A Scot Down Under Outstanding Site Award

Description: Moira Morgan, an Australian webmistress, offers her A Scot Down Under Outstanding Site Award to recognize other webmasters and webmistresses for the time and effort they put into their sites. Citation: "Thanks for asking for my award and I had a good look at your site and see a lot of work has gone into it." Awarded: 15 April 2012

Fun Tyme Entertainment Award

Description: Sandra Gerbers, a businesswoman and webmistress from Green Bay, Wisconsin, operates the Fun Tyme Entertainment Awards Program "to provide recognition to webmasters for excellence, hard work and creativity" by giving awards "to those who show outstanding interest in making their web sites the best that they can and making the web a better place for all." Sites are evaluated on design, content, graphics, creativity, load time, and navigation. Rating: [ Award Sites! 5.0+ | AWARD 5.5 | UWSAG 5.0 | WebsAwards 5 ] Comments: "Not everyone will agree with some of this site's content but for the open minded it is a good view. Of special interest to me was the poetry section. The poetry is a straight shot from the heart, moving and so full of feeling! The site over-all is well done and easily showcases its content well. Well Done!" Citation: "The Fun Tyme Entertainment Awards Program salutes your dedication and congratulates you on being a winner of our Gold Award. Our awards are not easy to obtain at any level and to win our award is a great achievement. You being a winner shows that you have put the effort needed into your site and have made it an asset to the www." Awarded: 16 February 2012

Vie's Inn of Wonders Award

Description: Tony Duthoo, a Belgian webmaster, co-founder and evaluator of the Belgica Excellence Index (BEI), and owner and rating program manager of UWSAG, operates Vie's Inn of Wonders Awards "to award those sites with not only outstanding looks and navigation, but more important, content that stimulates people to think about life and current situations in all its aspects..." "[T]he purpose of this program, goes into another direction than most award programs: not design, but content is on the main spot here. . . . The Internet is the perfect soil to let informative, useful, and reflective content grow and flourish. The vastness of the World Wide Web grants virtually no limits to the amount and type of content that can be added to it, and the size of the audience that it may reach. Vie's Inn of Wonders Award Program exists thus to reward those Webmasters who bring this kind of useful, interesting, touching, but mostly thought-provoking content to the world via their Web sites." Sites are evaluated on intellectual content, navigation, style, page layout and design, first impression and overall appearance, and user-friendliness. Rating: [ Award Sites! 5.0 | Belgica Founding Member | UWSAG 6.0 | WebsAwards 5 | WSAPTRONIC 6 ] Citation: "Congratulations!! After thoroughly reviewing your site, we, the Staff of Vie's Inn of Wonders Awards, have decided to grant you our Silver Award. You achieved a score of: 89/100. I very much enjoyed reading through your site. You have some interesting perspective on various topics. The thing I liked the most about your site is the fact that because you’re so radical, or better perhaps, open-hearted in your views you automatically force your readers to take a stance, to form an opinion. And that is exactly what a good content site is all about: to reflect on what is written. So the maximum amount of points for content, which does not happen often, is more than well deserved here! Keep up the good work and enjoy your award!" Awarded: 5 February 2012 Superseded: 28 February 2013 by Vie's Inn of Wonders Award: Gold

Time Award

Description: Lupércio Mundim, a Brazilian lawyer and webmaster, offers the Time Award to other webmasters and webmistresses so they may display their pride in the history and tradition of their sites. "[T]his badge draws the visitor's attention to the tradition and history of the website, showing its seriousness and longevity, because only the more serious works persist in internet." A site must have existed for at least five years and cite its creation date on the homepage. Citation: "The Time Award had the honor of accepting your website "Matt Wallace's The Compleat Heretic" as our honorable member and grant it our fourteen years online badges." Awarded: 13 January 2012

Poetic Soul Award

Description: Lupércio Mundim, a Brazilian lawyer and webmaster, offers the Poetic Soul Award to reward "website builders that have built a nice site on the web" and to recognize the efforts of "ordinary people, as [himself], just to express ourselves and showcase our work." Sites are evaluated on content, design, and navigation. Rating: [ Award Sites! 4.0 | AWARD 5.5 | UWSAG 2.0+ ] Citation: "The Poetic Soul Award Program has the honor and joy of granting to your website, Matt Wallace's The Compleat Heretic, our Silver award for its design, content and navigation. Congratulations!" Awarded: 31 December 2011 Superseded: 29 May 2012 by Poetic Soul Award: Silver [Award Sites! 4.5 | UWSAG 2.0+]

