Win the STELIART Award of Excellence

The Purpose of the Program

The purpose of the Steliart Award Program is to evaluate websites based on their overall web design and award them for their excellence in website creation.

This Award Program is looking to attract designers in general that have gone beyond the standards of web design excellence. This is a difficult competition among excellent sites
that are at the top of the net and at the leading edge of website design.

Our criteria for granting these awards are based on web design practices. The Steliart Productions Awards of Excellence are among the Greatest of the Web Site Awards and are very difficult to win.

Winners of the Steliart Awards of Excellence will be notified by e-mail and be listed in the Winners List. We only ask that the awarded sites include our URL and have their Steliart Productions Award of Excellence linked back to us at: http://www.steliart.com

Before applying for a Steliart Award of Excellence make sure that you have read our Criteria of Evaluation listed below.

Sites that have not succeed in winning a Steliart Award of Excellence, but have still reflect
a good website - may be granted the Steliart Cool Award.
Sites granted the Steliart Cool Award may re-submit to this Award Program after they have further developed their site, but a 2 month period is required after the date of their initial submission.

Our Point System for winning these prestigious Awards is based on a 100 point factor divided within our 20 criteria of evaluation.

                                           GOLD AWARD 95 - 100 points
                                        SILVER AWARD 85 - 94   points
                                      BRONZE AWARD 75 - 84   points
                                           COOL AWARD 60 - 74   points

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Site Functionality
Downloading Speed .......................................................
Sites with screen size over 800X600 and large scrolling bars..
Redirections .................................................................
HTML Quality
Clean HTML (no faulty code) ...........................................
Workability of java, rollovers, applets etc. .........................
Navigation & Links
Easy and clear Navigation ..............................................
Lack of weird plug-in requirements ...................................
Broken links in your own graphics that don't load or music ....
Design & Graphic's Originality
Originality in Design .......................................................
Graphic's Originality .......................................................
Beauty & Aesthetics
Site attractiveness and fun ............................................
Professional Appearance ................................................
Color Balance and harmonies ...........................................
Integration & Technology
Audio-Visual Synchronization or Sound-Page harmony ..........
Effective use of leading edge technologies-(dhtml, flash etc.)
Layout & Alignment
Balanced presentation of Text and Images ........................
General layout and page space usage ...............................
Pages with large gaps of nothing or big blank spaces ...........
Content & Text
Original or unique content ..............................................
Good Spelling ...............................................................

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Foreign language sites are to be evaluated in the overall design and layout not actual topic, content or items. Steliart Productions accepts no responsibility for the actual content of a site in a foreign language.

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Failed to have Good Moral Ethics (If child pornography or child abuse is spotted, will immediately be reported without exceptions to the authorities).
Sites without separate Awards Page, easy to find
Under Construction or part Under Construction sites
Sites that do not work in both I.E. and Netscape browsers
Sites with just links to other sites having nothing more than that.
Sites with less than 3 pages can only win the Cool Award.
Sites that have incorrectly submitted their URL or E-mail address