{"id":300,"date":"2008-05-05T03:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T07:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/5-tips-to-impress-the-webaward-judges\/"},"modified":"2014-08-02T09:17:51","modified_gmt":"2014-08-02T13:17:51","slug":"5-tips-to-impress-the-webaward-judges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/5-tips-to-impress-the-webaward-judges\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Tips to Impress the WebAward Judges"},"content":{"rendered":"

With less than one month to go until the deadline for entering the 12th annual international WebAward competition<\/a>, we hope to provide a series of hints on how to increase your changes of winning this prestigious Website award. Be sure to check our WMA blog regularly or subscribe to its RSS feed for greater insight into putting your best foot forward and winning a WebAward.<\/p>\n

5 Tips to Impress the WebAward Judges <\/h1>\n

1) Provide a Direct URL to the entry<\/strong> \u2013 One mistake agencies that submit multiple entries make is to create a page that shows all of the entries and uses the same URL for all of the entries. It is much better to provide a direct URL for each entry, the judges do not need a landing page to be impressed with your entry, they just want to review the site and multiple sites on the same page increases the chances that they might review the wrong site.<\/p>\n

2) Make sure the URL works<\/strong> \u2013 The last thing you want is to find out that your entry was not judged because the URL was invalid or the changed before the site was reviewed. If the judges can\u2019t see the site, they can\u2019t score it and it will be disqualified. One thing that causes a URL to fail is nominators that include instructions in the URL like \u201cwww.webaward.org – click on the big button\u201d. Instructions belong in the instructions field, not the URL.<\/p>\n

3) Be brief and to the point <\/strong>– The Audience and mission statement helps the judges understand the goals of the site before the review. Their advice is to keep the narrative short and sweet. Who is the site\u2019s audience? What are you trying to accomplish with the site \u2013 direct sales, branding, information, etc? What are some of the features that might not be apparent? These are what the judges are looking for.<\/p>\n

4) List the requirements necessary to view the site <\/strong>\u2013 Some sites using the latest technologies require specific versions of products (Shockwave 11.0 or Adobe Flash version 9.0 for example) or the download of plug ins or executable programs to review an entry. They will be more willing to comply if they know what is expected when they review the entry form. Also, let the judges know if your site only works on Internet Explorer because they may be using other browsers.<\/p>\n

5) Make sure the password works <\/strong>– If the site is password protected, please make sure the user name and password are active until August 15th. This point mirrors Tip #2 – . If the judges can\u2019t see the site, they can\u2019t score it and it will be disqualified. Passwords that change during the competition can be updated by email<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With less than one month to go until the deadline for entering the 12th annual international WebAward competition, we hope to provide a series of hints on how to increase your changes of winning this prestigious Website award. Be sure to check our WMA blog regularly or subscribe to its RSS feed for greater insight […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interactive-briefing","category-webaward"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}