Mearnswood Media Excellence in Design Award (2008)

Description: Mearnswood Media, a Scottish web design and hosting company, offers its award "to give official recognition and acknowledgement for the hard work and dedication that [webmasters] put into constructing their web sites using their own brand of style, creativity, and content." Sites are evaluated on content, design, and HTML coding. Citation: "Congratulations! Your Web site has been selected to win the Mearnswood Media Excellence in Design Award. ... I have chosen your site to be a worthy of our Excellence in Design Award. ... Again, Congratulations from the team at Mearnswood Media and keep up the good work!" Awarded: 18 February 2008

Lupe's Award

Description: Lupércio Mundim, a Brazilian lawyer and webmaster, offers Lupe's Awards "to reward good sites creators." Sites are evaluated on content, design, and navigation. Rating: [ Award Sites! 3.5 | AWARD 4.0 ] Citation: "The Lupe's Awards had the honor of grant to your website "Matt Wallace's The Compleat Heretic" the Bronze Award for a nice design and an interesting content, congratulations!" Awarded: 13 February 2008 Superseded: 25 July 2013 by Lupe's Award: Silver

Pleasure Gait Farms Award of Excellence

Description: Sherry and Chuck Hartley, horse breeders specializing in Missouri Fox Trotting and Spotted Saddle horses, of Pleasure Gait Farms in Kennett, Missouri offers their award to web sites which are family friendly. Sites are evaluated primarily on family friendly content. Citation: "Of course your personal site qualifies. I really enjoyed visiting it and would be honored if you would accept our award. ... Thanks again, Sherry" Awarded: 4 February 2008

Art Space 2000 World Web Award of Excellence (2008-2009)

Description: Art Space 2000, an online art gallery, rewards "creativity, integrity and excellence on the web" with this award. Sites are evaluated on creativity, overall design, appearance, purpose, and ease of navigation. Citation: "Congratulations you have won the "World Web Award of Excellence" for web site design, creativity, and ease of navigation. Keep up the good work. ... You have obviously worked very hard investing your time, and skills into making a great web site." Awarded: 21 January 2008

Michael's Award of Excellence

Description: Michael Starz, a German webmaster from Baden-Wuerttemberg, offers his awards "to act as a motivation for homepages with high quality and good content" and "to promote private, non-professional, personal homepages which represent a high standard or which try to reach this standard." Sites are evaluated on personality, content, design, quality, functionality, value, originality, and subjectivity. Rating: [ Award Sites! 3.5 | UWSAG 3.0 | WebsAwards 1 ] Citation: "Congratulations: score 82 at the first shot - this means Silver!!! Personality (30%) 24, Content (20%) 16, Design (30%) 20, Quality/Function (10%) 8, Added Value (10%) 7, Originality (10%) 7, Subjectivity (±10%) 0, Total 82 I like your site very much, I could feel a lot of head and heart. You spent a lot of effort in creating this site, lot's of interesting content to be detected. The design is very good - no discussion about it; the creativity and the ideas are just great. Keep on with your good work and enjoy the award!" Awarded: 2 July 2005 Superseded: 13 July 2009 by Michael's Award of Excellence (Reaward)

Sgt Pleiku's Number 1 Website Award

Description: Sgt Pleiku's Award Program offers the Number 1 Website Award to recognize "graphic and design excellence" and "to reward webmasters for unique and original websites." Sites are evaluated on load time, content, navigation, creativity, graphics, and design. Rating: [ Award Sites! 3.0 | UWSAG 2.0+ | WebsAwards 2 ] Citation: "Congratulations! Your website has earned Sgt Pleiku's Number 1 Website Award for graphic and design excellence." Awarded: 5 April 2005

