Yahoo website awards

[-=Seth=-]

Have you seen this years yahoo websites awards
Yahoo!'s annual awards for the most interesting and innovative websites of the year
http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/finds2006/

i dont get it, i looked at the shopping sites expecting to be impressed and they were just average, mediocre sites

i just had an idea lets have a statscounter website awards, winner can put banner on their site '2006 statscounter award,' actually we can have a different catergory for every entry that way every body will win. okay i need to shut up now

[geordie joe]

Have you seen this years yahoo websites awards

http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/finds2006/

i dont get it, i looked at the shopping sites expecting to be impressed and they were just average, mediocre sites

i just had an idea lets have a statscounter website awards, winner can put banner on their site '2006 statscounter award,' actually we can have a different catergory for every entry that way every body will win. okay i need to shut up now

Count me in, but how do we persuade Sharron to design the banner?

[JustPo]

winner can put banner on their site '2006 statscounter award,'
ummmmm....... it is 2007. :)
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[gourangaoo4u]

just ask Sharron very nicely...shes the best person for the job without a doubt

[lemons]

If Sharron will not do it then I will.....

What about a 'Best Banner award' also :-D

[NeilB]

ummmmm....... it is 2007. :)
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Oh - be fair - it still correct if you allow less that 1% margin for error.....:-D

Cheers
Neil

[StevenofNine]

Not only questionable, but the winner of the people's choice award doesn't WORK in FF2.0. The site's nothing but menus, and content doesn't display.

The UK Yahoo! team is apparently a bunch of amateurs.

[geordie joe]

If Sharron will not do it then I will.....

What about a 'Best Banner award' also :-D

We need two of those, Best Banner Designer Award and Web Site With Best Banner Award.

There can be no doubt that I will win one of those :-D

[geordie joe]

ummmmm....... it is 2007. :)
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Yes but you can't have the 2007 awards until 2007 is over.

[geordie joe]

Weird & Wonderful Find of the Year 2006: Trolley Spotting

It's just a site with maps showing where the guy spotted abandoned shopping trolleys!

[Sharron]

lol, well I'd love to do something. But don't you think we would need Statcounters blessing and support to hold such a event?

I've in if they are. hmmmmmmmmmmm does that mean we have to excluded all statcounter users from participation? That would exclude a load of folks.

[geordie joe]

lol, well I'd love to do something. But don't you think we would need Statcounters blessing and support to hold such a event?

I've in if they are. hmmmmmmmmmmm does that mean we have to excluded all statcounter users from participation? That would exclude a load of folks.

I think you missed the point Sharron.

We have a catagory for each stacounter forum users web site, that way we all win and can display the banner on our web sites.

Best games Site Award
best model plane site award
Best Glassinsparations site award

get the picture?

[NeilB]

I think you missed the point Sharron.

We have a catagory for each stacounter forum users web site, that way we all win and can display the banner on our web sites.

Best games Site Award
best model plane site award
Best Glassinsparations site award

get the picture?

Once again I am sat at my computer laughing....

What are you lot like!!!:-D :-D

Don't forget

Best RV and Camping site
Best Personal Art and Drawings site
Best Football Forum site
Best 'The truth about Pakistan' Site


Etc etc etc./

Hey I have no issues with getting awards - however they are awarded....

I just hope I'm the only game site or I'm buggered......

Cheers
Neil

[geordie joe]

Hey I have no issues with getting awards - however they are awarded....

I just hope I'm the only game site or I'm buggered......

Neil

Good thinking Neil

Nominations for the best game site and best jigsaw site are now closed, as are nominations for all other catagories, including the ones we haven't thought of yet. :)

[NeilB]

Good thinking Neil

Nominations for the best game site and best jigsaw site are now closed, as are nominations for all other catagories, including the ones we haven't thought of yet. :)

Mate

Consider yourself automatically on my panel of judges for any given contest....

Liking your style:-D

Neil

[NeilB]

But don't you think we would need Statcounters blessing and support to hold such a event?


But how could they turn us down having been the clear winners of the 'Best Statcounter Site':-D :-D :-D

Cheers
Neil

[geordie joe]

But how could they turn us down having been the clear winners of the 'Best Statcounter Site':-D :-D :-D

Cheers
Neil

Especially if all banners link back to statcounter.

[China Tea]

Seth wrote in part:

i dont get it, i looked at the shopping sites expecting to be impressed and they were just average, mediocre sites

But I am sure they have purchased a lot of the add-ons that Yahoo offers . . . That alone will qualify them for the awards.:-D (me and my sour grapes)

[trackerm]

, i looked at the shopping sites expecting to be impressed and they were just average, mediocre sites

Yes, we all expect something extra special. But thats one of the points to be gleaned:

Your site can be as good
Super sites don't necessarily work
All the sites had an EXCELLENT intro paragraph
Content rules over tech crap and wank
I saw only one case of self indulgent W3C buttons
See a product and you see the price and have a thing to tick or click to buy
Navigation on every page so wherever you are you can get wherever else.
Property law for the internet: Niche Niche Niche
Great banners
Good quality photos. No pixilation
No advertising, ad words, google ads etc
Good "About" pages where website owners use their real name and give something of themselves.
an instant trustworthiness that must come from a blend of all the points.What I was not impressed with:

Still 'tram tracks': blank empty spaces on the left and right of pages
Photos didn't expand to big Bigger and HUGE!!! I want to see the product up close.Best website intro paragraph: "You can help save a dog's life by registering your pet as a potential blood donor today!" 17 words and I know exactly what the site is about, if I am going to be interested in staying, what I have to do, and there is an honesty and integrity in those words that means I am ready and willing to pay. The tag line "Remember, dogs can be heroes too!" just makes me want to cry. http://www.dogblooddonors.com/


So with all that one of the worst sites IMHO was one of the winners! http://www.cowforce.com/ oh so tricky... but I dont know what its about.

[-=Seth=-]

all excellent points but i expect them as minimum standards for any shopping site and there are millions which are equally as good, mine i hope included.
to win an award from such a large company as yahoo i would expect something revolutionary, i wanted wow factor

[China Tea]

I wonder if revenue generating capability or traffic popularity or page ranking was factored in. I imagine that an award winning site would have a high volume of sales or traffic . . .

Just a thought . . .