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•  We believe that -
•  Our awards will be achieved by -
•  We want you to achieve
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•  We are more likely to act in accordance with our values when they are openly declared.
•  We can guarantee to our applicants that we will always strive to act in keeping with our stated values.
•  Our individual applicants personal and assessment information should always be confidentially maintained.
•  Our guests and applicants, not our awards or ourselves, are our most valuable assets.
•  Our Awards should always be earned; that they will never be given away.

Webmasters, designers and web site owners who are reaching for the pinnacle of design excellence. We constantly strive to find the designers who, through their ongoing search for perfection, create web sites that clearly demonstrate the use and display of the following -

•  Quality design skills.
•  Expertise in the understanding and utilization of our criteria elements.
•  Innovation, creativity, consideration of and for impaired viewers and offering educational and resourceful content providing valuable information for the wider Internet community.

•  The general 'surfer' views the web site surface; we recognize the 'heart' - the 'core', design and coding skills, how your subject is presented, whether you have made allowances for impaired visitors through appropriate use of image alt tags and readable text, technical skills applied and much more.

•  We pay high regard to new owners and designers - those of us who struggle day after day to learn all the many elements required to produce design excellence. Be encouraged - for the many long and hard hours you are putting into your web site today will produce the invaluable web site of the future.

•  We want you to achieve our awards. We do not like empty winners lists but we will never consider compromising the standards we have set in order to increase our winners listings as to do this would minimize the integrity of yourself and our staff plus the value of our awards would be rapidly negated.