The Yosemite Pride Award was created to award Yosemite homesteaders that have wonderful webpages, meet Y!Geocities guidelines, use Geoguides on every page, Fit the theme of Yosemite, and be a site dedicated to something that other people can use. This program is fairly simple. Sites are nominated by CLs or homesteaders. Then the CLs rate each site for their merit using the selected criteria below.

The first and most important criteria is that the entire site is strictly within the GeoCities Content Guidelines. The site should must have the Geoguide on every page. Homesteaders' sites will be reviewed and all awards will be given out contingent upon the following criteria:

- Does it belong in the hood it's in? How well does it fit in? The site must fit the theme of the Yosemite neighborhood. The theme in this neighborhood is Outdoor Recreation and the Great Outdoors.

(The Homepage must be in GeoCities and in the Yosemite neighborhood)

- Is there imaginative use of programming e.g., Java, JavaScript, DHTML, great HTML, multimedia components, etc.?

- Is the site error free? (spelling, general grammar and broken links or images)

- Does the site have unique content? The site must have some use to other people. In other words it can't be a site exclusively about your friends, or family. You need a site dedicated to something that other people can use.

- How well designed is the site and its usage of graphics? If the site has a "what's new" section then it must be updated at least once every month.

- Is the user interface intuitive and simple?

- Is the visitor invited to participate with the content on the site? (games, contests, stories, educational value, etc.)

This award will fall under the GeoAwards Program and follow the same structure and criteria across all hoods. The one distinction will be the unique name of the award for and chosen by each hood. There will be an Awards Information Area in each hood as well as the main awards page, where homesteaders and visitors can go to find out all about the program and, from there, the winners will promoted. These are some suggestions for the promotion:

1) Winners will be showcased in their neighborhood's Awards Info Page.

2) There will be links to the neighborhoods' Awards Info Pages on the main GeoAwards page.

3) Annual winners will be showcased on GeoCities (on the main neighborhood page, on the GeoCities Awards Info Page, etc.)?

Note that sites in the former-Featured Page Program will all be reviewed and automatically made eligible for this award, first and foremost. These lists will be distributed to the appropriate Awards Chair to review. After this, the following forms of nomination will be considered, in order of priority:

1) Community Leader Nomination - Community Leaders will be able to nominate sites to the Awards Chair using a form that will be set up by the Awards Chair of each hood.

2) Non-CL Nomination - Homesteaders and visitors will be able to nominate sites to the Awards Chair using a form that will be set up by the Awards Chair of each hood.

Each site will only be able to be nominated once to the Awards Chair through the form on the site. Nominations will also be tracked to see who submitted them.

Winners will receive their specific Hood Ornaments (hood-specific awards plaque) to place on their site and link to their neighborhood's Awards Info Page in their hood --- each hood will design and create their own award image. Monthly winners will receive the (YOOSA) Outta Site Award plaque and be displayed from the Main GeoAwards page.