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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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Below are our official award graphics, to be used by all and only the 2005 and forward winners. You can find also several banners and buttons that can be used by our winners in the awarded sites. It is also possible to use those banners and buttons to link to the CPSnet Web Awards and, provided that authorization is requested, sites not listed in our winners lists can use them also. If you are planning to use any of our PNG graphics, be aware that Internet Explorer in Windows has a problem with the rendering of PNG images. Read about the PNG problem in I.E. and the solution for it.

The High In The Sky Award
The High In The Sky Award Seal
HITSA Seal
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Rated AS! 5.0+, WTA, WA 5
The purpose of this award is to praise those websites that, for the nature of the content and for the quality of the design and implementation, present an undeniable excellence that places them well above the remaining ones and makes them worthy of being publicly designated as examples to be followed and as true knowledge and information sources. This program offers one top award for excellence in content and overall balanced design and implementation.
The site must be considered as a true knowledge source and a reference in its field, preferably dedicated to one single theme, its content being, most of it, original, informative, educational and/or entertaining; must have good to excellent design, adequate original graphics and artwork; presented well and easy to access and navigate. We welcome sites with educational, scientific, artistic and/or cultural content of outstanding quality, presented in an original way, asking for the visitors' participation and providing these visitors access to an extensive and resourceful knowledge source.
Related info: HITSA Winners, Content Criteria, Best Award Graphic (July 2005), by AFA.
The Aracnofilia Award
The Aracnofilia Web Design Award Seal
Aracnofilia Seal
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Rated AS! 5.0+, WTA, WA 5
This award program has the sole purpose of rewarding outstanding, flawless and sound Web Design. It will not reward only visually outstanding sites but also sites that are flawless in many other aspects. Always keeping in mind that a well designed site should be simple, clear, consistent, appropriate, appealing and last but not least, usable.
This award will be given to web sites that present a great overall balance of design, layout, well optimized graphics, download time, friendly and functional navigation, browsers and platforms compatibility and overall professional appearance, originality and maintenance.
Related info: ARACNO Winners, Design Criteria
Best Site Of The Year
Best Site Of The Year Seal
SOTY Seal
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Rated AS! 5.0+, WTA, WA 5
Every year, the very best site submitted to any of the CPSnet Web Awards will be selected, amongst the winners, by means of a voting by our Eval Team and by a special panel of invited judges. Only one site per year will be awarded. The winner of the previous year will be known on January, the 15th. It will earn the right to use an exclusive and personalized "Best Site Of The Year" Seal.
Related info: SOTY Winners, SOTY Judges