Moon Award

Description: Jenny Maass, also known as Die Mondfrau (The Moonlady), an Austrian webmistress and retired journalist, recognizes other webmistresses and webmasters with the Moon Award "as an honor for the untiring work [they] might do in designing a website: for its contents and its design. Additionally, it is a stimulus for [them] to develop and learn further, and not to lose [their] enthusiasm." Sites are evaluated on content, design, and navigation. Rating: [ Award Sites! 4.5 | AWARD 5.0 | Belgica 9.0 | UWSAG 3.0+ | WebsAwards 5 | WSAPTRONIC 6 ] Citation: "It's always a pleasure to visit your extraordinary site "Matt Wallace's The Compleat Heretic". You are unafraid of criticism or to meet with disapproval, you always stand by your opinion which is very different from most others of whom follow the beaten track. This outstanding website is worth to honor it with our MOON AWARD in GOLD. Congratulations and keep up your fine work!" Awarded: 10 April 2011 as an upgrade from Moon Award: Gold [Award Sites! 4.0 | AWARD 4.0 | Belgica 8.5 | UWSAG 2.0+ | WebsAwards 4 | WSAPTRONIC 5] Superseded: 31 May 2012 by Moon Award: Gold [Award Sites! 5.0 | AWARD 5.0 | Belgica 9.0 | UWSAG 3.0+ | WebsAwards 5 | WSAPTRONIC 6]

CLL Website Award

Description: Juhani Kerkkonen, a retired systems analyst from Helsinki, Finland and the webmaster of Conceptanalysis, Language and Logic, operates the CLL Website Awards Program to encourage "good mission and knowledge in Internet and Award communities by rewarding excellent web sites." Sites are evaluated on content, navigation, and design. Rating: [ Award Sites! 4.0 | AWARD 4.5 | Belgica 8.0 | UWSAG 4.0 | WebsAwards 4 ] Citation: "Congratulations! I'm pleased to announce, that your site "Matt Wallace's The Compleat Heretic" is a Silver Award winner (an upgrade) of my "CLL Website Awards". Also, thank you very much for inviting me to evaluate your excellent personal web site with so interesting, rich and versatile content and discussions of cultural conservatism, atheism, religions and several other human and social conducts, with cultural references from ancient times till modern age. Navigation is easy to use, relevant and exhaustive. Pages are proper-sized with high consistency. Backgrounds, fonts and graphics are well selected lending support to a harmonious whole. In its entirety your site, with several user-friendly features, is very pleasant to visit." Awarded: 13 March 2011 as an upgrade from CLL Website Award: Bronze

Pelaqita Persians Award

Description: Susan MacArthur, a Persian cat fancier and breeder from Pleasantville, Ohio, operates the Pelaqita Persians Award Program to recognize others for their contributions to the Internet. Sites are evaluated on content, purpose, design, layout, navigation, and impression. Rating: [ Award Sites! 3.5 | AWARD 4.0 | Belgica 8.5 | UWSAG 4.0 | WebsAwards 4 ] Citation: "Congratulations. Attached to this email is our "Gold" award. . . . Thank you very much for applying for our award and giving us the honor of evaluating your site. Laudation:   This site is the personal site of a former soldier, and self-described "economic and social conservative, Republican, Teamsters union member, moral traditionalist, pro-life, NRA Benefactor Life Member, Secular Humanist atheist" and the site explains/outlines his position on many of these areas and how he got there. While some may not agree with his views, he does have a right to them, freedom of speech, and the right to express them on a personal site. Through his prose, grammar, etc. this site reflects that the web master is highly educated and has arrived at his opinions through self-revelation, observing his surroundings (and mankind) and his own unique experiences. The site itself is easy to navigate, and while it is somewhat basic in design it is pleasing to the eye. The site meets all the criteria of our web program to be upgraded to a "Gold" award. Congratulations!" Awarded: 11 March 2011 as an upgrade from Pelaqita Persians Award: Bronze Superseded: 25 May 2012 by Pelaqita Persians Award: Gold [Award Sites! 3.5 | AWARD 4.0 | Belgica 9.5 | UWSAG 5.0 | WebsAwards 5]

