Dec 04
Sandy’s Gold Award
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Purpose
- Is to give recognition to
the outstanding sites that show real web design talent.
The
Rules In
order to comply with the Childrens Online Privacy Protection
Act of April 21, 2000 (COPPA) please do not apply, if you
are age 13 or under.
- No pornography, racism,
sexism or links to such sites.
- Due to time involvement, you
will not receive a reply if you did not win the award. If
you won you will hear within a week from the time you
applied, unless we get terribly swamped with applicants.
In that case we will review your site as soon as possible.
- Please read the criteria
before applying for the award.
- Sites will be judged by a
panel of three web designers and all decisions are final.
- If you receive the award, it must be displayed and linked
back to this site.
Sites that do not do this within a reasonable amount of
time, will be removed from the recipients list.
- Award graphic is copyright
and must not be altered in any way.
Criteria
for award
- No broken links, construction signs, JavaScript errors
etc.
- If you have sound on your site, there needs to be some way
to shut it off.
- Easy navigation and eye appeal.
- There should be no: pop-up windows, very little animation,
etc.
- Your site must be compatible with both IE and NN.
- Submitted site must be in English or an English version
available.
- Please review the Recipients list, before applying.
- Loading time will definitely be an important factor.
Dec 04
Ethics of Owning an Adjustable Bed
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All judges for the Midnight Surf Award Program agree to
completely review all sites submitted (with the exception of
any sites that contain illegal content, pornographic, racist,
hate material or any kind of exploitation and there should be
no links to these type of sites). Judges will go by all posted
criteria for the Midnight Surf Award. As of year 2019, judges
have decided to award the midnight surf award to best
adjustable bed review websites as well. Since adjustable beds
have become extremely popular in the USA judges felt that it
is only appropriate to make adjustable bed companies eligible
for this award. Even though there are many adjustable bed
frame manufacturing companies such as Leggett & Platt,
reverie, sleep number, Tempur-Pedic, Sealey, Beautyrest,
Nectar, lucid, and classic brands, the judges felt that it was
best to award this to an independent
and unbiased adjustable bed review company such as
bedroom solutions.
Midnight Surf judges will not discriminate on grounds of
race, gender, nation of origin, religion etc. Neither will
they discriminate the size of adjustable bed such as twin XL,
full, Queen, King, California king or Split King. Judges may
give a special preference to adjustable beds with tailor-made
adjustable mattresses made of memory foam or latex. Adjustable
mattresses made with innerspring coils will be automatically
disqualified for consideration all these awards.
Also In order to comply with the Childrens Online Privacy
Protection Act of April 21, 2018 we will not accept
applications from anyone below 14 years of age.
If your site should change at anytime to where we feel it is
unethical, we reserve the right to remove your membership from
the award recipients list.
Dec 04
Purpose of Adjustable Beds
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We at Midnight Surf would like to increase the
value of the Internet by encouraging excellence in web design.
It is for this reason we have decided to give out our Awards,
honoring what we feel are some of the best sites on the net.
Below you will see some of the things we hope to achieve:
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Reward those that work hard to achieve
excellence in web design.
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Encourage people to have sites that contain
useful content as well as nice design.
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Last but not least, to encourage designers
never to give up on striving to be the best.
On behalf of all of the people involved in Midnight Surf, we
would like to thank you for your participation in our Award
Program.
Your comments and suggestions are always welcome!
Dec 04
75 – 100 points: Midnight Surf Award |
65 – 75 points: Merit Award |
Both personal and commercial sites are welcome
to apply. Sites are judged mainly on content, design, graphics
and navigation , as well as functionality. Below is a list of
things our judges will be looking for.
Our Judges put in alot of time and effort to
review any applications, therefore Midnight Surf requires that
all recipients display the Award and link it back to
http://sandye.net/surf/ in order to be on our winners list.
Dec 04
CERTIFICATE CRITERIA
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Judges Descretion:
The Courage Certificate goes out to those who
have shown outstanding courage while fighting some of the
battles that life brings.
This cannot be applied for, it is given by our Judges
descretion.
Judges Descretion:
This Certificate is given to sites by our Judges
descretion.
