Original content and design: The site should have something to offer that no other site does, and should have a memorable appearance that isn't just a rip-off of another site.
  • Clear and orgainised layout: The visitor should be able to see immediately what the site is about, and shouldn't be searching for ages to find a link to another page on your site.
  • The back button should not need to be used: ie, you have a easily-accessible navigation bar.
  • Cross-browser compatibility: The site will be tested using Internet Explorer 6 and Netscape Navigator 6.2.
 
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  Results can take inbetween a day and a month depending on how many other sites are queued to be reviewed

Apologies, I have an abundance of sites to process at the moment, and for that reason I have temporarily closed the submission form. Please check back later. 		 
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