Casey's Celtic Charm Award

Description: Wendy and David Russell, co-owners and cowebmasters of an educational site devoted to wirehaired fox terriers, Casey's Celtic Charm, operate an awards program that "is strongly motivated by [their] desire to highlight the 'Best of the Best' websites on the Internet. While there are an infinite number of websites on the Net, there are finite numbers that leave an overwhelming feeling of being awe struck by both the content and the structure of the site. The mission of Casey's Celtic Charm Awards Program is to recognize and bring attention to these exceptional sites which demonstrate a unique blend of knowledge and technology." Sites are evaluated on content, design and layout, navigation, and lasting impression. Rating: [ Award Sites! 5.0+ | WebsAwards 5 ] Citation: "Our evaluators have now completed the review of your site submission. We are extremely proud to present your site with the Casey's Celtic Charm Silver Award. Thank-you for giving us the opportunity to review your work, the visit was most inspiring. Your effort and dedication shine throughout your pages. You are truly deserving of our highest accolades, and for making the World Wide Web a much better and nicer place for us all to visit. . . . Thank-you for your interest in our Awards Program and Congratulations on such a fine web site." Awarded: 5 March 2011 as an upgrade from Casey's Celtic Charm Award: Bronze [Award Sites! 5.0]

Webmaster's Response:

I accept this award in memory of my family's wirehaired fox terrier, Angel, aka Pooners or Poonie Dog (1972-1986). She strayed into our lives when she was about six months old. The family who had owned her couldn't deal with such a "lively" and "energetic" puppy. Soon after we took her in, we realized just how truly "special" she was when we came home one day and found the recliner over six feet out of place. Angel had dragged this heavy piece of furniture across a carpeted floor by the flap on the footrest and obviously had stopped only when her haunches hit the hearth! Though she had shredded the flap in the process, no one in our family was angry with her; we all marvelled at the strength and tenacity of this young little dog. She always loved to play tug-of-war with a length of rope or an old towel; she usually won because once she clamped on, she would not let go! Until the final year of her life when she went blind, she never tired of chasing down an old tennis ball, inside or out. She was a smart, affectionate, loyal, tough, fearless, and feisty member of our family; she fit right in. I still miss her; she was such a great dog...

— Matt Wallace, aka The Compleat Heretic

Antique Collector Best Site Award

Description: Philip Chave of Antique Collector, an online bookstore of "antique and specialist books by UK and world authors," awards web sites to recognize webmasters for their "effort and time," "flair for design," "eye for detail," and "knowledge" used "to create and maintain [their] site." Sites are evaluated on content, load time, ease of navigation, graphic quality, page layout and design. Citation: "Congratulations on a really great website! I am more than pleased to offer you the Antique Collector Award. . . . My very best regards and your continued online success, Phil" Awarded: 9 February 2011

Alaska Adventures World Class Website Award

Description: Alaska Adventures, a fly fishing and wilderness expedition company located in Katmai National Park, recognizes the work of other webmasters with their award. Sites are evaluated on concept, design, layout, content, and navigation. Citation: "After carefully reviewing your site, we would like to honor you with Alaska Adventures' World Class Website Award for surpassing our criteria of excellence in concept, design, layout, rich content and easy navigation. ... We have added your site to our awardees database. ... We acknowledge the effort you have put into your website; the time, hours and countless obstacles. Display your award with pride! Congratulations on producing a site of excellence." Awarded: 8 January 2010

Web Geni Excellent Content Award

Description: The "Web Geni Excellent Content Award is presented to those sites whose content provides useful, instructive information, shows superior design and has achieved levels of excellence deserving of recognition." It is a free service of WebSiteTrafficBuilders/Promotions Unlimited which offers search engine optimization software and other web services. Citation: "Congratulations! Your website has been reviewed and will receive the Excellent Content Award." Awarded: 18 December 2009