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2005-07-08, Awarded "Best Award Graphic" by AFA
We are proud to announce that the HITSASeal was selected as the "Best Award Graphic" by AFA, for the month of July of 2005. To all EUTODA' staff our sincere thanks for this honour! More info about this award is available at our "Honors Granted" section.
2005-06-22, Listed #2 among 31,000 web sites at Silktide SiteScore
With a rating of 9.5 (in 10 possible), the CPSnet Web Awards attained the second position at SiteScore's TOP 750, the best 750 from about 31,000 web sites tested until this date. Silktide SiteScore is a free tool which rates how well designed, popular and accessible a website is. The entire testing process is handled by advanced computer software. SiteScore also gathers user feedback on all the websites rated, to help judge how appealing a design is. SiteScore rates all websites on a scale of 1-10 (10 being the highest). Scores are broken down into 5 categories: Marketing, Design, Accessibility, Experience and User Feedback.
2005-06-07, listed at "Design Snack"
Design Snack is a database of websites rated based on the quality of their design and presentation. Its unique rating scale uses "cookies" and a site can get anywhere from 0-3 cookies, 3 being the highest. The CPSnet Web Awards were rated with "One Cookie" and listed under the "Award Sites" section of the portal.
2005-05-15, rated 6 by EUTODA
We are proud to announce that our program is now one of the few Web awards programs to achieve the prestigious level 6 at EUTODA, the Academy of Fine Awards. To all EUTODA' staff our sincere thanks for this honour!
2005-02-02, recognized as a 5+ Elite Award by Award Sites!
As it states at Award Sites!, "In recognition of owner, Carlos Simões, for his efforts going well beyond his award program in 'bettering the net through excellence!'". Needless to say that we at the CPSnet Web Awards are honoured by this outstanding distinction. Thank You AS! and thank you all the awardmasters and applicants that helped building this program!
2005-01-16, selected the Site Of The Year 2004!
It is that time of the year again, when we at the CPSnet Web Awards select the best site of the previous year. And this time, our panel of invited judges and our permanent review team have selected Tim's Spider Corner as the Best Site Of The Year 2004! Congratulations Tim Beylemans, for your outstanding website! Tim's Spider Corner is an educational site for all spider fans that addresses the conservation of nature. You will find bird eating spider information, as well as an assortment of pictures, handling tips, resource links, a spider knowledge quiz, and the complete anatomy of a bird eating spider.
2005-01-09, awarded the "Humanity Award 2005" by the The Rose Awards:
"We are very proud for being granted this distinction that it is given out to... Webmasters/webmistresses who give back of themselves to the worldwide Net community, offering their talents, their skills, their web sites, as resource points for other people who are interested in bettering themselves and their own sites ... These special people are a great asset to the World Community because they offer their advice and expertise to all who seek it, and everyday, they are making the Internet a better place to be!...". More info about this award is available at our "Honors Granted" section.
2004-10-20, listed at W3 Compliant Sites
Carlos Simoes is now a "W3 Compliant Sites Member". W3 Compliant Sites is a collection of web sites that were created by designers that conform with the W3C standards. This forum provides the opportunity for them to display their work and ideas in a community that shares common interests.
2004-10-13, listed at net-guide.co.uk
The CPSnet Web Awards are now listed at net-guide.co.uk with an accessibility rating of "excellent". This directory aims to promote accessible sites and gives an accessibility rating for the websites returned for any query entered. Similarly, the directory entries also carry an accessibility rating.
2004-06-07, rated 5 by WebsAwards
A special panel of external judges, convened to assess the programs owned by WebsAwards' Staff members, has rated the CPSnet Web Awards as a WebsAwards level 5 program.
2004-05-04, rated 3 by Awardia
The Awardia Index has rated the CPSnet Web Awards as a level 3 (in 4 possible, where the fourth level is designated "Corona").
2004-04-01, rated 4 by EAI:
The Euro Award Index reinstated this award program at "Level 4" (in 5 possible).
2004-03-23, joined WSG:
We have joined the Web Standards Group (WSG). The Web Standards Group is for web developers/designers who are interested in web standards, CSS and (X)HTML and related topics.
2004-03-15, web site redesigned:
The CPSnet Web Awards have now a brand new website, fully compliant XHTML 1.0 Strict, "made with CSS" and WCAG-WAI Level AAA. Thank you to Webmates, of which we are proud members, for all the help and for the inspiration!
2004-01-15, announced the Best Site of Year 2003:
Announced back in 15/January 2004: "Explore Mars Now". In this outstanding website, visitors can walk through a Mars habitat simulation learning about science and technology as they explore. There are over 100 photo-realistic 3-D images of a near term Mars Habitat concept that are "brought to life" in Macromedia Flash.
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About this Award program: History and Facts

Some links are provided to a special archive section, hosted at our sponsor's web site, that allows our visitors to browse the previous versions of the CPSnet Web Awards. Those fully functional websites are not to be used as an alternative to this website, are not being maintained any longer, and are being preserved for historical reasons.

