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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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In order to avoid the existence of links with the same text pointing to different pages, we have coded the links to those pages in the tables below using the following notation: XMY, where X is either "A" for the Aracnofilia award or "H" for the High In The Sky award and M represents the month (from 1 to 12), followed by Y corresponding to the year's last digit. For instance H23 will point to a page listing all the "High In The Sky" winners for the month of February 2003.

2005 Winners
Month HITSA Aracnofilia Web Design
January N/A (A15)
February (H25) (A25)
March (H35) (A35)
April (H45) (A45)
May (H55) (A55)
June (H65) (A65)
July (H75) (In Process)
August Closed Closed
September Closed Closed
October In Process In Process
November In Process In Process
December In Process In Process
2004 Winners
Month HITSA Aracnofilia Web Design
January (H14) (A14)
February (H24) (A24)
March (H34) (A34)
April (H44) (A44)
May (H54) (A54)
June (H64) (A64)
July N/A N/A
August N/A N/A
September N/A N/A
October (H104) (A104)
November (H114) N/A
December (H124) (A124)
2003 Winners
Month HITSA Aracnofilia Web Design
February (H23) N/A
March (H33) N/A
April (H43) (A43)
May (H53) (A53)
June (H63) N/A
July (H73) (A73)
August (H83) (A83)
September (H93) (A93)
October (H103) (A103)
November (H113) N/A
December (H123) (A123)
Aracnofilia Web Design 2002 Winners
Years Aracnofilia Seals
Bronze Silver Gold
2002 (Bronze: 2002) (Silver: 2002) (Gold: 2002)
High In The Sky, 2001 and 2002 Winners
Years and Quarters High In The Sky Seals
White Gold Purple
2001, 3rd Quarter (White, 3/2001) (Gold, 3/2001) N/A
2001, 4th Quarter (White, 4/2001) (Gold, 4/2001) N/A
2002, 1st Quarter (White, 1/2002) (Gold, 1/2002) N/A
2002, 2nd Quarter (White, 2/2002) (Gold, 2/2002) (Purple, 2/2002)
2002, 3rd Quarter (White, 3/2002) (Gold, 3/2002) N/A
2002, 4th Quarter (White, 4/2002) (Gold, 4/2002) N/A
Excellent Site!, 2000, 2001 and 2002 Winners
Years Excellent Site! Seals
White Gold Purple
All (White, all) (Gold, All) N/A

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We would like to express our gratitude to the all the persons, fellow awardmasters and webmasters, as well as to all the organizations and respective staffs that have supported and helped us since June 2001, giving us all the feedback and counseling necessary to bring us to the point where we are standing today. Thank you!

Special thanks to:

  • Barbara Tampieri, for the incentive in the early days and continued friendship since then;
  • Wendy Sears, for the keen eye and irreverence that never allow us to forget that we are in this for fun;
  • Tobias Strandh, for the design inspiration along the years;
  • Denny Lancaster for his incentive and friendship on our quest for a truly accessible and standards compliant web site;
  • Míc Miller for the all the remarkable advices and examples provided in the only book ever written about web awards: "The Webmaster's Guide to Glory";
  • Ellen and the former Awardsville team for the crucial advice that was the starting point for the current CPSnet Web Awards;
  • Last, but not least, all the webmasters that since June 2001 considered our award programs worthy of consideration.