Organizations
Association for Positive Ethical eXchange (APEX), Award Sites!, Awards Forum, Euro Award Index, Quality Independent Web Awards, RAU, Royal Awards University, Stargazer Award Index, United Web Site Award Givers, WebsAwards, Website Awards
4 Elements Award
Awards for excellence in graphics, art, content and/or design. Multiple levels with individual criteria for each. Rating: AS! 4.5, UWSAG 5, WA 10
A Woman Is... Awards
Offers awards to creative webmasters of personal sites only. Includes detailed criteria and self-test. Rating: AS! 3.0, UWSAG 3, WA 8.5
Animation Playhouse Awards of Excellence
Animation Playhouse offers gold, silver, bronze and merit awards for sites that excel in design, content and navigation. Rating AS! 3.0
Artabus Awards
Three levels of awards for art-related sites. Rating AS! 2.5
Beacon Awards
Recognizing non-commercial sites which provide positive content and valuable resources. Features four levels plus site-of-the-year award. Rating: AS! 5, WA 5, WTA
Beehive Awards
Comprehensive program for general Web excellence focused on useful content. Separate awards for sites based in South Central Indiana, the State of Indiana and all others beyond the state. Rating: AS! 5.0+, WTA, WA 10.3 (Retired)
BigEye Award Program
Three-tiered program plus an annual award. Winners based on innovative design, interesting content, easy navigation, and quick load time. Rated AS! 5, WTA
BT Design Awards
Rewarding sites with educational and resource value. Six individual awards are available, including three for general excellence plus art, music and movies. Ratings: AS! 5.0, WTA
Circus World Awards
Five levels for overall excellence, including Gold, Silver, Bronze and Merit plus a Designer award for non-English websites. Detailed criteria, self test and resources. Rating: AS! 5.0, WTA
Comedy Zone Cool Site Awards
Multiple awards are available for well-designed sites with entertaining content. Rating: AS! 3.0
Copacabana Runners Heart & Soul Award
Program based in Brazil that recognizes the achievements of webmasters who put Heart and Soul into their sites. English and Portuguese language sites may apply. Rating: AS! 4.0 (Retired)
CPSnet Web Awards
Offers three awards, the High In The Sky, the Aracnofilia Web Design and the Best Site of the Year. Program intends to reward web sites that excel in content and design. Detailed criteria can be found at the program. Rating: AS! 5.0+, WTA, WA 5
Critics Choice Awards
Recognition for sites that demonstrate a high caliber of proficiency in content, graphic art, and value to society. Contains detailed criteria and tutorials. Rating: AS! 5.0 (retired)
DAGA International Awards
Award based on the graphics originality and quality. Rating AS! 5.0
Dawggone Communications Awards
Web site and personal awards for good web site, upbeat web site, positive influence, and trivia web site. Rating AS! 2.5
Favourite Website Awards
Program focused on cutting-edge technology and creativity. Applicants must feature original content. Rating: WTA.
Future Antiquities Website Awards
Website awards presented to sites that can last the ages. Offered resources include tutorials, articles and links of interest to both award givers and award seekers. Rating: AS! 4.5 (retired)
Geetha's Web Design Awards
Offers four levels of awards for superior design. Site also contains webmaster resources. Rating: AS! 5.0 (Retired)
Inukshuk Awards
Multi-level program to showcase sites based on high quality content and presentation. Contains detailed criteria and a self-test. Rating: AS! 4.5 (Retired)
JeM of the Net Awards
Design and Content awards on offer to acknowledge web excellence. Free award graphics, resources and award community live chat room available on site. Rating: AS! 5.0, WTA
JerryD's Music Site Award Program
Offers seven awards, including a general one with three levels along with others for design, content, flash, award sites, non-English, and music based websites. Rating AS! 4.5
Korea Award
Three levels for quality of content with style plus a site-of-the-year award. Offers free graphics and other resources including information about Korea. Rated: AS! 4.0, WA 10*, UWSAG 5, EAI 4, WTA
Korea Orchid Award
Three levels to recognize sites that combine imagination, creativity, graphic layout and useful content to educate or entertain. Includes detailed criteria, self-test and winners list. Rated: AS! 4.5, WA 10, UWSAG 4, EAI 4
Ladder54 Website Awards
Seven-tiered program for general excellence in design and content and separate categories for firefighting and related content. Rating: AS! 3.0.
