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- Latest from the CPSnet Web Awards, web awards for web sites:
- 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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