O.N.Z.C.D.A™ Web Site of the Decade

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Music: The Scissor Sisters    are an American alternative band that formed in 2001. Their style draws from disco, glam rock, pop and club scene of New York City. While experiencing only limited mainstream success in their native USA, the band has been hugely successful in Europe, Canada, Australia and particularly in the United Kingdom where they have achieved a number of chart hits as well as their debut album becoming the best-selling album of 2004 in that country. Their single “I Don't Feel Like Dancin ” © 2006 Scissor Sisters ( written in collaboration with Elton John, who provides piano for the song ) was the fourth best-selling single in the UK in 2006 and stayed in the UK top 40 for 27 weeks. Written Permission of Use to broadcast “I Don't Feel Like Dancin ” © 2006 Scissor Sisters is currently pending.

Design: Special thanks to EricZ    who very generously created our birthday presentation. EricZ spends much time with his hobbies of as XHTML, PHP, CSS and FLASH and enjoys sharing what he learns with others and we are grateful for his input.

We began our adventures with O.N.Z.C.D.A™ at the end of 1998 and this year we celebrate our first Decade as part of the international award community. Over the years we have been privileged to meet many wonderful people within the award community and have viewed / evaluated the works of hundreds of web site owners. We have gone on exciting journeys around the world, gained much from the new things our peers have taught us and have always felt welcome in every web site we have visited.

To mark our special occasion, we will find our Web Site of the Decade from amongst our previous Web Site of the Year winning web sites ( including the year 2008 if applicable ) and offer a special award to mark their owners ultimate achievement.

We commissioned the brilliant, creative graphic designer Tony Duthoo     Belgium to create for us the award that goes beyond all other awards. But Tony did not stop there: he also gave more of his time to create special badges for our Judges. Thank you Tony for the expertise and time you have provided.

The Web Site of the Decade award image specifications are 150 px height by 150 px width with a weight of 15kb.

We have brought together a very special group of people to be Judges for this special occasion. They have been carefully chosen for their individual integrity and expertise in web site evaluation. When visiting their web sites ( ( access the linked photos within each individual brief biography below ) you may find their web sites display lesser rating levels than other award programs you have seen. Although ratings have importance, they reflect the award program owners ability to meet the criteria set down by the rating services - they do not give a true representation of the integrity and evaluation skills of the award program / web site owners and it is these attributes upon which we made our choice. Our Judges are displayed in alphbetical order.

Aiko Timmer - Netherlands - Owner of Aiko Timmer's Geneology Pages.  

Evaluator for his own ( now closed ) ATGP award program that was rated AS! 4.0, WebsAwards 4.0, UWSAG 5.0, APIRS 4.0, PAI 5.0 and FRI 4.0 and on staff with the Korea Award, Firestarter Award, Nautical Award, Timelines Award and Poetic Soul Award, Aiko is the father of three sons and is a financial planner who gained his knowledge of html, javascript and php through working with it ( mainly a case of trial and error. )

His award program was based on the theme “genealogy” because of his other passion - working on the genealogy of his family.

Additional internet activities include owner / administrator of the Award Community News    - Technical Support Manager at both O.N.Z.C.D.A™ and WebsAwards    and also serving as Director of Web Development for APEX  

Denny Lancaster - United States - owner of the Talking Hands Award Program.  

Chairperson of the Heartland Golden Heart Award ( now inactive ), evaluator for three years with the Award of Excellence and mentor and evaluator for The Site Fights over seven years.

Denny is the father of four children and grandfather of seven grand children, a retired tax attorney, a certified web master through online and college courses and is a MCI ( master certified instructor ) in ten disciplines who, because of his love of “special children” established the Talking Hands Award in 1986.

Additional internet activities include ( in part ) acting in several capacities for AwardSites!    having been a member since 1999, is currently a co-editor for NovaSite    and serving as Director of Memberships for APEX  

Eric Zabinsky - United States - owner of FlashbyZ.  

Eric enjoys spending way too much time on the internet. Internet technologies such as XHTML, PHP, CSS and FLASH are his best friends and hobbies being daily learning experiences and he enjoys sharing what he learns with others.

An advocate of the online award's community his past experiences in the award community include being an early graduate and eventual managing member of the CEP. He was an early member of the CEM/CEMA program and APEX and was a co-manager of the LoneStar Site Design award program and owner of the USMCsky and Z3 Design award programs.

The focal points of his FlashbyZ web site are the articles discussing the many aspects of dynamic web design and he invites all to join him as he discusses the backbone and development of a CSS and PHP driven web site.

