Australian Web Awards 2010 are Go!

[tuna]

The 2010 Australian Web Awards are open to all web sites produced primarily by Australian designers and developers in the 2009/2010 financial year.

Nominations are now open until midnight 8 July 2010 (WST).

The Australian Web Awards have been running annually since 2005 with this year being the second year that the awards have been held nationally.

Awards presentation events will be held in Brisbane, Sydney and Perth, with the overall "best of the best" announced at a black tie dinner on the 6th of November in Perth

The categories for 2010 are as follows:

1. Student
2. Blog
3. Virtual – for small and micro businesses without a “real” shopfront
4. Online Retail – online transactional site (payment methods varied) B2C, C2C (with shopfront)
5. Selling to People – for non transactional services focusing on the general public (non-commercial) sector, typically catalogue and brochure sites
6. Enterprise – for non transactional services for commercial use B2B, B2G, G2B,
7. Government – local, state & federal
8. Education
9. Media
10. Arts & Events
11. Not for Profit
12. Innovation
13. Mobile – for sites and applications seen in mobile devices

The National finalists will be the winners from each state grouping for each category, and then a National Most Outstanding will be selected from this final group of Australia-wide winners.

More details - http://webawards.com.au

So get your websites in ASAP.

[tuna]

Bump only 3 weeks to go!!

[tuna]

BUMP

Last Day, closes midnight tonight...

Lots of helpful advice on the Australian Web Awards website

[patricktt]

When are the winners announced? Doesn't seem to mention that anywhere, just when entries close...

[tuna]

Originally Posted by patricktt

When are the winners announced? Doesn't seem to mention that anywhere, just when entries close...

Regional Finalist Oct,
National Finalist Nov

[thezeski]

Hey Gary!

Just wondering when and how long does the judging process run for?

[tuna]

Originally Posted by thezeski

Hey Gary!

Just wondering when and how long does the judging process run for?

First off the judging is all by volunteers in their spare time, so you can't push people.

Mid-July through to beginning of September is the judging period.

Validation is done first to get it out the way.

Some judges get it all done in one weekend, others do a site a night and do a really intense job. Sadly you can't rush volunteers. Its all explained on the web site

[thezeski]

Originally Posted by tuna

First off the judging is all by volunteers in their spare time, so you can't push people.

Mid-July through to beginning of September is the judging period.

Validation is done first to get it out the way.

Some judges get it all done in one weekend, others do a site a night and do a really intense job. Sadly you can't rush volunteers. Its all explained on the web site

Ah cool

It wasn't about the length of time, I can completely understand that. Our site has a client accessible CMS so I was just wondering how long I had to keep an eye on the site for changes that might cause it to lose it's perfect mark-up.

[tuna]

Originally Posted by thezeski

Ah cool

It wasn't about the length of time, I can completely understand that. Our site has a client accessible CMS so I was just wondering how long I had to keep an eye on the site for changes that might cause it to lose it's perfect mark-up.

validation - a few weeks.
accessibility - well depends.. on the judges