Web Design Awards

Stevie is a Greek word which means "crowned". It is an affiliate of R.S. Owens, the makers the prestigious Emmy, Clio, and Oscar Awards. Stevie Awards is generally based on the purpose of recognizing the accomplishments, contributions and efforts of business people and companies around the world. The award body has many categories honoring companies, individuals, media, teams, products and websites. The trophy of Stevie is sixteen inches tall in a crystal pyramid that represents the hierarchy of human needs.

This 2006, the recognition for best websites is already included in the Stevie Awards. How do you make your website a participant? First, you must have access on the website of Stevie, then, you click the "Enter" on the navigation bar and the registration link must be followed. Second, you must complete the form for registration and click the button for add nominations. Third, you must select a category. For example, your category is website awards, you click the Web Sites. Fourth, you complete and save the entry form for the Web site category. Finally, when you completed filling out the form for your entries, you must click on check boxes and click the button of Selected Nominations.

The deadline for registration will be on April 30. You better submit now and receive the recognition award for your website. It is an advantage that your website received a certain web awards to make your website honorable, prestigious and reliable.

This web award institution was created by the Interactive Media Council Incorporated to recognize the best, quality and excellent participating websites in the world. It is an organization of developers, designers, programmers and advertisers. It is a non-profitable organization founded to create an excellent standard in the Internet and provide marketing exposure for the winner.

What are the advantages of winning this award? Winning this award is not easy because your site will be evaluated by group of professionals, will undergo comprehensive judging and the competition is very stiff. But, if your site wins, your site will have the honor, respect and recognition of the whole internet community. The website will have a great chance for success. You can proudly tell the whole world that you're the best website among the rest. By winning, your business has already an edge, compared to non-winning website.

The award body also offers access to winning tools that will help you advertise and market your website. There is no discrimination no matter how small or big the site is. The award is open to all websites as long as it meets the qualification standard of IMA. Best of all, the reputation of a winning website is unquestionable.

I know of a college student and my course requires a lot of research work. Sometimes, she uses books as sources, but, most of the time she searches on the internet. When she gets some information in the internet, I am always afraid that she might be getting wrong information. I told her to keep on asking friends what the best websites are today. But, how do you really make sure?

If singers are awarded platinum and gold awards for their bestselling songs and albums and if books are cited as the best source of particular information, is there an award for the best websites in the world? I asked her this, and with this question lingering in her mind, she hurriedly went to a nearby internet cafe and looked for the awards given to the websites considered as the best in quality and reliability. I found out that there are numerous awards for the website, too! Some of the famous awards are the Webby Awards, World Wide Web Awards, and the American Association of Webmasters Awards.

Now, we know what websites we must surf to ensure the quality of my research papers. Thank you to some of these award institutions for launching website awards. Now my friend can ask her friends, "Does your website have a reputation for being the best website in the world? Are you sure you're not getting wrong information from the net?"

On February 10, 2002, the American Association of Webmasters was founded. It was founded by the Chief Executive Officer Donna Snyder. Soon after its foundation, the association launched its website. Right after its foundation, the site received numerous awards like Top Site Award.

Following the honor, the AAWM award was created for designers and webmasters who worked hard in order to create quality websites. The main purpose of AAWM is to recognize and acknowledge best website. Winning the award will be based on content, creativity, and style. It is also to recognize the contribution of the quality websites in the Internet industry.

The award association invites and accepts site applicants in the United States of America or other international website groups outside the USA. Many benefits are being offered by the AAWM like the chance of the winning site to meet the evaluators and have the websites reviewed by the Professional Webmaster Committee. Also, a good reputation of the website will be established. The 2006 Web award nomination of the association is now officially open. In December 2006, the winners will be announced.

The 21st century witnessed the most number of advanced technological changes. One of these changes is the use of websites which are database driven. Web designing covers every endeavor, including wed design awards.

These are numerous web design awards. But, be very wary because some of these awards may be fictitious and only exist for their own selfish motives and desires. They are not there to further enhance and promote web designing and its importance.

The CPSnet Web Awards is an exception. This body had their humble beginnings in June 2001. From that time on, they have never ceased to make better the web designing job, making it truly pleasurable yet challenging. In 2002, the CPSnet Awards were redefined, paving the way for such special awards given to deserving web designers. Several upgrades were undertaken in the year 2003 regarding standards and matters like accessibility which was finally initiated in 2004. The following year, things really got better. It was like their golden year. They have reaffirmed their goals to maintain high standard, and upgraded accessibility and usability as well. Earning one of CPSnet Web Awards clearly indicates great quality of work on the part of the designer. The award is indeed such an honor and inspires a designer to further hone his craft in web designing.

The Webby Awards is considered to be the Oscars of the international web design industry. Presented annually by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, the Webby's are awarded to individuals who embody excellence in creative web design.

The awards has been presented since 1996. The Webby's evaluate nominations and decide the winner in six areas: functionality, visual design, structure and navigation, content, and overall experience. Recently, the Academy has included a second set of awards for sites who had garnered the most number of popular votes.

The World Wide Web Awards (WWWA) is one of the most difficult awards to win on the web according to Donna Snyder, Chief Executive Officer of World Wide Web Awards. The WWWA has a rating system of Platinum, Gold, Silver and Bronze.

The highly rated award isn't handed out to every applicant, all criteria must be before you earn yourself an award. The WWWA will reward the awardees with real-life certificates, engraved plaques and trophis as proof of excellence. Winners get permanent listing on the WWWA website with the first page ranking in top search engines under the keyword "web awards".

The Webby Awards is an annual international award presented by the 500 member-strong International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences to celebrate the best in creative web design and functionality.

The award was conceptualized in 1996, the same time the Web globally matured.

It honors excellence in more than sixty categories. Each category will have five nominees selected through a screening criteria overseen by accounting company PriceWaterhouseCoopers. From each category, one web site will be declared the winner. The winning site's designer will receive a specially crafted statuette.

The public can also add their voice to the awards process by helping the Academy decide which site will win the People's Voice and Webby Worthy Awards.

The World Wide Web Awards for 2006 have officially been opened. The highest honor to be bestowed upon is the much coveted "Webmaster of the Year Award." Interested parties have twelve months to send their nominations before the deadline on December 2006.

The World Wide Web Award is given by the World Wide Web Association to acknowledge the creativity and content of the best web sites in the vast space of the Internet. Also, one of the great aims of the award is to recognize the contribution of web designers to the Internet global community.

The Award will also give opportunity to webmasters and designers to enhance their wares and craft with the latest resources in web designing.