Criteria
German
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The award should be unique
EUTODA promote all programs that offers an award. A review will normally take approximately between 4 to 6 weeks to be completed.
All applicants will need to meet the following minimum requirements to be considered for any level.
Mandatory requirements criteria are:
* Must be family friendly with no
obscene language or graphics, illegal activity or links to the same.
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The content must be free of slang and abbreviations.
* A copyright statement must reside on the
web site and the award program must have a clearly
visible link towards a privacy statement as well as a code of ethics.
* The award program must be in either
Italian, English, German, French or Spanish or have a translated version into
these languages.
* All pages must be ready for viewing, links
and images should all work. All graphics should be optimized to a minimal
loading time (This means no longer than 1.5 minutes on a 56K dial-up modem).
* The submitter must be the webmaster/owner of the award program.
* The web site and all graphics created
must be original and of high quality, and as a whole, should be in
harmony. Also, should have a design theme
which is consistent through the entire web
site. Dedication and attention to detail should be evident. (Original means
created by you and not another author or source).
* The award graphic displayed on EUTODA
should be not bigger as 200 pixels width and 200 pixels in height
and not more than 15 KB in size.
* The Award program must have an
applications form and an e-mail alternative.
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The award program must have a winners list section.
What we do not like and will lose points:
* Horizontal scrollbars at either 800x600 or 1024x768
resolution.
* Requirement to sign the guestbook to win your
award.
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AP displaying different designs without a purpose.
Immediately disqualification criteria are:
* If site contains porn, discrimation or
racism of any kind.
* Promotion of illegal activities and if
promotes hatred, violence, jingoism, intolerance.
* Applications from young persons under 16
years of age.
* Copied images from another web site, that are
in violation of copyright.
* Making use of any graphics or text which
are not created by you, and used without permission without giving
proper credit to the original author.
* Under Construction or coming soon signs.
* Sites with script errors or visible HTML
fragments.
* If your code causes my computer to crash.
* Badges
that are not displayed will be revoked, your name and URL will go into a revoke
folder (-R-).
The web site's URL should not be present on any award graphic!
Websites that meet requirements listed above, will received an email response within 72 hours. Then it will soon appear in the STATUS page.
Other basic conditions:
Please keep in mind, that the fundamentals and main characteristics of this program are focused on
detail, and on the artistic aspect of your web site. Of equal importance is the design of your award
graphic.
EUTODA's judges will review your award program accurately and base their scoring as
follows;
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the winners list, artistic aspect of your web site, and that of your award graphic will carry 60% of the total score.
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30% is allocated to the content/idea of your award program. It is logical that your award program must have a scope, a purpose, and a clear reason to be online.
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The remaining 10% are assigned to ease of navigation which is fundamental in every web site.
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The award program must be active for more than: |
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| Lev. 1 | Lev. 2 | Lev. 3 | Lev. 4 | Lev. 5 | Lev. 6 |
| 1 Month | 3 Months | 6 Months | 9 Months | 12 Months | 18 Months |
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The award pr. must at least have award winners as stated below: |
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| Lev. 1 | Lev. 2 | Lev. 3 | Lev. 4 | Lev. 5 | Lev. 6 |
| 5 | 10 | 15 | 20 | 40 | 50 |
| With 0-1 Outstanding Winners | With 3 Outstanding Winners | With 5 Outstanding Winners | With 10 Outstanding Winners | With 20 Outstanding Winners | With 30 Outstanding Winners |
If a URL is not working after 3 retries, your web site will be removed from this web site. You can make a suspension request for your award program if it's inactive, otherwise, we will remove those web sites who are offline from EUTODA and awards removed can submit again after SIX (6) months.
Re-submissions are welcome if 90 days have elapsed since the last evaluation, provided that you have made significant improvements to your award program. For an upgrade one can likewise apply after 120 days (date starting from the time you received the rating level). In the event that you change your award program's URL, please notify EUTODA to avoid any broken links.
We reserve the right to change our criteria at any time.
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