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CSS World Awards Winners 2006

Friday Jul 07, 2006 · Filed under: Winners

The announcement day is here. First of all, we would like to say THANKS to the judges, sponsors and the high level in terms of nominees that we think have been high. That's why we had to apply different rules to award some sites that were tied.

For the next year we will work harder and better with all your help, the valuable help from our visitors.

Scoring criteria for the winners in each category

Each member of the judges has chosen the 3 websites they considered the best in each category:

1º position in each category - 3 points

2º position in each category - 2 points

3º position in each category - 1 point

Criteria to untie websites in each category

Due to some websites having same score and to the multiple ties by category, CSS Mania has set 5 criterias.

(A). If there are tied websites in terms of points, the untied website will be the one that has received more first positions (3 points) in that category from the judges.

(B). If there are still tied websites, the untied website will be the one that has been awarded more times in other categories.

(C). If there are still tied websites, we will add the points that websites have obtained in other categories.

(D). If there are still tied websites, we will analyze validation errors from the screenshot URL in CSS Manía.

(E). If there are still tied websites, it will be "ex aequo". That's why we will really have tied websites in the same place and the award will go to both of them.

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CSS World Awards Prizes

Thursday Jul 06, 2006 · Filed under: Prizes

As we previously announced, the idea of the awards is not getting rich. It is just a recognition for web developers working with CSS & XHTML.

Prizes will be like this

• T-shirts: A t-shirt for each of the winners (1st place) in each category. Thanks to our New Orleans friends at Dirtycoast.
• Crazy Egg licenses: A Crazy Egg license for each of the winners (1st place) in each category.
• 3 CSS books: A CSS book for each of the winners in the category Site of the Year. Originally, the winners will be contacted and they will decide the book they want (as long as amazon can deliver them).

Winners & Prizes

Wednesday Jul 05, 2006 · Filed under: Prizes - Winners

Winners will be announced Friday 7th July 2006. Prizes will be announced tomorrow 6th July 2006. For the people asking if there will be another round for the CSS World Awards; yes, next year.

T-Shirts For Winners

Monday Jun 19, 2006 · Filed under: Prizes

We plan to announce the prizes during this week and the next one, before announcing the winners.

One of the prizes for the winners in each category nominations will be a sexy t-shirt designed by us and sponsored/provided by our New Orleans friends at Dirtycoast.

What colour do you prefer?

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Nominees: Developers by Country

Tuesday Jun 06, 2006 · Filed under: Nominees

81 websites.

• North America (46)
  1. US (41)
  2. Canada (5)
• Europe (26)
  1. United Kingdom (13)
  2. Croatia (2)
  3. Netherlands (2)
  4. Austria (1)
  5. Belgium (1)
  6. Czech Republic (1)
  7. Denmark (1)
  8. Germany (1)
  9. Italy (1)
  10. Romania (1)
  11. Spain (1)
  12. Sweden (1)
• Oceania (5)
  1. Australia (4)
  2. New Zealand (1)
• Malaysia (1)
• South Africa (1)
• United Nations (Greece + Cyprus + USA= 1)
• Unknown (1)

CSS World Awards Nominations

Monday Jun 05, 2006 · Filed under: Nominees

10 categories. Finally, 10 websites in each of the categories. For each category: One Winner and two finalists. The awarded sites will be announced at the beginning of July.

Remember, we have also prepared some branding stuff to help promote the event and for the nominees to include in their websites. Being nominated doesn't mean a link back to us.

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Contest Rules

Tuesday May 30, 2006 · Filed under: Announcements

• Only websites that are included in CSS Mania from May 2005 to May 2006 will be awarded.
• 10 categories will be awarded.

  First 9 awards will go to each of the main categories that can be seen in our archive. Last award will be what we will call Year's Site. As follows:

  1. Site of the Year
  2. Associations
  3. Blogging
  4. Business
  5. Entertainment
  6. Institutions
  7. Media
  8. Portal
  9. Web Design (Companies and Portfolios)
  10. Web Tools
• A webpage can be nominated in several categories.
• Aproximately 100-150 websites will be announced 5th June as nominees for the awards. 10-15 websites in each of the categories. We have also prepared some branding stuff to help promote the event and for the nominees to include in their websites. Being nominated doesn´t mean a link back to us.
• Judges will select the 3 awarded websites in each category.
• The awarded sites will be announced at the beginning of July.
• No Blogs Media websites nor Judges' websites will be included in the contest.

The Judges

5 well-known developers by the Web Standards community:

Andy Budd

Andy is the managing director of ClearLeft, a user experience consultancy based in Brighton, England. He runs Skillswap which organises free web design training for his local community, and helped set up the Web Standards Awards.

Cameron Moll

Cameron is freelance new media designer, author, and speaker. Who hasn´t talked about him during the last years?. Who hasn´t talked about him and his amazing portfolio within the last month?.

Molly E. Holzschlag

Molly is a well-known Web standards advocate, instructor, and author. She is Group Lead for the Web Standards Project (WaSP) and an invited expert to the HTML and GEO working groups at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

Roger Johansson

Roger is a Swedish web professional. He's currently working as a front-end web developer at NetRelations, a web consultancy in Göteborg (Gothenburg), Sweden. Roger is focused in web standards, accessibility, and usability.

Sergio Villareal

Sergio is a writer/artist born and living in our beloved Mexico. He's a compulsive reader, web technologies fanatic and movie lover. He's currently working at Slide.