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

Web Masters Ink Web Site Award

Description: Web Masters Ink, a web design firm in Aberdeen, Washington, honors other webmasters with its award. Citation: "We would love to review your noteworthy Web site and honor you with our award, plus have your site appear on our Web Site Awards page. This could very well be your ticket to fortune and fame. You may be our next number one site." Awarded: 16 December 2009

Annie's Treasure Box Award

Description: Annie, a "busy housewife, mother, and Nanna," offers her Treasure Box Award "to (almost) EVERYONE that has put effort into creating a website" to recognize their "time and heart-felt energy" in doing so. Sites that are adult-oriented (sexual), racist, violent, religiously offensive, or commercial are excluded. Citation: "You are welcome to go ahead and take my Award, but I have a few stipulations..." Awarded: 15 December 2009

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. [Award Sites! Rating: 3.5] Citation: "Thanks again for your kind application for my humble award. In the meantime I revisited your site and checked it out several times - and again, I enjoyed it very much. Now the ranking for your site is fixed. Congratulations: score 90 at the first shot - this means Silver!!! Personality (30%) 25, Content (20%) 18, Design (30%) 20, Quality/Function (10%) 10, Added Value (10%) 8, Originality (10%) 7, Subjectivity (±10%) 2, Total 90 I've seen some improvements and more content which leads to an increase of points, however it's still in the range of Silver. The Compleat Heretic is an interesting website with many insights into autobiography, publications, affiliations, gratifications, irritations, photo album and much more. Just come on in, it's worth a visit and a stay! Keep on with your good work and enjoy the award!" Reawarded: 13 July 2009 Awarded: 2 July 2005

Diskus Award

Description: Dieter Schneider, a Swiss living in France, operates the Diskus Award Program to reward webmasters and webmistresses for their creativity and talent in design and content used in expressing themselves through their web sites. Sites are evaluated on design, presentation, content, navigation, and programming. Citation: "Hello Matt, thank you for inviting us to review your website 'Matt Wallace's The Compleat Heretic.' We found an outstanding and interesting site with a great design, an easy navigation, and we found an incredible abundance of stories and philosophical critique. You don't mince your words and therefore we suppose there are people who hate you like poison. This all makes your site an extremely rare and important part of the internet. We decided to reward your site with our highest Award, the DISKUS AWARD in GOLD ID.118. Congratulations and keep on your 'heretic work.' Diskus Award Program Team 19.04.09 Burgund / France" Awarded: 19 April 2009

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. [Award Sites! Rating: 4.0] Citation: "Hi Matt, thank you for inviting us to review your website Matt Wallace's The Compleat Heretic. We see your efforts to improve your website. Design & Navigation are perfect. Your texts have always been very interesting and sometimes provocative. We are very pleased to reward your site with an upgrade to the MOON AWARD in Gold." Awarded: 3 April 2009 as an upgrade from Moon Award: Silver [Award Sites! Rating: 3.0]

Pondering Award

Description: Kent Oldham, erstwhile webmaster of The Pondering Page, a site dedicated to "Quotes, Questions, Brain Teasers And Randomly Strange Things To Ponder...." which was last updated on 6 September 2004, offers this award to other webmasters. Citation: "Well, we are now on the honor system. If you think you REALLY deserve it, it is yours for the taking. Otherwise... Don't touch! Good luck and be honest... KDO" Awarded: 1 April 2009

Webmaster's Response:

Hmmmm, "Randomly Strange Things To Ponder"? Indeed....

-- Matt Wallace, aka The Compleat Heretic

Timelines Award of Excellence

Description: Friedrich Hornischer, a German webmaster, presents his Timelines Awards "to honor webmasters who present new ideas and new aspects of possiblities to manage life in the coming decades." Sites are evaluated on content, design, presentation, and coding. [Award Sites! Rating: 4.5] Citation: "Thank you for your interest in Timelines Award Program and inviting me to visit your site. I enjoyed surfing through your sites. Congratulations, your site „Matt Wallace's The Compleat Heretic“ has earned 72 points- this means Timelines Silver Award. Silver Award of Excellence winners have interesting content and excellent design, although some work could be done either in design, content or coding to reach gold." Awarded: 24 March 2009 as an upgrade from Timelines Award of Excellence [Award Sites! Rating: 3.0]

Gadzillion Award

Description: A Gadzillion Things To Think About offers this award "to recognize websites that not only provide its viewers with content that is entertaining or informing, but more importantly, inspire creative thought." Sites are evaluated on content, presentation, design, and inspiration of creative thought. [Award Sites! Rating: 3.5] Citation: "Congratulations! I enjoyed visiting your site. It is truly a plus for the Internet and consequently I would like to reward your efforts with the Gadzillion Award For Creative Thought on the Internet." Awarded: 22 March 2009

NEOVIZION Web Site Award (2009)

Description: NEOVIZION, Inc., a web design company, offers the NEOVIZION Web Site Award "to recognize the outstanding achievements in web site design and graphic user interface design by various companies and individuals that continue to help mold the web experience for others to enjoy." Sites are evaluated on design, layout, graphics, download speed, navigation, browser compatibility, technology, and originality. Citation: "We enjoyed reviewing your website. We are presenting you with the Bronze Award. Thank you from the NEOVIZION, Inc. review department." Awarded: 21 March 2009

Art Space 2000 World Web Award of Excellence (2009-2010)

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, service, purpose, and ease of navigation. Citation: "Congratulations you have won the "World Web Award of Excellence" for creativity, overall design and appearance, service you provide, purpose for your site, 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: 9 March 2009