Rated Awards

Animation Playhouse Award Program
Offers gold, silver, bronze and merit awards for sites that excel in design, content and navigation. Rating AS! 3.5
http://www.animationplayhouse.com/winaward.htm

Artabus Awards
Three levels of awards for art-related sites. Rating AS! 2.5
http://www.artabus.com/awards.php

Beacon Awards
Recognizing non-commercial sites which provide positive content and valuable resources. Features four levels plus site-of-the-year award. Rating: AS! 5, WA 5, WTA
http://home.earthlink.net/~velderkin/beaconaward.htm

Beehive Awards
A program for general Web excellence focused on useful content. Separate awards for sites based in South Central Indiana, the State of Indiana and all others beyond the state. Rating: AS! 5.0+, WTA, WA 10.3 (Retired)
http://bton.com/tb4/welcome.html

BigEye Award Program
Three-tiered program plus an annual award. Winners based on innovative design, interesting content, easy navigation, and quick load time. Rated AS! 5, WTA
http://bigeye.com.sapo.pt/

BT Design Awards
Rewarding sites with educational and resource value. Six individual awards are available, including three for general excellence plus art, music and movies. Ratings: AS! 5.0, WTA
http://www.barbaratampieri.com/myaward.html

Circus World Awards
Five levels for overall excellence, including Gold, Silver, Bronze and Merit plus a Designer award for non-English websites. Detailed criteria, self test and resources. Rating: AS! 5.0, WTA
http://jansown.com/Awards.html

Comedy Zone Cool Site Awards
Multiple awards are available for well-designed sites with entertaining content. Rating: AS! 3.0
http://www.comedy-zone.net/guide/awards.htm

Copacabana Runners Heart & Soul Award
Program based in Brazil that recognizes the achievements of webmasters who put Heart and Soul into their sites. English and Portuguese language sites may apply. Rating: AS! 4.0 (Retired)
http://www.copacabanarunners.net/awarding.html

Critics Choice Awards
Recognition for sites that demonstrate a high caliber of proficiency in content, graphic art, and value to society. Contains detailed criteria and tutorials. Rating: AS! 5.0 (retired)
http://jjoakley.com/awardsprogramn.html

DAGA International Awards
Award based on the graphics originality and quality. Rating AS! 5.0
http://euromania.altervista.org/DAGA.htm

The DRH Design Award
Offers award for individuals or groups that exhibit creativity in overall design, content, functionality, and appeal. Rating: AS! 3.5.
http://www.drhdesign.com/drhaward.htm

4 Elements Award
Awards for excellence in graphics, art, content and/or design. Multiple levels with individual criteria for each. Rating: AS! 4.5, UWSAG 5, WA 10
http://4elementsaward.com/

Geetha's Web Design Awards
Offers four levels of awards for superior design. Site also contains webmaster resources. Rating: AS! 5.0 (Retired)
http://www.geethazone.com/awards.html

Groundzero Design Award
Award for sites that display excellence of flow, creativity and content. Rating: AS! 4.5
http://www.ground-z.org/award.html

Inukshuk Awards
Multi-level program to showcase sites based on high quality content and presentation. Contains detailed criteria and a self-test. Rating: AS! 4.5
http://www.ascoffanscuff.com/aw/index3.html

JerryD's Music Site Award Program
Offers seven awards, including a general one with three levels along with others for design, content, flash, award sites, non-English, and music based websites. Rating AS! 4.5
http://www.jerryd1.com/1awardsnew.shtml

Korea Award
Three levels for quality of content with style plus a site-of-the-year award. Offers free graphics and other resources including information about Korea. Rated: AS! 4.0, WA 10*, UWSAG 5, EAI 4, WTA
http://www.koreaaward.com

Korea Orchid Award
Three levels to recognize sites that combine imagination, creativity, graphic layout and useful content to educate or entertain. Includes detailed criteria, self-test and winners list. Rated: AS! 5.0, WA 10, UWSAG 4, EAI 4
http://www.koreanorchid.com/award/index.htm

