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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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Final notes, please read...

Resuming normal operation: Applications are now open again. Due to the current delay in our reviews, applications from 2005-20-11 will only be evaluated next January 2006. We apologise for this inconvenience and we thank you for your understanding!

Please read our criteria and our privacy policy (as well as our Children Online Privacy and Safety Policy) carefully before submitting your site for evaluation.

If you feel that your site will probably fail to meet some criterion or that it could incur in some of the disqualification factors, then you are probably right and please consider making the necessaries changes to your website before taking this step. Not having this good sense may lead to your site being disqualified in the preview, meaning this that you only be able to resubmit the site for appreciation after 90 days.

The applicant may select the award program to which the site is being submitted. This must be stated in the appropriate field in the Application form.

Note: We will not transfer applications between award programs nor will we award other than the applicant's choosen 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.

After submitting the data requested in the form below, you will receive a confirmation message in the next 72 hours. If you do not receive this message, please re-send the information, this time using a simple e-mail message addressed to webawards@cpsimoes.net

The evaluation process will take place during the next weeks. It is our intention to notify all applicants of the final result, but if you not hear from us within two months, you can safely assume that your site was not awarded this time. There is no such thing as a list of rejected applicants.

Current review times and schedules: 60 days for the High In The Sky Award and 60 days for the Aracnofilia Award.

Be aware that the evaluator's decision is final, will not discriminate partial scores and not open to further discussion, so if your site fails to be awarded this time, you should, if you pretend to resubmit it, make the necessary changes, instead of arguing with our team about the decision. This attitude will lead to your e-mail address being blocked and your web site considered no longer eligible to receive this award, being this a permanent situation.

All fields marked with a * are required. The remaining are optional.

Privacy Policy: in a few words, the personal information you provide in here will be considered confidential and used only for (and during) the evaluation process. Only awarded web sites will be added to our Winners Lists. For a more detailed Privacy Notice, go to this page. If you do not agree with our stated Privacy Policy, you should not send us any information nor submit your website for evaluation. In addition we will not consider eligible to be awarded one of our awards any website owned and/or operated by someone below the age of sixteen (16), if and when personally identifiable information about the owner / webmaster is present in the website. Read more about this at our Children Online Privacy and Safety Policy.

Note: By pressing the "Submit" button below, you are giving formal authorization to the owner of this award program to: Give access to the information you are providing to the CPSnet Review team; Include excerpts of this information (excluding email address) in any eventual and public "Status List" or "Recent Applications" list; Include excerpts of this information (excluding email address) as well as a screenshot of your website, in our public Winners lists if you and your website are awarded the award you are this way applying for. A link to any website under evaluation and the site's title can be displayed and publicly available, during the review, in any eventual "Status list". If you do not want this information to be publicly available, please state "NO STATUS" in the first line of the "Description" field in the application form.

Please write all the information required in a correct manner, using capital letters only and when appropriate. Applications containing the web site title, the name and/or the site's description written using only uppercase or lowercase letters will be immediately disqualified.

If the server fails to process this PHP-based form, still under testing, you will be notified and you should try again later. In case you are sure the form has not been processed, please use our email-based application form.

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This application will only be reviewed next January 2006. Read notice in the top of this page!

If the server fails to process this PHP-based form, still under testing, you will be notified and you should try again later. In case you are sure the form has not been processed, please use our email application form.

In alternative, please provide all the information required above (and following the order in the form) using a simple e-mail message. This e-mail message must be addressed to webawards@cpsimoes.net

You will receive a confirmation message in the next 72 hours. If you do not receive this message, please re-send the information. Please be aware that current evaluation period is 60 days. We will try to notify all applicants of the final result, but if due to any unforeseen circumstances you do not hear from us after 60 days, you can assume that your site was not awarded this time and you may re-apply.

Check our status page for the most current information regarding the pending reviews.