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Theology WebSite's
WebSite Excellence Awards
| TheologyWebsite Good Use Award
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This is our third tier award.
The TheologyWebsite Good Use Award is given to those sites we recommend to our own visitors as demonstrating meaningful use of the internet. These sites often primarily provide information or functionality from a single or particular point of view and are aimed at a specific group within the online christian community. These sites serve a limited yet necessary task in such a way as to merit recognition. This is our most commonly awarded award and is given to sites meeting our basic criteria of site design, content and purpose.
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| TheologyWebsite Internet Resource Award
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This is our second tier award.
The TheologyWebsite Internet Resource Award is given to those sites we recommend to our own visitors as being broadly useful, thought-provoking and interesting to the online theological community as a whole. These sites provide a significant amount of content and breadth, and are aimed at catering to the education of the internet community as a whole. Sites receiving this award merit distinction and recognition due to their unique and substantial contribution to the online theological community, as well as their potential for growth and development into unparalleled sites. Sites receiving this award must meet both our basic and advanced criteria of site design, content and purpose.
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| TheologyWebsite Top Notch Resource Award
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This is our first tier and highest award.
The TheologyWebsite Top Notch Resource Award is given to those sites which clearly surpass the basic and advanced criteria for our first and second tier awards. Sites receiving this award are selected by TheologyWebsite staff from among award submissions for their superiority in design and content.
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If you haven't already done so, check out our own Site History. There you'll learn that this site had very meager yet determined origins. We have been blessed and greatly helped along the way by larger sites willing to recognize the effort and resources we had gathered for our ambitious web site. On the web, user traffic is everything and it may very well be that you initially heard of TheologyWebsite through one of the generous Recommendations and Awards we received.
Therefore, now that we have achieved a modest level of regular traffic and recognition, we would like to participate in the growth and expansion of other meager yet determined sites. We have chosen to do this through our own award which we hope will retain its merit and intention.
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| Our Award's Internet Rating |
 As far as web site awards go, there are a few entites which monitor the many awards available and rate them according to difficulty and meaningfulness. One of the largest award rating entities is Award Sites! which has recently reviewed both our award and review process and has deemed our award as a Select Member ("One of the Best") with a rating of 4.0. The rating of 4.0 indicates that our awards and criteria are of high quality.
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General Criteria for sites receiving this award are the following:
Site Design
- Fundamental Design Issues
- The site must contain no missing graphics
- The site must not contain broken links when referring to its own pages. Exceptions will be made for bad links to external sites, but more than one such broken link will diminish the chance of award.
- The site must not cause any browser errors such as javascript errors or java applet errors. Pages must be viewable in both newer versions of Netscape and Internet Explorer unless the site explicitly claims ot be accessible to only one type of browser.
Advanced Design Issues
- Site navigation must be clear and easy to understand.
- Navigation graphics must be clearly defined and must explicitly indicate where they lead. The user should not require "guesswork" to figure out where a certain button will lead to.
- Site graphics should be optimized so that they download within a reasonable amount of time.
- The site's front or main page should not contain more than three advertising banners unless they advertise the site's own products. Banners from banner rotation programs and link exchanges should be minimal.
- The site's appearance should be uniform as the user navigates throughout its pages. Uniformity does not require duplication of design, but the entire site's layout must reflect some degree of forethought by the designer.
Site Content
- The site must have multiples pages with either a variety of topics or a breadth of coverage of one particular topic. The award will not be giving to one or two page sites.
- The site must contain some degree of unique content and should not be a list of links to other sites. Even those sites which view themselves as Portals or Web Indices must provide some other form of unique content to be eligible for award. Exceptions will be made for highly specialized web indices which clearly provide a unique collection of links, provided their categorization is worthy of award.
- The site must demonstrate its own theological or philosophical reflection, or contribute to the online theological community in a unique manner.
- Site content must have been updated within the reasonable past. For example, sites whose primary pages indicate that they were last updated in 1998 will not be awarded.
- Site content must be in good taste and in general accord with the overall purposes of TheologyWebsite.
Site Purpose
- The site must in some manner contribute expressly to the online theological community.
- The site must have as its purpose some manner of provision (through information, community, etc.) to those interested in learning or expressing religion online.
- The overall atmosphere of the site, especially its exchanges with its visitors must be characterized by open mindedness and charity toward diversity
- The site must clearly define what its own purpose, mission or objective is.
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In most cases we are able to visually review your site and issue our conclusions within a 21 day period. Providing ourselves this amount of time insures that our own webmaster and internet developer are able to view your site and provide an accurate evaluation.
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After great expense and effort, Theology WebSite is proud to introduce its Elite Peer Review Team
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Peer 1 is our literary critic and specializes in scouring each site's grammatical and syntactical accuracy. He has been known to bring some of the strongest of webmasters to their knees through his artful mastery of punctuation and hyphenation. Peer 1's motto: "Woe to those who hold not Scripture in their right hand and Webster's Dictionary in their left!" |
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Peer 2 is the team's conscientious Thinker, for he will undoubtedly visit your site "at many times and in sundry manner" before finally casting his ("final... and this time I mean final!") vote. He specializes in finding the nooks and crannies of a web site and locating everything the site possesses or lacks. Peer 2's motto: "I am the 'I' in 'Eye for detail'!" |
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Peer 3 is our caffeinated techie whose sole purpose in life is to grow elated or aggravated over other webmasters' use of technology. He specializes in finding cracks and crevices in web pages which offer a peek at the underlying machinery. He has been known to have disappeared for 3 whole days is such a crevice. Peer 3's motto: "This coffee is cold!" |
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Peer 4 represents the militant international wing of our peer team and specializes in capturing and subduing the dreaded beast known as "overgeneralizing oversimplistic american optimism". Under the scrutiny of his worldly wise gaze, even the most beloved "hot dog and cherry-pie" web sites have been sentenced to travel to at least three non-commercialized nations before returning. Peer 4's motto: "Wir übernehmen die Welt, indem wir die schwachen Web-Sites überwinden!" |
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If you want to submit your own site for consideration, simply fill out our
Online Award Submission Form.
Or email us at awards@theologywebsite.com
You must supply the following:
- Your name and email address
- The site's URL and title
- A brief description of the site's primary content and/or attraction.
- Description of site's target audience
- Description of site's demographics (geographical location, etc.) if applicable.
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