Pointless Communications Bottom 95% of All Web Sites Award

Description: "Pointless Communications Corp. is a company that arbitrarily rates sites on the World Wide Web according to our own tastes. Fortunately we have undiscriminating tastes, since our corporate mission is to see that every site on the World Wide Web, no matter how poorly constructed and how devoid of worthwhile content, is recognized, and to encourage all authors, regardless of talent, to keep on writing and filling up the bandwidth." All web sites "automatically qualify" if they "haven't been selected by that other outfit as being worthy of their designating your site among the top five percent of all web sites." Citation: "This site has been rated among the bottom 95% of all Web sites by Pointless Communications ®." Awarded: 1 April 2005

book-look Award of Excellence

Description: book-look, a British online book and entertainment reviewer and reseller, offers "three awards to Web sites that are exceptionally well constructed, in recognition of the long hours, hard work and positive contributions, Web site developers and graphic designers make to the World Wide Web." Starting in 2005, only "sites relating to the Arts and Literature" will be awarded. "Sites are judged based on ease of navigation, content, graphic quality, page layout and design." Rating: [ Award Sites! 3.0 ] Citation: "I am delighted to tell you that we have now assessed your Web site (www.CompleatHeretic.com) and, based on the ease of navigation, content, graphic quality, page layout and design, we have awarded you the book-look "Top Spot" award for Web site excellence." Awarded: 29 March 2005 Superseded: 19 February 2008 by book-look Award of Excellence (Reaward)

Lindor Award (2005)

Description: The Lindor Award recognizes "excellence in Web Page Design" and "the hard work, time and effort, originality and talent that have been put into a Web Site." Sites are evaluated on content, design, and navigation. Rating: [ Award Sites! 2.5 ] Citation: "Congratulations! You have just won one of Lindor's Awards! The BRONZE one!" Awarded: 17 March 2005 Superseded: 9 March 2008 by Lindor Award (2008) [Award Sites! 3.0]

Miller Communications Group Writer's Award

Description: Miller Communications Group, formerly Nu-Horizons Design Studio, a Canadian web site development firm, offers numerous specialized awards to webmasters in recognition for "the time, imagination, artistic creativity and endless dedication in the development and growth of their site(s)." The Writer's Award "is for all poetry & prose (no profanity) from novice to infamous levels." Citation: "We applaud your site's ease of navigation, obvious hard work, and inspiring content. It is with great pleasure that we give you the Writer's Award." Awarded: 16 March 2005

Aloha Award

Description: Hawaii City presents awards to "web sites that show excellence" and are "informative and unique." Sites are evaluated on ease of navigation, content, and design. Citation: "All of us agreed that you truly do have an interesting web site with quality content and design. The Aloha Award is not an easy award to win. That is why this award is seen so infrequently. ... Proudly display the Aloha Award to let others know that your Web site is informative, unique and has won this prestigious award. Congratulations and Aloha." Awarded: 15 March 2005

Timelines Award of Excellence and Timelines Future Minded Website

Description: Friedrich Hornischer, a German webmaster, presents his Timelines Awards "to bring sites together that present new thoughts and new aspects of possibilities to manage life in the coming centuries." Sites are evaluated on content, design, and presentation. Rating: [ Award Sites! 3.0 | UWSAG Alpha | WebsAwards 1 ] Citation: "It was a pleasure to visit Your sites, and I see the big work and time You have invested in making Your sites! It is interesting to read Your biography, and many other chapters of Your sites! You have a lot of own publications online, and a collection of Your own favourite games, movies and music! Your personal irritations are not for everybody to share- maybe that explains Your hate mail site. Your sites meet the content requirements, the criterias with 20 points, presentation- 20 points, design- 18 points, overall excellence- 20 points: 78 points- congratulation, You have won my Award of Excellence! ... Congratulations, go on with Your excellent work!" "As Your site is open for new thoughts You can display the future minded site certification." Awarded: 14 March 2005 Superseded: 24 March 2009 by Timelines Award of Excellence: Silver [Award Sites! 4.5 | AWARD 5.0 | UWSAG 5.0 | WebsAwards 5]