Aloha Award

Description: Hawaii City presents awards to "web sites that show excellence" and are "informative and unique." Sites are evaluated on ease of navigation, content, and design. Citation: "All of us agreed that you truly do have an interesting web site with quality content and design. The Aloha Award is not an easy award to win. That is why this award is seen so infrequently. ... Proudly display the Aloha Award to let others know that your Web site is informative, unique and has won this prestigious award. Congratulations and Aloha." Awarded: 15 March 2005

Not Boring Site Award

Description: The Not Boring Site Award is for webmasters who "have a web page and have spent/spend a good amount of time and effort working on it." Citation: "The webmaster of [this site] has worked very hard on his/her page and that is the reason he/she has recieved ... [the] Not Boring Site Award. We at notboring.com applaud the excellent work that the webmasters out there are doing and recognize the time and effort that is put into their pages, and have awarded them with the prestigious ... Not Boring Site Award." Awarded: 12 March 2005

IAA Gold Medal Web Award of Excellence

Description: International Artists and Artisans, a division of Art Space 2000, recognizes webmasters with this award. Sites are evaluated on design, creativity, and content. Citation: "Congratulations from all the staff at Art Space 2000.com. You have won the "Gold Medal Web Award of Excellence" for originality, overall design and appearance, ease of navigation, and content. Keep up the good work." Awarded: 7 March 2005

Art Space 2000 World Web Award of Excellence (2005-2006)

Description: Art Space 2000, an online art gallery, rewards "creativity, integrity and excellence on the web" with this award. Sites are evaluated on originality, design, appearance, navigation, and purpose. Citation: "Congratulations from all the staff at Art Space 2000.com. You have won the "World Web Award of Excellence" for originality, overall design and appearance, ease of navigation, and content. Keep up the good work. ... You have obviously worked very hard. Investing your time, and skills into making a great web site." "Each day we receive hundreds of submissions for our web award. Approximately three out of every ten sites win our web award, so you are in a very small group of outstanding web designers. It is always refreshing to visit a site as well done as yours." Awarded: 7 March 2005

Biomutation Site of the Day Award

Description: BioALIEN, a British digital artist and web designer, recognizes other webmasters and their sites with this award. Citation: "CONGRATULATIONS! Your site has been reviewed, and chosen to receive the Biomutation - Site of the Day Award! We are excited to see the creativity that you possess, your elegant and skilful presentation of unique content ensures your status as a creative visionary. The following wildly recognized award is an amazing way to market your site - and have it featured at Biomutation.GfxDiary.com, a site visited by thousands, and is seen by thousands of those viewers every day! Your site has been reviewed, and rated upon the basis of originality, creativity, design, and content." "Thanks again for your participation in this program, and for affording me the opportunity to evaluate your excellent website. On behalf of Biomutation.GfxDiary.com and our whole team - we would like to sincerely congratulate you on your accomplishments. You should be as proud of yourself, as we are of having designers like you on the web." Awarded: 3 March 2005

Miller Communications Group Personal Site Award

Description: Miller Communications Group, formerly Nu-Horizons Design Studio, a Canadian web site development firm, offers numerous specialized awards to webmasters in recognition for "the time, imagination, artistic creativity and endless dedication in the development and growth of their site(s)." The Personal Site Award honors webmasters who create sites "dedicated to 'personal' family environment, family events, reunions, and 'fun'" which also includes "personal web site[s]" developed "for personal reasons." Citation: "We thank you for inviting us to visit your home on the Internet. We applaud your site's ease of navigation, obvious hard work, and unique content. It is with great pleasure that we give you the Personal Site Award." Awarded: 2 March 2005

Golden Web Award (2003-2004)

Description: The Golden Web Award is presented by the International Association of Web Masters and Designers "to those sites whose web design, originality and content have achieved levels of excellence deserving of recognition." Citation: "Congratulations! Matt Wallace's The Compleat Heretic has been reviewed and chosen to bear the 2003-2004 Golden Web Award." Awarded: 20 August 2003

Netstore TOP 100% Award

Description: "Got no friends? Got no fun? Does your web site look boring? But not any longer! Vote for your web site and get the most wanted »TOP 100% Award« from Netstore! With this award you show to the whole world how popular your kewl site is. Netstore is proud to sponsor the first Top 100% Award to recognize the amazing creative work of the WWW pioneers." Citation: "Congratulations! www.CompleatHeretic.com has just been awarded as one of the TOP 100% of all web sites! Your registration no. is 1588. You earn the right to wear the TOP 100% badge on your homepage." Awarded: 17 August 2003

Majon's Web Select Award and Majon's Seal of Excellence Award

Description: Majon International, an Internet marketing services company, offers two awards as "a recognition service to further develop and encourage creativity, quality design and usefulness in purpose for Web site owners and creators" who produce "web sites which exhibit intuition, graceful design, usefulness in information and/or reliable business services." The "Web Select Award" is Majon's "most prestigious award" and is awarded to "outstanding web sites that rise above the rest in content, design and usability." The "Seal of Excellence Award" is given to any web site which "is well worth visiting and is considered to be outstanding in its presentation." Citation: "Recently we enjoyed a very pleasant visit to your web site! It is with great pride that we announce that your web site is a WINNER of our esteemed Majon Web Select Award" Awarded: 17 August 2003

Canada Graphics Gold Award

Description: Canada Graphics, a Toronto, Ontario, Canada web design and internet services firm, recognizes "web designers, web developers, web masters and web programmers" for the purpose of "raising the standard of excellence for the web design industry and to get web designers, developers... closer to each other for new ideas, updates, technology, and to encourage better web design." Sites are evaluated on content, design, graphics, navigation, load time, and browser compatibility. Citation: "Your web-site has been reviewed. Your site qualifies for Canada Graphics (excellence of design) Gold Award 2003. Congratulations on a job well done." Awarded: 17 August 2003

Zeal of Approval Against Religious Zealots Award

Description: This award is presented by BoJo A-Go-Go, "a look inside the wacky world of Bob Jones University," to recognize any "website that (1) opposes religious extremism, intolerance, or abuse, or (2) advocates religious tolerance, freethought, or individual conscience." Citation: "Aren't you lucky, though? You've been awarded the "Zeal of Approval" against religious zealots." Awarded: 20 April 2001 Note: As of 28 February 2005, BoJo A-Go-Go appears to be a-gone-gone though its domain, nobojo.com, is still registered with Network Solutions.

"Damn! That's a Good Site!" Award

Description: This award, presented by Right Magazine, a conservative e-zine, "is one of the few awards out on the Internet that has no real criteria for winning other than being a smashing good Internet page." Citation: "You have won the "Damn! That's a Good Site!" award for having a most excellent web page!" Awarded: 11 December 1998 Note: Right Magazine was first at sgtbbq.com, then rightmagazine.com, but neither is currently working, and only the latter is still registered with Network Solutions.