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Automatic Disqualifications

Any of the following will automatically disqualify you from winning one of my awards:

1. If your site is adult, pornographic, hateful, illegal, sexist or racist.

2. If you have an invalid URL, email address or any other problems that keeps me from accessing your site or getting in touch with you after three days.

3. If your site has less than three pages of real content.  I don't care for sites that are just a lot of links to other people's web sites.

4. Mega pop-up windows.  I know that some of the free servers have pop-ups.  I'm talking about pop-ups that don't need to be there.

5. Sites that crash my browser or freeze my computer.

6. Sites that infringe on copyrights.

7. If you are younger than 13 years old.  This is due to COPPA.

8. I won't consider a site that does not display its awards.  I'm not sure why someone would want an award for their site if they don't intend to display them.

9. Sites must be in English, or at least have a way for me to translate it.  I cannot fairly judge a site if I can't read it to know what type of content it contains.

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The Things I Look For

The following is what I take into consideration when deciding if a site wins my award or not:

Content:
I would like to see something worthwhile on your site.  As I said before, I don't want to see just a lot of links going to other people's sites.  Make your site interesting, informative, inspirational, fun or useful.  Show me that you have put some time and thought into your site.

HTML Coding:
I don't claim to be Einstein when it comes to coding a webpage.  As a matter of fact, I use an HTML editor, but I do know enough about coding to get me by if something just doesn't look right.  You don't have to know how to hand-code a page - I only want to see that you know enough to fix something if it isn't right, too.

Navagation:
Please let me be able to get to all of your pages.  I also hate it when there are broken links everywhere.  We all have broken links sometimes, but more than three is too many.

Design:
I love pretty webpages, but I think the background, graphics and music should fit the theme of the page.  If you use background sets made by others, please give them credit for their work.

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