For your information, we’ve provided a list of sites which offer awards for web pages and Websites based upon different criteria: design, layout, structure, content, accessibility, and overall quality. If you are interested in winning awards for your web page design and development, make sure your site is award-winning first and then you may submit it to one of these listed below or found by searching the internet for “site awards” or “Website awards”. These award-giving sites are not all free and may require a participation fee, and they change frequently, so do let us know if a site listed is not found to help us keep this list up-to-date.
The qualities of an award-winning site include:
- Easy to read
- Easy to access and navigate
- Clean and clear design and layout
- Meets Web Standards
- Using interesting and/or novel eye catching techniques
- Presents information in a distinctive way
- Contains well proofed quality information and content
Each site has their own criteria, so read through the fine print thoroughly before submitting your site to see that you are meeting their criteria and not wasting their time.
Articles and Information About Winning Website Awards
- Article about Website awards tips, advice, and criteria
- Anatomy of an Award Winning Site
- Winning Awards and Award program Basics
- The Webmaster’s Guide to Glory! How to Win the Top Web Awards
- Creating a Winning Website
- Awards Scoop: Information and Resources About web site Awards
- Research on the Benefits of web site Awards
Truly Exceptional Site Awards
- @Websites Award
- 10 Best
- An Award of Excellence
- Comedy Cool Site Award
- Chris’ World Award
- Driftwood Mark of Excellence
- Dystini’s Excellence Award
- EggCellent Award
- Featured Site Award
- Great Site Award
- HotSpots
- Jayde Diamonds
- Nuclear Winter
- Pink Quill Award
- Riddler’s Choice
- Top Site Award
- Website of the week
- Wild Top Site Award
- WS Award
HTML Awards
Site Design Awards
- Design Excellence
- Gems’ Award of Excellence
- A HELICOPTERS AWARD
- Market-Tek Design Award
- PeaceWork Certified Site Award
- Website Excellence
- WebNet
- Wow Web Designs
Graphics Awards
Resource AwardsManual
Business-related Awards
Non-Commercial & Homepage Awards
- Cyberbrat’s Award of Greatness
- Excellent Home Page Award
- Jeffrey’s Excellence Homepage
- Loveherald Personals
Awards with special requirements
- Alaska Website Award
- Animals in Distress Award
- BizWeb2000 Gold
- The Blue Maxwell
- Castles Site of the Week
- Catholic Family Site Award
- Creative Website Award
- CyberiaPC Award of Excellence
- eCOLOGY Award
- Editor’s Choice Award
- The EnviroAward
- The Fly With Eagles Award
- Freedom Award
- Freedom to Be
- Fromper Award
- Goddess Website of the Day
- The Gold Tin Award
- The Golden Weasel Award
- Great Singers Great Site Award
- Greywlf’s Website Excellence
- The Gulf Palace Award
- Horse Directory Supreme Site
- Inspirational Gold Award
- ‘Keep It Real’ Web Excellence
- Literary Content Award
- McMeekan’s Awards
- Medical Online Excellence
- Monthly Education Hot Site
- Mrs. Gottrocks Diamond Award
- Music Award of Excellence
- Muslim Site Award
- The “Nellie” Awards
- Okie Gold Award
- Outstanding Science Site Award
- The Owners Rights Award
- The Paradigm Award
- The QuizQueen’s Trivia Fix
- Rin’s Award for Contribution
- The Show Awards
- Spreading Agape’ Award
- Starbase 133 LCARS Net award
- Stellar Link Award
- Temple of Dawn Rose Award
- Tribute to Pets Award
- Tourism Promote Award
- The Ultimate Emulation Award
- Web Knight Award
- The Website Excellence Award
- Website101 A+ Award
- Website Integrity Award
- Weekly Gazette A Content Award
- Westerwald-Award
- Wirthit’s Award Of Excellence
- World Girl Website Award
To help you with your web page submissions we’ve included this list of sites giving out awards for web pages and Websites as well as lists for the top search engines, search engines and directories, special search engines and directories, and we even have a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet which combines all these lists into one easy-to-use layout form for downloading.
For more information on how to prepare your Website and web pages for submission to search engines and directories, take time to read our article series on web page validation and preparation for search engine submissions. We also have listed extensive information in our article series on web page design to help you create the best possible “search engine friendly” and user-friendly Website.
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