Web Site Navigation, Graphics, Content and Grammar Requirements

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•  3. Navigation
•  4. Graphics
•  5. Content and Grammar
•  W3C and FAE Validations

a ) Do internal links open in the same frame or window (this being exclusive of small popup new window pages displaying relevant site content) and external links open in new windows? An exception to this rule is if the site is HTML 4.0 Strict or XHTML 1.0 Strict. Up to 3 points available.

b ) Can we navigate your web site using minimum effort and without using the browser back button? Up to 4 points available.

c ) Is the web site navigation system clearly visible and efficiently organized? Up to 3 points available.

d ) Can visitors easily return to your home page from anywhere in the web site? Up to 4 points available.

a ) Are images displayed that serve no real purpose? We allow for images serving no real purpose in children's web sites and/or pages. Up to 2 points available.

b ) Are all images viewable - not broken? We allow two broken image links per web site. Up to 2 points available.

c ) Are animated images reduced to the absolute minimum? We allow for one (1) per web page excluding children's web sites and/or pages, awards received/offered, web ring displays and guest books. Up to 2 points available.

d ) Are images clear - not pixilated or fuzzy - allowing for the best view possible? Up to 3 points available.

e ) Do all web site images have descriptive alt and title attributes enabling impaired viewers or persons who prefer to surf with images turned off to understand what your images are all about? Descriptive meaning 'Lake Taupo - New Zealand' not merely 'Lake.' Up to 4 points available.

a ) Would we, as 'middle of the road' web surfers, find your web site overall content interesting and user friendly? Up to 3 points available.

b ) Is related content grouped together so visitors find consistency of content? Up to 2 points available.

c ) Does your web site contain a minimum of five (5) pages of informative content available for viewing excluding web site entrance pages, awards received (these constituting achievements or testimonies and are not considered to be content), guest books, web rings, forms of any type and/or link pages that are filled with links to external web sites? (5 pages = 1 point available; 6 pages up = 2 points available.)

d ) Looking at your web site written content from the perspective of a 'middle of the road' web surfer, does your writing style display correct vocabulary, grammar and punctuation reflecting an exemplary comprehension of the written English language? Up to 3 points available.

e ) Do links clearly show what it is that will be found on the next page? Up to 2 points available.

f ) Are awards received displayed with both graphics and laudations? Due to changes over the past years we will expect such displays from 2006 onwards. Up to 3 points available.

g ) Do you offer visitors any free services: graphics, tutorials, selections of resources, downloads, e-mail, forums etc? Up to 3 points available.

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