Jo Phillips - United Kingdom - owner of the Firestarter Awards.  

A professionally qualified graphic designer, Jo has been involved in the industry for over fifteen years and has worked in London as an art editor designing magazines for publishing houses, B.B.C and Haymarket.

Having developed a keen interest in web design after creating her personal site Firestarter Pyrography    Jo is also the the proud owner of the Firestarter Awards where she works as part of a team reviewing web sites and giving help and advice to applicants. An active member of the awards community, Jo is also an evaluator for UWSAG, Nem5, VSDA, ATGP and the F.R.I Awards Index.

Jo has also recently formed her own small design company Spiral Pixel    where she produces web sites and graphics for clients.

‡Judges: No permanent staff member within O.N.Z.C.D.A™ will initially be a Judge for this event - the initial Judges will be by special invitation however, we reserve the right to choose from any award program location one ( 1 ) Judge who will act in the capacity of a ' Draw Judge ' as and / or if required.

‡Entrants: All previous O.N.Z.C.D.A™ Web Site of the Year winning web sites will automatically be entered ( including the 2008 Web Site of Year winner if applicable. )

‡Communication: All owners of the nominated web sites will be contacted by email and provided with a site ID number and directions to the Rules of Participation URL. Your receipt of our notification email prior to evaluations taking place will be consideed to be the formal notification of your web site participation in the Web Site of the Decade event. You will be under no obligation to respond to that email, however there may be some situations where you would wish to contact us these being -

• The withdrawal of your web site from this event due to it being no longer available for viewing on the www. ( Please note that your web site may not be withdrawn from the Web Site of the Decade event for any other reason than the one stated above. )
• To provide us with your reason why Link Checks should not be carried out during the evaluation processes.

‡Assessment timeframe: Assessments will take place from the month of June 2008 up to and including February 2009 with nominated web sites undergoing multiple assessments by any Judge within this timeframe.

‡Results publication: Final results will be displayed from the beginning of March 2009.

‡Closed down Nominated web sites: Due to the extended timeframe, any nominated web site that closes down will be removed from the list. Periodic manual web site access URL checks will be undertaken to ascertain link viability.

‡Evaluation requirements: The current and entire ( at the time of Judging ) O.N.Z.C.D.A™ criteria and all other documentation including but not limited to the criteria, child safety and privacy policies, disqualifiers and the normal application form declaration requirements current at the time of assessments will apply.

‡Nominated site owners responsibility: As with all web site awards, it will be the sole responsibility of nominated web site owners to ensure they familiarize themselves with our overall award program requirements.

‡Applicable Ratings: The Web Site of the Decade will carry the following ratings: Award Sites! Level 5.0+ Elite, WebsAwards Level 5.0, U.W.S.A.G Level 6.0, Awards Treasure Chest Level 5.0, FRI Award-Index Level 5.0, Wsaptronic Level 6.0, A.W.A.R.D Level 6.0, APIRS Level 5.0 and BEI Level 10.0.

‡In the event of a draw: In the situation where two or more nominated web sites achieve equal points a ' Draw Judge ' ( unrelated to the evaluations already completed ) will fully re-evaluate the drawn nominated web sites to find the final winner.

‡Points required: The O.N.Z.C.D.A™ Web Site of the Decade winner will be the web site that achieves the closest to a total of 100 / 100 points ( but no less than 98 / 100 points ) averaged across the final results of our four ( 4 ) Judges or, in the case of a draw, across the averaged final results of our ' Draw Judge. '

‡What we will provide: The winning web site owner will be provided with a permanent promotional new window display including 4 ( four ) medium and 1 ( one ) large sized web site display images, web site descriptive text and assessors comments linking to the successful web site within O.N.Z.C.D.A™

‡There will not an automatic issue of the award: Although we are offering a Web site of the Decade award it is not, in our overall view, reasonable for nominated web site owners to expect that the issuing of this award will be automatic. The nominated web sites will be stringently evaluated by our judges and some may not reach the minimum averaged score points required irrespective of previous evaluation points received and / or awards achieved from this award program therefore be advised that our judges cannot ethically issue the award continuing to maintain fairness to other nominated web site owners, their own individual integrity or provide the Web site of the Decade award with true value if the minimum points requirement of 98 / 100 is not met.

The Web Site of the Deacde 'battle' has begun! Nominated web site owners have been emailed an ID code - sample: DEC 000 representing their individual web sites in the below listing. We will not be posting final coded details until all the nominated web sites have completed their evaluations. All timeframe's are in New Zealand time. Results will be processed in no particular order.