The
First Award my original page received arrived out of the blue without entering any
competition.
I
was very surprised and pleased with it and to this day am
not really sure what is was for.
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The
second one was not an award as such. I stumbled across a
competition being conducted by Sanlam ( an assurance company
here in South Africa) and I was allowed to download and
install "an award" for being an entrant.
 
I
came within the first 17 places or so in the category I
entered. I was really pleased with myself as I put all
the linked pages together in about 3 hours and made the
deadline with about 5 minutes to spare. It was also my
very first attempt in a competition.
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May
1999
Awarded
According to the following criteria.:
1.
No Business Sites. Personal Pages Only.
2. Your site must get my attention. You have to impress
me.
3. Good readable text.
4. Good graphics.
5. I don't like, "File Not Found", please make
sure all links work.
6. No abusive language or pornography.
7. Must be suitable for all ages.
8. Site must be in English. Sorry but that is the only
language I know.
Superfoxme Award
Winners Page
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Your
site review has been completed.
Congratulations!
Sites are judged based upon overall appearance, speed,
navigation, use of
technology and quality of content. We also take into
consideration the amount of
time and effort that goes into developing a web site and
like to award your efforts.
We
found your site to offer our
Internet community a great service.
Again, Congratulations.
May
1999
June
1999
Great
homepage. I really enjoyed my visit !!!
Thanks for inviting me to see your page.
Have a great day! Keep up the great work!
Tyler and his mommy.
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June
1999
I truely
enjoyed your site, and while you
asked for the golden home award, and although
your
site is completely family oriented, I feel it's
deserving of the
Golden
Rose Award.
It's refreshing
to hear of such a happy and close knit family, and
particularly refreshing to see it on a web page.
You have a beautiful family, and the twins
are adorable!
Congratulations.
Dhari Blythestone
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June
1999
June 1999
Very nice
page.
I think I visited it once before a while back,
before I designed my awards.
I had lost the link then.
I am glad you resent it to me.
I am honored to offer you the
Pearls
of the Web Award.
Congratulations!!
Vicki
dnsouthldy@aol.com
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June
1999
Keith,
I enjoyed your page very much and I also surfed through
your
families pages as well.
Thank you for visiting my site and I sure hope you signed
the guestbook.
Will have to go and check that out now!
HAHA!
Congradulations and you have a happy and safe day!
Christy
9 June
1999
My awards only go to sites
I've
enjoyed visiting and found to be
above average in design, content
and entertainment. Your awards
are customized to what I found in
your site that impressed me.
.My first Poetry Award
8 June 1999 07:39
Upon
reviewing your poetry pages, I found rare talent and
truly hope you keep on writing. I did travel to the
rest of your site and am presenting you with this award
for your poetry pages.
Two other
very worthwhile links given to me by Stitches.
"The Hands of Time"
Calgary
Chronic Pain Support Society
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"I
hope this does not cost me future awards"
7
June 1999
The Strutting Frog Award
I applied for this
award and never received it!. In terms
of absolute honesty and fairness, two fundemental
principles to which I subscribe I want to publish their
open and honest feed back and my response to them. The
following is the actual text received from them.
"Hi!
I just wanted to let you know we had 'hopped on by'.
When a site doesn't get the award we like to let 'em
know why. It's not fair to leave you in the dark! The first thing anyone sees of your web page is what shows up in the
browser window. The first thing you say is that
this page is much faster than your old one.
This tells a new visitor like me that your old page
was not nearly as good (Is this what you really want to
tell new visitors?). Your past visitors will see that
this is faster - and your new visitors don't really need
to know this! You ask people to turn on their sound to
fully enjoy the page - but you give no hint as to why
they would want to do this. This request is not bad as a
whole - but a new visitor has no idea of what your page
has to offer and audio input is not very interesting when
you have no idea what you are missing. Asking people to
bookmark your page is cool - but only when they know what
it is they are asked to bookmark. If I asked you to
bookmark my page after offering you next to no
information on it - would you? I wouldn't, and I didn't.
There is something here for everyone. See the links
below. This is a broad statement - and you can't really
offer information that is interesting to everyone. Some
people seek child pornography or bomb making instructions
- you don't WANT to offer something for everyone. The guest book request is nice - but out of place. Do
you want people to sign your guest book before they view your page? It makes it
kind of meaningless don't you think? Your family web pages are excellent! Your pages are easy to
navigate and are both interesting and endearing. Offering
a PO box for mail is quite intelligent and I applaud you
for getting one. On the net it is the safest way to
go.Your poetry
is wonderful. I enjoyed every one! Your old home page is an interesting display of your web
design improvement - but is there really a point to it?
Your new page
is a vast improvement. Your family photos are nice - but
this is not what your page offers. You offer many links
to great pages - but I don't really want to see what
pages you like; I want to see what you have to say. If
you are seeking visitors from family and friends - your
page is just fine. Not a Strutting Frog Page
- but a nice family page just the same. If you are
seeking visitors other than family and friends
you will need to make a few changes to make your page
interesting. Generic Joe doesn't want to know about your
family - he/she wants to know about your personal web
content and information. Anyone can link to web pages
about travel information in their area - if you would offer a bit
of personal insight about this information it would be
useful and interesting. You have excellent poems. Why not
feature your own writing? Many people write about their
families - but few offer poetry.
You have something unusual and unique to offer your
visitors. People can find links everywhere. Make your
poetry available in the start of your page - and don't
offer people the world - just yourself. I think you will
gain more faithful page visits this way.
Mary Benlan
Home of the Strutting Frog Award
http://www.camp-a-roo.com/
My response to
Mary Benlan
Home of The Strutting Fox Award
"Hello Mary,
At first I thought who the hell are you to say some of
the things you said about my page. I suppose I was really
disappointed about not receiving the award after I had
received others with relative ease. Then I thought, damn
you I will get a Strutting Fox Award, even if I die in
the process. The Strutting Fox Award will
appear on this page some time in the future. Thank you
for your honest feedback it has made me look at my site
through someone elses eyes. I really value all the other
awards my page has received ( and feel that those who
awarded them to me did so because I met their criteria
and deserved them). I am determined to place The
Strutting Frog Award on my page - so keep an eye out for
http://www.oocities.org/Heartland/Meadows
/4772/bendorsafrican2.html
being submitted again after some serious panel beating,
at a future date, for reconsideration. Please let me know
if you are prepared to reconsider at a later stage. If
you would like to give me some more critique on my page
just sock it to me. I can take it now that I have
recovered and composed myself.
Kind Regards
p.s. Thanks for your encouraging words
about my poetry
!"
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