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Welcome to the book-look "Awards of
Excellence". We offer 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.
With effect from 1 January 2005, the book-look
"Awards of Excellence" will only be awarded to
sites relating to the Arts and Literature.
Please also note that, in general, sites for commercial
businesses will be marked much more aggressively than other sites as the
aim of these awards is to acknowledge the hard work of Web site developers -
not how much was spent on the site or how much it sells. |
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Sites are judged based on ease of navigation, content, graphic
quality, page layout and design by book-look's award team. Full details are
available on our Award Criteria
page.
These awards are not given to every site that applies (the awards
are currently rated at Level 3.0 by
Award Sites!) - winning
them is not an easy task and should not be taken lightly.
To give you an idea of the high standards that we set, detailed
below are the number of Awards that have been given since the book-look
"Awards of Excellence" scheme was launched (as at
14/10/08):
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Awards Given |
"Spot On" |
"Top Spot" |
"Hot Spot" |
None |
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Total Number |
30 |
121 |
159 |
502 |
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Percentage |
4% |
15% |
20% |
62% |
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Important conditions
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The site must be a virtual domain
eg.
http://www.yourdomain.com - Sites hosted by free services come and go in some
cases faster than they can be reviewed. |
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The site must be in English
Unfortunately we are
unable to review sites that are not in English or do not have a built in method
of translation. |
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The award must be linked back
Winning sites will
be required to e-mail us with the URL where the award is displayed before being
added to the winners list. Sites should also have a clear route to their awards
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Is your Web site ready?
Due to the number of award submissions that we receive, please be
sure that your site is ready before applying. All sites submitted to us are
visited, but any that are deemed to be "under construction" will not be
reviewed!
What is not acceptable
A site containing:
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pornography, racist comments, incitement to violence, foul
language, or content unsuitable for children |
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a jumble of unrelated content, broken images, or links that
do not work |
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pages that do not give proper credit where credit is
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What to do next...
You may submit your site by
e-mail.
Be sure to include your name, e-mail address, Web site name and URL, and a
brief description.
If your site is chosen to win an award you will be notified by
e-mail. Non winning sites will not be notified and may resubmit after 90 days,
although significant improvements should be made prior to you re-submitting
your site.
Award winners must link the award back to www.book-look.co.uk.
Once verified, a text link will then be added to the "Awards of Excellence"
winners list. |
