Welcome to the CPSnet Web Awards!
Important notice: applications for the CPSnet Web Awards are closed until 2005-03-25 due to site maintenance and large number of applications received. Pending reviews will be completed in the meantime. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have cause you and Thank You for your understanding!
The objective of this award program is to reward the work of those webmasters (and site owners and authors) who strive to build a better Internet, those persons that, by giving their best, most of the time for nothing in return except the personal satisfaction of an excellent work done, will allow us to, among so many other things, continue using the web for our personal development, our children's and our own education and to attain a better quality of life as well as a new level of knowledge and consciousness.
We express our sincere gratitude to these persons with our awards: Thank you for your work towards a better Internet and Mankind...
"One of the saddest lines in the world is, 'Oh come now - be realistic.' The best parts of this world were not fashioned by those who were realistic. They were fashioned by those who dared to look hard at their wishes and gave them horses to ride." - Richard Nelson Bolles
Technically, our awards have the sole purpose of rewarding outstanding, flawless and sound web design as well as excellence in content, in its educational, cultural, scientific and recreational intention.
The evaluation of a web site is certainly not an exact science. Individual preferences and user experiences play a role in the appreciation. Also, specific evaluation criteria must always be considered in terms of how it relates to the purpose of the web site and the desired audience requirements.
There are other web awards. Most of them seek to reward web excellence. But every award seeker must be aware that every award program has its own character, its own philosophy and its own objective. Winning a top award from one award program does not constitute a guarantee that all the other award programs, no matter how rated they are, will evaluate the same site with the same results. Therefore, a serious award seeker should study carefully every single award program before applying for it.
Make yourself familiar with our scoring procedure... use our criteria sections (namely our scoring procedures) as checklists and review your website in an honest and lucid way.
We strongly recommend you to check the requirements to browse and how to use this website. In there you will find important information about how we have handled accessibility and cross-browser compatibility issues in our pages. You can also use UsableNet's LIFT Text Transcoder Demo to browse this website in text-only mode. We have also developed our own text-only script that is available in every page (the "text-version" link).
Also, visit our recent winners for two main reasons... to see what a CPSnet Web Awards winner is and to visit some of the best websites we were pleased to visit.
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- 2005-02-02, recognized as a 5+ Elite Award by Award Sites!
- As it states at Award Sites!, "In recognition of owner, Carlos Simões, for his efforts going well beyond his award program in 'bettering the net through excellence!'". Needless to say that we at the CPSnet Web Awards are honoured by this outstanding distinction. Thank You AS! and thank you all the awardmasters and applicants that helped building this program!
- 2005-01-16, selected the Site Of The Year 2004!
- It is that time of the year agaIn, when we at the CPSnet Web Awards select the best site of the previous year. And this time, our panel of invited judges and our permanent review team have selected Tim's Spider Corner as the Best Site Of The Year 2004! Congratulations Tim Beylemans, for your outstanding website! Tim's Spider Corner is an educational site for all spider fans that addresses the conservation of nature. You will find bird eating spider information, as well as an assortment of pictures, handling tips, resource links, a spider knowledge quiz, and the complete anatomy of a bird eating spider.
- 2005-01-09, awarded the "Humanity Award 2005" by the The Rose Awards:
- We are very proud for being granted this distinction that
it is given out to:
"(1) Webmasters/webmistresses who give back of themselves to the worldwide Net community, offering their talents, their skills, their web sites, as resource points for other people who are interested in bettering themselves and their own sites ... These special people are a great asset to the World Community because they offer their advice and expertise to all who seek it, and everyday, they are making the Internet a better place to be !
(2) This award will also be granted to those special people who display love, tolerance, understanding, compassion, and all-inclusiveness to the Worldwide community, and who understand the true meaning of "We are the World" -- these folks don't shy away from "differences" but instead they reach out to all who pass through their cyber doors !"
More info about this award is available at our "Honors Granted " section. - 2004-10-20, listed at W3 Compliant Sites
- Carlos Simoes is now a "W3 Compliant Sites Member". W3 Compliant Sites is a collection of web sites that were created by designers that conform with the W3C standards. This forum provides the opportunity for them to display their work and ideas in a community that shares common interests.
- 2004-10-13, listed at net-guide.co.uk
- The CPSnet Web Awards are now listed at net-guide.co.uk with an accessibility rating of "excellent". This directory aims to promote accessible sites and gives an accessibility rating for the websites returned for any query entered. Similarly, the directory entries also carry an accessibility rating.
- 2004-06-07, rated 5 by WebsAwards
- A special panel of external judges, convened to assess the programs owned by WebsAwards' Staff members, has rated the CPSnet Web Awards as a WebsAwards level 5 program.
- 2004-05-04, rated 3 by Awardia
- The Awardia Index has rated the CPSnet Web Awards as a level 3 (in 4 possible, where the fourth level is designated "Corona").
- 2004-04-01, rated 4 by EAI:
- The Euro Award Index reinstated this award program at "Level 4" (in 5 possible).
- 2004-03-23, joined WSG:
- We have joined the Web Standards Group (WSG). The Web Standards Group is for web developers/designers who are interested in web standards, CSS and (X)HTML and related topics.
- 2004-03-15, web site redesigned:
- The CPSnet Web Awards have now a brand new website, fully compliant XHTML 1.0 Strict, "made with CSS" and WCAG-WAI Level AAA. Thank you to Webmates, of which we are proud members, for all the help and for the inspiration!
- 2004-01-15, announced the Best Site of Year 2003:
- Announced back in 15/January 2004: "Explore Mars Now". In this outstanding website, visitors can walk through a Mars habitat simulation learning about science and technology as they explore. There are over 100 photo-realistic 3-D images of a near term Mars Habitat concept that are "brought to life" in Macromedia Flash.
