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Debra Sharp, Webmistress
Mesweet's Awards
I feel that you should be able to choose how you want to display the awards you have won. At the very least, however, you should display the award graphics and link back to the award sites, even if it is not a requirement.
If you want to take it a step further, you can also post the dates you received the awards and the comments that came with them. The dates may become important to you later on. If you don't post them, then keep the emails you received from the award sites so that you will be able to find the dates if you need them at some time in the future.
If you have won many awards and they are displayed on several pages, then you may want to consider creating an Awards Received Index with a text list of the awards you have won and which pages they are displayed on.
Some sites like to list the awards they have won by rating. If you do this, I recommend you do it from the beginning because it can be difficult to go back and figure out what the ratings were at the time you received the awards.
Many sites display the awards they have won in a spectacular manner. My personal favorites are the ones that list all the awards on one page, and text links open a new window for each individual award. The new windows contain the name of the award, the award graphic, the date won, the evaluator's comments, the rating of the award, and a link to close the window.
Dunja Zeyss, Webmistress
Dream Worker Award
Receiving an award is a honour, so won awards should be displayed honourably, too.
For me, the proper way to display awards is to show them together with the laudatio and a link back to the awardmaster. This way, visitors can verify that the award was given to the site and they can apply for the award, if they wish to do so.
Each award should be displayed on a separate page. Yes, it is possible to display awards in a kind of "trophy-case," but a proper presentation would be a separate page for each award with the laudatio and a link back to the awardmaster.
Awards should not be sorted by ratings because this suggests that non-rated awards are inferior. In reality, some of the best awards in the world are not rated.
A proper presentation shows the awardmaster that you honour his award as much
as he honours your website by giving you an award! Awards
are accolades and they should be displayed as such.
Malcolm Hemming, Webmaster
Red Dragon Wales Award
What's the proper way to display awards? Anyway ... as long as they are displayed courteously and with pride.
What do I mean by this? For one thing, don't resize and use them as link buttons. If a visitor or potential award seeker can't see the design, they are not going to be encouraged to visit the award sites and apply for their awards.
For another, always display the laudations you receive with the awards. I was guilty of not doing this until I received an e-mail from a visitor who asked, "do you know what the people who gave you your awards thought of your site?"
Good point! Award givers have a right to expect their laudations to be displayed for all to see. After all, they take the time to do the evaluations. Why shouldn't visitors know that they think of our sites?
Will Harbeson, Webmaster
The Medals Of Excellence
The really neat thing about the web is that nothing is "proper." Almost any awarded site you run across has a goal of making the web a better place to visit, so the display of awards won is as varied as the designers themselves. However, there are some things you should consider out of respect for the awards giver:
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