How We Evaluate

H O W W E E V A L U A T E

ebsAwards believes in providing an efficient and fairly balanced evaluation format and many hours have been spent with, at times, input from Staff and previous applicants, trying to arrive at what could be considered to be a quality format.

1. Two ( 2 ) WebsAwards Judges will engage in the evaluation of each applicant award program and they will use exactly the same requirements and process you may view in our General Requirements and Criteria Self Test.

2. To resolve any possible differences between the dual scoring ( as both Judges may complete their assessments with different rating level scores: sample - i.e. - a Level 3.0 and a Level 4.0 ), they will initially send their individual assessment results back to WebsAwards Administration.

3. If the overall assessment results are completed with the same rating level being applied by both WebsAwards Judges the results will be compiled and forwarded to the applicant with copies being sent to both the WebsAwards Judges for their records.

4. If there are differing results re the rating level applied by both WebsAwards Judges WebsAwards Administration will contact both Judges informing them of same and request that they then discuss between themselves via email the two ( 2 ) differing assessment results and come to a joint agreement on the Level rating to be applied.

5. Their final joint decision will then be returned to WebsAwards Administration, compiled and forwarded to the applicant with copies being sent to both the WebsAwards Judges for their records.

6. If either of the Judges consider an Amnesty should be applied for the use of any applicant this will be discussed between them both and will not be applied without their joint decision.

Conditions applicable to our provision of assessment results

This information will be issued to you upon completion of your award program assessments and will be provided under the following conditions:

We provide assessment results for your interest only. They are intended to be positive, helpful comment - not creating negativity in any way. Our making of any further suggestions for your consideration ( if included ) should not be viewed as being demeaning to your award program and / or your design efforts. They are part of our ongoing efforts to be helpful to our applicants.

Be advised that any Link Check documents that may be attached are not final and concise and are provided to assist you. They also may not be fully complete. All links listed will require manual checking to validate. At the time of your award program assessments the listed links were validated as we will provide to you but we are aware that overnight, link validity can alter to the reverse therefore some of the assessment information, screen shots and / or Link Check items ( if attached ) may no longer be applicable if you have been changing / correcting / amending your award program pages since the conclusion of our assessments. However, any items provided will have been applicable at the time of your award program assessments and therefore must remain as items within your results.

We will not include a complete report of criteria disparities found as we are under no obligation to do so. We will include items that lead up to us not being able to rate or upgrade the rating of your award program during the current assessments and / or any other items we may consider of value to your award program.

We do not have the expectation that you will alter any aspect of your award program due to any information we provide.

What is a WebsAwards Amnesty and how does it work?

A WebsAwards Amnesty is a seven ( 7 ) day timeframe, allowed immediately after an award program assessment, within which applicants have the opportunity to correct minor criteria errors found through their award program assessments.

Amnesties are not automatically granted. They may be applied upon the joint decision to do so by the Judges of your Award Program at the time of assessment. Applicants may only receive one ( 1 ) Amnesty per application ( the amnesties being exclusive of new award programs with no current WebsAwards rating. ) Applicants will receive one ( 1 ) email notification only.

Be advised that if any applicant does not make the required corrections to the minor criteria errors found through their award program assessments it may mean an applicants award program rating level could be downgraded.

What is an Amnesty Extension?

An Amnesty extension could be needed by an award program owner due to personal or business reasons and will be permitted allowing a further seven ( 7 ) days amnesty time limit upon WebsAwards Administration receiving a written request from the award program owner giving a valid reason for the inability to meet the original amnesty timeframe.

What happens if an award program owner refuses to meet the original and / or extended amnesty time frames?

Any award program owner who chooses to refuse to work within any Amnesty and / or Amnesty extension timeframe's allocated, will, after the Amnesty and / or Amnesty extension timeframe expiry dates, have their award program removed from our listings.

Can an award program be reinstated to its previous rating level if the owner has refused to meet the original and / or extended amnesty time frames with the listing having been removed from WebsAwards?