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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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General Rules and Procedures

Created 2003-01-30. Reviewed 2005-04-25: Added clarifications and requisites for children' sites; Reworded the item in our Privacy Policy regarding "Children Privacy Protection".

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Rules and Procedures

Please note that applications showing some evidence that our rules, procedures and criteria were not properly considered, will be disregarded immediately, without further notice.

No other scoring system and/or criteria than those stated at this web site, namely in the "Criteria..." and "... Scoring" pages will be used to evaluate any website submitted to the CPSnet Web Awards.

We will not disclose the score sheet of any website evaluated by our award programs. We will eventually point any obvious and serious flaw we found on a website only after the evaluation has been concluded, in the light of positive criticism. The decision is final and not open to further discussion.

I. Nomination and Application

  1. Our Awards can be earned two ways: The evaluation panel, following a recommendation made by an official evaluator, decides to award a site OR the site is suggested by its owner or webmaster and attains the necessary classification in the evaluation process.
  2. Exception made to the situation referred in the first case, only the site's author, owner or webmaster, can submit it to this award program. No site owned or webmastered by someone below the age of 16 can apply for our awards.
  3. Bulk submissions are not accepted. A webmaster can submit one site each time to this award program. Please retain that the 90 days delay rule applies for another submission from the same webmaster, even if concerning another site.
  4. No more than three (3) websites from the same author, owner or webmaster can be awarded any of our awards.
  5. The applicant should select the award program to which the site is being submitted. This should be stated in the appropriate field in our Application form.
  6. We will not transfer applications between award programs nor will we award other than the applicant's chosen award, even if during the review process we conclude that the site complies with the minimum requirement for the other award program. The 90 days period applies also to applications from the same site and/or webmaster to any of the CPSnet Web Awards.
  7. Any bulk submission or consecutive submissions for different websites from the same webmaster will cause disqualification of the sites being submitted.
  8. If using another way of submitting a site (if, for instance, the CGI-based submission form fails or the e-mail form is not supported), we ask you to include the sentence "by regular e-mail" in the first line of the application message. Also, all the data indicated as required in our standard submission forms should be provided. Failure to comply with these two requirements for non-standard applications may cause the application being ignored.
  9. Applications evidencing that appropriate attention was not given to these criteria may be disqualified without further notice.

The classification process begins as soon as the evaluator, after a preliminary visit to the site considers it eligible to be eventually awarded one of our awards. We will visit your website as many times as we consider necessary for a thoroughly review. However, should the URL you supplied us be unavailable by the time of the first visit, we will try in the following 72 hours to access your website one more time. Should the situation remain, the evaluation will be finished. This applies to any of the following visits during the evaluation process. Also, we can not afford to try to find the correct URL for your site, if it is not readily available.

II. Rules for re-submissions

  1. The webmaster of a site that has not been considered eligible in the preliminary visit or did not attained the necessary classification to be awarded with one of our awards, will be able to submit it again for evaluation for no more than three (3) times in a one (1) year period, as long as:
    1. the site has been effectively remodeled and ameliorated;
    2. no less than 90 days have passed since the last evaluation;
    3. Failure to comply with these rules may cause the site to incur in a permanent disqualification.

III. Rules for accepting our awards

  1. After receiving the communication that the site has been awarded one of our awards, its owner or webmaster must confirm, within a 10 days period, if the award is accepted. Be aware that a failure to confirm the acceptation within the 10 days period will be considered as a refusal;
  2. After the site has been included in the list, the site's webmaster should try to add, within a 7 days period, in a visible place of the site or in a page reserved for this purpose, the award seal.
  3. We do not authorize to change the appearance of the Seal (including the -- but not limited to -- file size, image dimensions, color depth, gamma, balance and curves, the image format, compression and/or optimization), remove the watermark in it (if present) by means of re-editing the image or change the original filename. Any of the previous situations, if detected, will lead to immediate revocation of the award.
  4. Failure to comply with these rules may cause the site to incur in a permanent disqualification.

IV. Final notes

  1. The decision is final: The evaluator's decision and the site's classification are final and generally not open to any further discussion. We will try to notify all applicants of the final result. There is no such thing as a list of rejected applicants. In case the site was not awarded one of our awards, an e-mail message may be sent to the site's webmaster or owner. Replying to this message in inappropriate terms contesting the decision will lead to permanent disqualification of the site.
  2. All awarded sites will be included in our Winners lists: The listing will include the site's title, the name of the owner, author and/or webmaster and a brief but as detailed as possible description of the site's content and characteristics. Our listings will include also a thumbnail of the site's main page (approx. dimensions 160x90). This way our visitors may have a first impression of the site. Authorization for this special listing is hereby assumed to be given by every winner.
  3. Awarded sites may be regularly checked for compliance with our rules and criteria. If a site is found to be modified since the evaluation and that the modification configures some severe depreciation or even disqualification of the site, it will be removed from the list of awarded sites, the webmaster or site's owner will be informed of this decision and will have to remove our award seal as soon as possible, unless the disqualifying item is removed instead. Also be aware that we do some periodic checks on the link you have provided and whenever one site is found not available, it may be removed from our lists. Please let us know of any changes to your site's URL.