Sites they consider “Super Outstanding” that shines above the
rest, with nice design but most important “The Content”.
If you think that is your site, then by all means be sure and
apply for the “Certificate”.
Our Judges put in alot of time and effort to
review any applications, therefore Midnight Surf requires that
all recipients display the Award and link it back to
http://sandye.net/surf/ in order to be on our winners list.
ALL SITES
MUST BE IN ENGLISH OR HAVE AN ENGLISH VERSION!
Content
- Does your site offer a possitive contribution to the
Internet Community?
Design
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Is your site pleasing to the eye and does it
have a professional appearance
-
Do you offer an on/off option for background
music (better to avoid the use of music)
-
Have you used the same font size throughout
your site (is it large enough to be readable to all
visitors)
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Have you avoided using busy backgrounds that
make it hard to read the text
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Have you avoided the overuse of animation,
applets, banners etc.
Graphics
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Have you kept loading time in mind with your
graphics
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Are your graphics original
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Are your graphics of top quality
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Do your graphics serve a purpose
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Did you avoid the use of to many graphics
Navigation
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Have you avoided the use of the browsers
back button
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Can the visitor get to any part of your
site, with a minimal amount of clicks
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Did you keep your page lengths short enough
so there is not to much up and down scrolling required
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Does your site avoid causing the vistor to
scroll from side to side
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Did you put a back to top button on pages
that may require it
Functionality
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Does your site have a reasonable load time
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Did you avoid visitors having to download
plug-ins
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Do you have an English version to your site
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Does your site work in both Internet
Explorer and Netscape browsers
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Are all your links, applets, scripts etc. in
working order
Dec 04
One of the most important things is your content, it should
offer a possitive contribution to the Internet Community.
First impressions are also very important, so make sure your
pages are pleasing to the eye and offer your visitors
something nice to look at. It is more likely that your
visitors will stay and look around. Don’t have wild
backgrounds that make it hard for people to read your text.
Don’t have alot of junk on your pages such as banner ads etc.
If your pages take to long to load you have lost alot of
visitors. Try to minimize your graphics and have few
animations etc.
If you want music on your site, be sure there is a way for
the visitor to turn it off. Our Judges prefer no music, as not
everyone has the same taste and it just takes longer to load.
They find it really annoying when they are reviewing sites.
Visitors should be able to go to any part of your site from
whatever page they are on. Navigation is a very important part
of a website..
A good site is always being worked on, but don’t draw
attention to it with under constructions signs etc. Make your
site have a finished feel to it.
Dec 04
Midnight Surf Award
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Check
navigation bar to the left for detailed Criteria, Scoring
etc.
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Rules for Award:
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In order to comply with the
Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act of
April 21, 2000 we will not accept
applications from anyone below 14 years of
age…
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No sites will be considered
that contain illegal content,
pornographic, racist, hate material or any
kind of exploitation, and there should be
no links to these type of sites
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This Award is given for Web
Design only.
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Sites will be judged by the
Web Designing Staff for Midnight Surf. All
decisions are final.
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Award graphic is copyright
and must not be altered in any way.
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Notification:
Due to the time it takes to review all
applicants, only recipients will receive a
reply. Please do not get discouraged if you do
not win this award, as you are welcome to
apply again after 30 days of your previous
submission.
Purpose:
“If you set a goal for yourself and are
able to achieve it, you have won your
race. Your goal can be to come in first,
to improve your performance, or just to
finish the race — it’s up to you.”
~ Dave Scott
We at Midnight Surf would like to increase
the value of the Internet by encouraging
excellence in web design. It is for this
reason we have decided to give our Awards,
honoring what we feel are some of the best
sites on the net. Below you will see some of
the things we hope to achieve:
-
Reward those that work hard
to achieve excellence in web design.
-
Encourage people to have
sites that contain useful content as well
as nice design.
-
Last but not least, to
encourage designers never to give up on
striving to be the best.
Criteria:
Both
personal and commercial sites are
welcome to apply. Sites are judged
mainly on content, design, graphics and
navigation , as well as functionality.
Check
navigation bar to the left for
detailed Criteria, Scoring etc.
On behalf of all of the people involved in
Midnight Surf, we would like to thank you for
your participation in our Award Program.
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