Tips on Winning Web Awards...

There are lots, of award programs out there, for the webmaster who wishes recognition, for his or hers, hard and time consuming work, whether you wish to win our awards or not, these tip below will hopefully help you on your way to achieving your goal.

First of all why do you what to win awards?

If you just won't a cool looking award to show off with, there are several, awards out there that are yours for the asking, they don't even visit your site, all they ask is you link it back, to them.

But if you’re serous about your site and want to improve it, then you'll want to apply for serious awards. They are difficult to win but with hard work on your part you can, wining these awards really mean something, that you can be proud of.

Is your site reedy to be evaluated.

Double check your spelling and grammar and punctuation on every page, a lot of award programs are very strict about this, I do not check for this my self as I have a learning disability called Dyslexia, but I can read. Have you checked your site in more than one browser and resolution, do all links work, do you have any missing graphics. Make shore you check all these, be assured they will be, by the award sites and you will lose points or even some will disqualify your site, if it’s that bad. Background music, have you a way of turning it off, do you rely need it, did you know it slows your download time on pages. Do not use profanity, not only dose it show your mentality, it's offensive to most people and I certainly would not like my son to see it, I have seen many sites full of it, that I have evaluated and promptly disqualified them as will most serious award programs. Do you have copyrighted text or graphics, which do not belong to you, do you have permission to use them, and have you give them credit for their work. Most serious award programs will check for this and will tack a very dim view if they find anything that is not yours and you don't give proper credit for it.

Read the criteria of the award before you apply.

This is a must, not only so you know exactly what the program owner is looking for, you mite not even qualify for their award i.e. they may only evaluate sites that have personal, commercial, specific language or a particular them. Also some programs have hidden passwords you need to add to you application this is to inshore you have read it, so you or the owner does not waste each others time. I strongly recommend that you do so, it's not a lot to ask for in return for our time and dedication we put into our Award Programs, most owners will disqualify you site if you are fund not to have read it.

Thank the webmaster for your award.

Besides being a courteous thing to do, it's mark of respect for the time it takes to evaluate your site, remember we don't charge you for this serves, we give up our spare time to help you improve your site, also we have know way of knowing that you have received your award, if you don't replay to our e-mail.

Don't be disappointed.

Please don't fill that you've failed if you don't receive an award, it doesn't mean that you have a bad site just mans you need to do some more work on it, consider the experience as a step forward to achieving the site of your dreams. Each application you make will give you the knowledge and experience; you need to achieve your goals.

Well I hope this helps you in some way, good luck in achieving your goals.

The tips are just my opinion, of course I can't speak for other owners, but I feel most would agree with me.