General Criteria - All Awards
All sites nominated must meet the following minimum criteria to be eligible to win an award:

• There must be no pages "Under Construction" or "Coming Soon".
• The site must not be from a free hosting service such as Geocities, Angelfire, etc. (they are just too transient and there is less of a guarantee they will be on-line in the future).
• The site must be the top domain, it cannot be a subdirectory of the main domain (ie www.yourdomain.com/nominatedpage)
• The site may not contain adult or illegal content.
• The site must not contain objectionable language.
• The site must have a purpose or a theme - not just a collection of links.
• The site must comprise at least 10 printable pages or sections.
• The site must be in English or have an English version available.
• The site must be viewable in both Netscape 4+ and Explorer 5+.
• We do not accept submissions from children under the age of 14 (Children's On-line Privacy Protection Act)
• We've got to think it's cool!
• All award nominations will be reviewed within 2 weeks of submission.

The technical award recognizes sites which take extra care to ensure proper functionality. This includes checking all links such that there are not any ‘broken’ or ‘dead’ links. The code is well formatted (ie. indenting of rows and cells of tables, etc.), scripts and style definitions are organized in a way that is easy to read and understand and JavaScript variables are all declared. Site should display similarly on both a PC and MAC platforms. Load time on any page should be no more than 45 seconds at 56k.

In addition:

• Full META tags must be in place
• Table dimensions must be in place
• Alt tags for images must be in place
• Proper Document Declaration