2000-2001, the origin...

The CPSnet Web Awards were established in June 2001, being the "Excellent Site Award" its precursor. This Excellent Site Award was launched in November 2000, remaining in operation until December 2002.

In July 2001, the CPSnet Web Awards were already listed by the major Web Awards organizations:

  • 08.July.2001: Rated 9.5 by "Webs Awards"
  • 11.July.2001: Rated 3 by "German Top Awards"
  • 12.July.2001: Listed in "Website Awards Worksheet"
  • 13.July.2001: Listed as one of the "Best 9 Awards in the World" by the "Mystery Award System"
  • 14.July.2001: Accepted as CEM/CEMA member
  • 16.July.2001: "Kingdom of Internet" noble title of "Knight of Awards" granted
  • 18.July.2001: Rated 3.5 by "Award Sites!"

Until the end of 2001, the CPSnet Web Awards were also accepted as members of the following organizations:

  • 09.October.2001: Accepted as APEX member
  • 17.October.2001: Accepted as "United Awards Givers" member
  • 01.November.2001: Accepted as AECG member
  • 01.November.2001: Rated 7 by UAG
  • 04.November.2001: Listed in "Awards Hot List"
  • 25.November.2001: Granted the Award-Siegel' "Seal of Approval"

By the end of 2001, the CPSnet Web Awards were also upgraded to level 4.0 by Award Sites! The site in operation in December 2001 already presented some of the distinctive elements still recognizable today.

2002, the redefinition of the project...

During the year of 2002 several experiments took place at the CPSnet Web Awards, like the Site of The Month Award that was discontinued lately that year. The Aracnofilia Web Design Award was also introduced in January 2002. This new program was the first of our websites to be HTML 4 validated. Several new ratings and upgrades occurred and the site remained basically the same.

  • 08.March.2002: Rated 3.0 by ARC
  • 01.May.2002: Upgraded to level 4.5 by "Award Sites!"

UAG, ARC and GTA no longer exist, as well as "Award-Siegel" and "Awards Hot List".

2003, the year of all upgrades...

A completely new site was launched in February 2003, already showing some concernings with standards compliant code and accessibility issues. 2003 was an important year for this program that attained during that year some of the most important recognitions in the web awards community:

  • 19.April.2003: Listed as one of the "Best Two Awards In The World" by the "Mystery Award System".
  • 30.April.2003: Listed as one of the "Internet Best Awards" by "I.B.A.- Internet Best Awards"
  • 21.May.2003: "Award Sites!" rating upgraded to 5.0 (Elite Award)
  • 03.June.2003: Rated 4 by "Euro Award Index"
  • 26.June.2003: Rated "World's Top Award" by "Website Awards"

2004, the quest for accessibility begins...

February 2004 saw a new CPSnet Web Awards site, a standards-compliant one, using XHTML 1.0 Strict, and seeking WAI-AAA compliance. This website marked a major turning in the program, with a new criteria set and scoring procedures.

  • 24.May.2004: Rated 3 by Awardia
  • 07.June.2004: Rated 5 by the new WebsAwards

2005, still here...

It could not have been better, the beginning of this year:

On behalf of the AS! Advisory Board and management . . . I want to extend a hearty congratulations on the "+" being added to your CPSnet Web Award Program . . . as it designates recognition of your selfless acts of helping others in the awards community and elsewhere beyond your award program, which is all about . . . Bettering The Net By Striving for Excellence. David Bancroft, Award Sites!

  • 15.May.2005: Rated 6 by EUTODA

Launched in April 2005, the current web site again shows our concerns with accessibilty, usability and standards compliance. The CPSnet Web Awards are now a mature and fully developed Award program and we are proud for having been able to take it where it stands now.

Until February 2003 and since July 2001 we have received about 950 applications. About 29% of them have earned one of our awards. You can still visit our previous winners: in this page you can visit here both current and old winners or you can go directly to each page:

The new CPSnet Web awards that you are now visiting, are in operation since February 2003. Major changes included dropping our multi-level awards and the closing of the "Excellent Site! Award". We have now two award programs with distinct purposes. Criteria set is now more elaborated. Scoring procedure is now even more rigorous. A greater emphasis in good web design practices, standards-compliant code and accessibility awareness is now evident in our criteria.

Earning one of our awards has become a little more difficult, but we know that outstanding websites are out there waiting for our visit.