O.N.Z.C.D.A™ 2008 Web Site of the Month Award Spotlight

 

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O.N.Z.C.D.A™ congratulates our Web Site of the Month Award Spotlight winners on their achievement and thank the web site owners for the opportunity of being able to visit their web sites. Be advised that the listed web sites may no longer display the design and/or content available at the time our award was issued. Access the new window images or text links  to visit our winners.

 

•   Salamanders Young Burn Survivors » awarded 2008-02-26

Yes, facts are at times boring but at the Salamanders Young Burn Survivors web site facts are scary and mind blowing! In the United States alone about 2,400,000 burn injuries ( almost half of which are to children ) are reported each year.

About 650,000 of these injuries are treated by doctors. Up to 90,000 patients are sent to hospital, of whom 20,000 have major burns involving at least a quarter of their bodies. Between 8,000 and 12,000 patients with burns die, and approximately 1,000,000 will sustain substantial or permanent disabilities resulting from their burn injury.

Three out of every four severe burn and scald accidents happen to preschool children with burns and fires being the biggest cause of accidental death in the home for children up to age 14. Three-quarters of all burn accidents could be prevented! Burn injuries cause enormous changes in a person's life, and tremendous emotional pain. Burn injuries are both extremely painful and slow to heal. Burns are very expensive injuries to treat. If you think “a burn” looks a bit like a bad sunburn, you couldn't be more wrong!

The main purpose of Salamanders Young Burn Survivors is to give young burn survivors a way to find out about other burn survivors and to make friends with people who do understand. Salamanders Young Burn Survivors also aims to warn young people about how easy it is to get burned, to teach them about burns and to tell them what to do if someone does get burned. A well designed web site displayed in a 'family safe' setting.

 

•   Caronia II Timeline » awarded 2008-04-27

The splendor of a world cruise liner combined with the intimate atmosphere of a private yacht ... Beauty, comfort and luxury ... This is the RMS Caronia! Step aboard to explore an era of luxury ocean travel that's not likely to ever be repeated!

Cunard's RMS Caronia (II) was a world-famous British cruise ship, built for Cunard in 1948 at John Brown's shipyard in Clydebank, Scotland for the dual purpose role of transatlantic crossings and cruising around the world. The multi award-winning Caronia Timeline Web site records where in the world the RMS Caronia was on any particular day during her illustrious 20 year career with Cunard. Her post Cunard ownership when she was renamed T.S.S. Caribia is also recorded here!

The day-to-day career of this luxurious ship known as the “ Green Goddess ” and the “ Millionaire's Yacht ” - the jewel of the British Merchant Navy, is charted in detail. The Web site aims to bring to life many of the ship traditions that went with living aboard a luxury ocean liner of the 1950's and 1960's. This maritime history research is fully supported by documentation of the period which includes Cunard brochures, itineraries, maps, menus, daily programs and many other ephemeral items.

From ' bow to stern ' this web site is designed to absorb you into taking a keen interest in just one of the ships of her era that became legendary, before the jet air-liner came along with its initially devastating impact. Well designed and displayed in a ' family safe ' setting this web site is definitely a “ must visit. ”