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Specific Criteria & Scoring

Criteria Updated June 19, 2003

All Applicants will be evaluated using the following criteria.
Each site will start with 40 points.
Points will be deducted for each infraction.

Gold Award 38-40
Silver Award 34-36
Bronze Award 30-32
Merit Award 26-28
Scoring revised June 22, 2003.

5 pages of content *2 points*
*Does not include webrings, awards won, message boards, etc.*

Originality in Content *2 points*

Good Spelling & Grammar *2 points*

No Under Construction signs *2 points*

Complimenting Background & Font color *2 points*

Site originality & Design *2 points*

Graphics original & consistent *2 points*

Site your own design *2 points*
*No Templates like Geocities, AOL, etc.*

Copyright Statement *2 points*

Privacy Statement *2 points*

Pages load within 2 minutes *2 points*

Alt tags used *2 points*

No horizontal scroll *2 points*

Site easy to navigate *2 points*

No use of Back Button *2 points*

External links open in separate window *2 points*

Internal links load in same window *2 points*

No more than 1 broken internal links *2 points*

No more than 2 broken external links *2 points*

No broken graphics *2 points*

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