Ladder54 Website Awards
Seven-tiered program for general excellence in design and content and separate categories for firefighting and related content. Rating: AS! 3.0.
http://www.ladder54.com/awards/index.htm

Lakota Wolf Web Design Award
Multiple awards based on design and navigation. Includes specific criteria and winners list. Rated: AS! 2.5
http://www.angelfire.com/nc3/lakotaweb/award.html

Learning Fountain Elite
Award for commercial sites only that qualify under one of five categories and meet 6 separate criteria. Rating: AS! 5.0
http://www.learningfountain.com/awardsfm.htm

Medals of Excellence
Awards three levels to sites that display expertise in areas of informative and tasteful content, technology, design and navigation. Rating: AS! 5.0, WTA
http://www.sunsetsurfers.com/awards/awards.html

Mesweet's Award Site
Offers four awards for exceptional site content. Scoring is based on a point system. Rating: AS! 5.0, WTA (Retired)
http://www.mesweet.net/awards.html

Nem5 Awards Program
Awards are presented to Web sites displaying the highest standards of excellence in original design. Detailed criteria determine four award levels. 11 other individual category awards are also available. Rating: AS! 5.0+, WTA
http://www.webmaggic.com/

Pacoima Ranch Vision Award
Single level based on general site excellence. Contains basic criteria and winners list. Rating: AS! 3.0.
http://www.pacranch.com/visionaward.html

Pirelli INTERNETional Award
Annual international multimedia award for sites related to science and technology. Features rules, jury profiles, previous winners and online application. Rating AS! 5.0
http://www.pirelliaward.com/

Reach for the Stars Award
Offers gold, silver and bronze awards for personal and business websites which have excellent design, content and navigation. Rated: AS! 3.0, WA 1.0
http://www.animationgold.com/introduction.htm

Red Stag Awards
Four levels of awards for personal and commercial sites. Detailed criteria for functionality, design and content with standardized scoring. Site also includes resources and tutorials. Rating: AS! 4.5 (retired)
http://www.dochertyfamily.com/red_stag_awards.htm

StarSite Award
Award program with few winners, focused on cutting-edge design and development. Detailed criteria on site includes a self-test. Rating: AS! 5.0+, WTA (Retired)
http://www.starsiteaward.com

Surfers Choice Awards
Fee-based program with multiple tiers. No submissions are accepted from GeoCities, Tripod, Angel Fire or domains that resolve to them. Rating: AS! 5.0, WTA.
http://www.surferschoiceawards.com/

Talking Hands Award
Award program for sites focused on teaching and learning. Sites must be nominated for consideration. Includes detailed criteria and scoring. AS! Rated 5.0
http://www.faeriekeeper.net/talking.htm

Thomas Sims Graves Award Program
Offers four levels of awards that can be won plus a Diamond Award that is discretionary. Rating AS! 3.5, WA 3
http://www.tsgraves.com/allAwards.php

Tim's Spider Awards
Award program with four levels: Gold, Silver, Bronze and Merit for talent and creativity. Rating AS! 5, WA 4, EAI 5, UWSAG 5, WTA
http://www.timart.be

Vie's Inn of Wonders' Awards
Award program with a focus on outstanding content. Includes detailed criteria and disqualifiers, self test, online application and winners list. Rated: AS! 4.5
http://www.viesinnofwondersawards.com

Vision Site Design Awards
Offers Supreme, Gold, Silver and Bronze awards. Criteria include stunning design, sense of balance, ease of navigation and site optimization. AS! Rated 4.0
http://www.vsda-web-awards.com/

Web Design Poet Award
Awarding sites with unique designs and creative solutions. Contains basic criteria and nomination form. Rating: AS! 3.5
http://www.poeticsolutions.com/poetawardps.html