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Category Details

Student

The student category is for students who were enrolled in an education institution (school, TAFE, University or training organisation) as a full time student in a web design / development, computer science or multimedia course, during the site qualification time frame. Entrants will also need to provide contact details of a lecturer as a referee for the site. It does not matter what type of site has been submitted as it can be from a personal site through to a virtual business or beyond. The site is to be accessible online during the judging period.

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Blog

This category is one for bloggers in Western Australia who provide non-commercial, community or personal musings, commentary on social issues, the Internet or anything that takes their interest and intended for general public consumption. Blog sites generally represent the personality of the author or reflect the purpose of the blog.

The site is judged mainly on its content, and fitness for purpose, not necessarily the technology the site is using.

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Business Categories

The business categories have had a re-design and the following is a reflection of this.

Virtual

This category is specifically for businesses that only exist in the cloud with no physical presence in the real world. The business can be anything from an information site, a site providing services or just the ability to download music and digital files.

As a general rule, if the business cannot continue to provide products or service with out the website, it can be considered a “virtual business”. The important criteria here is that the site matches the purpose of the business and reflects the business identity, that is fitness for purpose, design aesthetics and user experience.

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Retail

This category is specifically for the websites whose primary purpose is to sell products online. Not only are the criteria of fitness of purpose and user experience important, there is a set of criteria just for this category. The important new criteria for this category include type of security certificates, customisation and shopping cart flow.   The key component of this category is the presence of an online transaction and selling system.

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Sell to People and Sell to Corporate

The categories are for businesses that have a physical presence in the real world. There will be a variety of businesses that fit this category. Sites can be anything from a brochure site, integrated market places for procurement and purchasing between businesses, a portal to services provided or payment facilities. The fitness for purpose, content and user experience are of importance for judging this category.  What these sites are not is an ecommerce site with a shopping cart, sites like would fall into the category of Retail.

Sell to Corporate

These are broken down into tow major categories based on the focal audience of the web site.    If the site is primarily looking at an audience of business’s corporate or commercial enterprises then they are “Selling to Corporate” category, that could be a service, information or a product.

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Sell to People

However if the site is selling to the general public as individuals then this would be taken as the “Selling to People” category.  If the site is selling to both on equal value via the use of audience directional sub sites with the main site proper then it is suggested that both categories could be applied for.

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Mobile

This is a new category for this year. Websites that are entered into this category will need to be view from a number of mobile devices from Nokia Symbian devices, opera mobile browsers, Motorola, and the like, not just iPhones.

Not for Profit – Non-Commercial

These websites are from either Not-for-profit organsiational structures or non-commercial sites who their web presence as a marketing and communications tool. Not-for-profit /non-commercial sites can be as varied as the Red Cross to a Theatre company to Arts Festival event organiser. User experience is an important criteria for evaluation of this category. Matching the site to the purpose and main vision of the not-for-profit/non-commercial organisation involved is also important.

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Education

This category is specifically for educational institutions such as schools (private and public, primary and secondary), TAFEs, and Universities. The sites in this category need to support the ongoing business of edcuation, gathering prospective students are well as support their major target audience (the students). The user experience is important for this category as well as fitness for purpose.

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Government (local, state and federal)

This category is for government websites. User experience is an important criteria for evaluation of this category as is fitness of purpose.

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Edge of the Web – Web Innovation

This category is for those who like to innovate and creatively, ingeniously push the boundaries of what the web can do. This may be something different, new or not, as long as it is not just run of the mill. This category includes online applications.

Entrants to this category will be judged on their innovative idea, technical expertise and design. This category are also judged on marketability.

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Media

The Media category is for websites that produce news or are part of the media spectrum. Content, fitness for purpose and user experience are the criteria that important for judging. Professional bloggers, new media site, traditional media sites and publishers of news can enter into this category

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Arts and Events

The Arts and Events category is for websites that are focused on events or the arts or are a siet supporting the busness of the an artist, regardless of the artists medium, be that music, dance,  fine arts or the fashion industry. Content, fitness for purpose and user experience are the criteria that important for judging. Conference, festivals, plays, musicians sites, authors site all fill into this category.

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Most Outstanding

This award is given to one of the category winners. This year the winners will be judged against each other on the eight (8) General criteria “Raw Scores” only and will be the subject of a discussion between the Judging panel and the Judging Chairperson.

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