2011 Australian Web Awards Opening Soon
Yes we are back - the Australian Web Awards is on again for 2011.
The Australian Web Awards is the only extensive national awards focusing on the web industry, promoting and awarding the use of industry recognized best practices.
This is our third year as a truly national competition. We are very excited with the thought of the talent that will be uncover this year.
As such we have listened to your suggestions, complaints, and ideas. We took them all in, analysed them, mulled them over, and made some changes, this year a few things are going to be a little different.
Overall the changes are going to make the competition fairer for people following best practice. Still in general terms the Australian Web Awards will retain its high standard, even more so than the previous years.
Remember to win an Australian Web Award really does mean that you have achieved a real milestone in industry recognition.
Categories
This year the Categories are:
- Mobile App
- Commercial
- Personal (no commercial content)
- Ecommerce
- Government
- Education
- Not For Profit
- Innovation
- Culture & Events
How to Enter
When: Enter online from Wednesday 15 June to Wednesday 13 July 2011.
Cost: $55 per entry.
Criteria and Notes:
- Entry must be a product of the entrant for the state in which their Head Office resides.
- Limitation of one category submission per entry.
Information required for entry:
- Entry Name
- Site URL
- Client Name
- Client Contact
- Description of the entry
- Purpose
- Audience
- Business and audience objectives
- Special technical features
- Special usability considerations
- Challenges encountered
- Accessibility compliance level
- Screen grabs of the entry
- Screen cast (optional)
- Name of certificate
- Content is updated by?
- Project team
- Finalists will be asked to submit 2 minute video on their entry
How do you win.
As nearly all our previous winners will tell you, winning is about building it right in the first place. But it does help if you :
- Enter
- Pass Validation (with exceptions)
- Pass Site Performance tests
- Allowing for multiple platforms
- Pass initial Accessibility testing
- Have a great site in these areas:
- Development
- Visual Design
- Accessibility
- Content
- User Experience
- Credibility
See it's easy...
We expect the Australian Web Awards enteries this year to be of a high standard. Your entries will be poked, prodded and put under the microscope by your judging peers. The judges will be brutal, they will be tough, there will be no bias, and still they will be fair.
If your entry shines out as being above the rest, then you have a chance of winning.
This time it’s state against state, small firms and freelancers verse the big end of town.
Who will win? It's anyone’s guess.