Lakota Wolf Web Design Award
Multiple awards based on design and navigation. Includes specific criteria and winners list. Rated: AS! 2.5
Learning Fountain Elite
Award for commercial sites only that qualify under one of five categories and meet 6 separate criteria. Rating: AS! 5.0
Lexi Awards of Excellence Award Program
Gives 4 awards for websites that excel in content, quality and ethics. Rated AS! 2.5
Lone Star Site Design Award
Offers three award levels for outstanding design, content and accessibility. Rating: AS! 5.0, WTA (retired)
Maestro Awards of Excellence
Program evaluates site excellence and presentation in a number of categories and subjects. Also includes tutorials, articles about awards and a free awards organizer. Rating: AS! 5.0+, WTA
Medals of Excellence
Awards three levels to sites that display expertise in areas of informative and tasteful content, technology, design and navigation. Rating: AS! 5.0, WTA
Mesweet's Award Site
Offers four awards for exceptional site content. Scoring is based on a point system. Rating: AS! 5.0, WTA (Retired)
Nem5 Awards Program
Awards are presented to Web sites displaying the highest standards of excellence in original design. Detailed criteria determine four award levels. 11 other individual category awards are also available. Rating: AS! 5.0+, WTA
O.N.Z.C.D.A
Internationally renowned program providing the evaluations of highly skilled staff. Applicants may achieve from Bronze through to monthly and annual awards. Rating AS! 5.0+, WTA
Pacoima Ranch Vision Award
Single level based on general site excellence. Contains basic criteria and winners list. Rating: AS! 3.0.
Pirelli INTERNETional Award
Annual international multimedia award for sites related to science and technology. Features rules, jury profiles, previous winners and online application. Rating AS! 5.0
Red Stag Awards
Four levels of awards for personal and commercial sites. Detailed criteria for functionality, design and content with standardized scoring. Site also includes resources and tutorials. Rating: AS! 4.5 (retired)
Sinapsis Award
Award program that honors Web sites based on intellectual attitude. Winners are recognized for making the Web a more interesting place to visit. Awards presented in gold, silver and bronze. English and Spanish language sites are welcome. Rating: AS! 5.0, WTA
Spider Award
Program to recognize Web sites that achieve Top Ten ranking based on keywords with the major search engines. Rating: AS! 4.5.
StarSite Award
Award program with few winners, focused on cutting-edge design and development. Detailed criteria on site includes a self-test. Rating: AS! 5.0+, WTA (Retired)
Surfers Choice Awards
Fee-based program with multiple tiers. No submissions are accepted from GeoCities, Tripod, Angel Fire or domains that resolve to them. Rating: AS! 5.0, WTA.
The DRH Design Award
Offers award for individuals or groups that exhibit creativity in overall design, content, functionality, and appeal. Rating: AS! 3.5.
ThiatraCat Awards
Three-tiered program for family-safe sites with minimal criteria. Rated: AS! 2.5
Thomas Sims Graves Award Program
Offers four levels of awards that can be won plus a Diamond Award that is discretionary. Rating AS! 3.5, WA 3
Tim's Spider Awards
Award program with four levels: Gold, Silver, Bronze and Merit for talent and creativity. Rating AS! 5, WA 4, EAI 5, UWSAG 5, WTA
Valkyrie's Awards Program
Offers 4 level awards for good design and great content. Detailed criteria on site. Rating: AS! 4.5
Vie's Inn of Wonders' Awards
Comprehensive award program with a focus on outstanding content. Includes detailed criteria and disqualifiers, self test, online application and winners list. Rated: AS! 4.5
Vision Site Design Awards
Offers Supreme, Gold, Silver and Bronze awards. Criteria include stunning design, sense of balance, ease of navigation and site optimization.
Web Design Classics Awards
Three levels of awards for excellence in design, quality content and navigation. AS! rated 3.0
Web Design Classics Web Services
Web design services for smalll and medium businesses. Site offers 4 awards for design. Rated AS! 3.0
Web Design Poet Award
Awarding sites with unique designs and creative solutions. Contains basic criteria and nomination form. Rating: AS! 3.5
Webmaster Excellence Awards
Awarding webmasters for excellence in one or more categories. Four award levels determined by detailed criteria. Rating: AS! 3.5.
WebTree Cool Site Award
Three levels based on minimal criteria. Applicant sites must feature at least 5 pages of original content. Rated UWSAG 2.0
World of Knowledge Awards
Features three levels plus an individual award for sites related to Atheism. Criteria based on content with strong educational or entertainment value. Rating: AS! 4.5 (Retired)