How To Win The Colchis Awards

Golden Fleece Award for Excellence:
The Golden Fleece Award for Excellence is a special recognition presented to a website based on a review of the total quality and professionalism of the website. There are four (4) ways that a website can be nominated for the Golden Fleece Award for Excellence. Someone that has their own website can request a review of their website for the purpose of receiving a Golden Fleece Award for Excellence by simply submitting the online Golden Fleece Award for Excellence Award Application or sending an email to the Colchis webmaster. The Colchis staff is scans for websites and independently reviews websites that meet the Golden Fleece Award for Excellence criteria. Also, Colchis frequently receives news of a website from someone that visited the website and felt that Colchis should review the website as a possible Golden Fleece Award for Excellence recipient.

Golden Fleece Award for Excellence Review Criteria
	The website should be principally created, managed, and maintained by the website owner. The website owner does not have to be the original web designer and they need not absolutely have to be the individual producing the website content, but they do have to clearly demonstrate that they are responsible for the web design and have the ultimate say regarding the website content. The website owner will receive a better review where it is clear that they function as the webmaster for the website.
	The website should have a professional look and feel with all content tastefully presented in a manner that works to establish and build in the mind of any visitor a clear impression the website owner's personality and professionalism.
	Information presented on the website should be clearly factual with respect to specific details regarding the description of the products and/or services offered through or by the website owners.
	The website should be easy to navigate. Any website navigation aids should be consistent throughout the website. Website aids such as site maps and a table of contents are especially well received by reviewers.
	The website should include some content in addition to photos, product/service specifications, and company history. Additions such as general information related to the website owner's industry or field of endeavor, a shopping service and external links are a major plus.
	Each webpage on the website should include a title, keywords meta tag, description meta tag, navigation aid, copyright notice, and contact link. There should be no spamming of keywords hidden in the content.
	The graphics included on the website should be presented on a real webpage that ideally includes a background and a caption. If the website includes a Gallery, the gallery photos should be presented on thumbnails that are linked to a larger image that is displayed on a webpage as described above. Websites presenting graphics from a thumbnail image to simply an image URL will receive poor marks for photo presentation.
	The webpages on the website should not include any photos or graphic elements that will make the website load in an extremely slow fashion. The webpage background image (where used) should be one of the first webpage elements to load. The total content for any webpage should not exceed 200K, and no single image should be larger than what can be seen on a single 640x480 display without scrolling.
	The Golden Fleece Award for Excellence is presented only to free websites that do not charge for usage.

Golden Quill Award:
The Golden Quill Award is a special recognition presented to a website providing an outstanding web resource to the public at no charge. There are four (4) ways that a website can be nominated for the Golden Quill Award. The owner or webmaster for the website can request a review of their website for the purpose of receiving a Golden Quill Award by simply submitting the online Golden Quill Award Application or sending an email to the Colchis webmaster. The Colchis staff is scans for outstanding web resource websites meeting the Golden Quill Award criteria. Also, Colchis frequently receives news of an outstanding web resource website from individuals that felt the Colchis staff should review as a potential recipient of the Golden Quill Award recipient.

Golden Quill Award Review Criteria
	The website should be principally created, managed, and maintained with the intent of providing a significant web resource. The website can either be owned and/or operated by a single individual or by a team in an organization, but the primary focus of the website must be that of providing a web resource for all visitors at no charge.
	The website should have a professional look and feel with all content tastefully presented in a manner.
	Information presented on the website should be clearly factual with respect to specific details regarding the description of the featured individual, artist or entertainer. This especially applies to personal statistics and photos.
	The website should be easy to navigate. Any website navigation aids should be consistent throughout the website. Website aids such as site maps and a table of contents are especially well received by reviewers.
	The website should include some content in addition to photo and bio information. Additions such as a shopping service and external links are a major plus.
	Each webpage on the website should include a title, keywords meta tag, description meta tag, navigation aid, copyright notice, and contact link. There should be no spamming of keywords hidden in the content.
	The graphics included on the website should be presented on a real webpage that ideally includes a background and a caption. If the website includes a Gallery, the gallery photos should be presented on thumbnails that are linked to a larger image that is displayed on a webpage as described above. Websites presenting graphics from a thumbnail image to simply an image URL will receive poor marks for photo presentation.
	The webpages on the website should not include any photos or graphic elements that will make the website load in an extremely slow fashion. The webpage background image (where used) should be one of the first webpage elements to load. The total content for any webpage should not exceed 200K, and no single image should be larger than what can be seen on a single 640x480 display without scrolling.
	The Golden Quill Award is presented only to free websites.

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