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Kiwi Construction Award |
Trades Award |
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The purpose of the Kiwi Construction Award is to recognize business and industry websites that are "constructed" using good design techniques. When a site is visually pleasing and easy to navigate, it makes your visit much more pleasurable, regardless the content. |
The purpose of the nztrades Trades Award is to recognize trade related business and industry websites that use good graphics and are informative. When a site is selling a business, product or service the information must be relevant and the graphics must support the overall site design. |
Those who give an award to all that apply are usually only interested in promoting their own site. These awards will only be presented to deserving sites. We have a very strict criteria for judging the sites we review. To meet our criteria, you must know what is required and you must prepare your site.
 | English language only. |
| Your site should have an attractive layout, with colors and text that compliment the visual appearance. If graphics are used, the majority of them should be original. |
| Content is very important; however, this award is primarily for design. |
| Consider the load time; try to keep your graphics small and minimize page scrolling. |
| Make it easy for your guests to navigate your site. There should be more than one menu; the back button should never have to be used. |
| If you have a one page website then bookmarks should be used with links. Sites that require visitors to scroll through reams of information are tiring. |
| Avoid using under construction signs, blinking text, all uppercase text, numerous advertisement banners, and pop-up windows for JavaScript warnings or to enter your name. |
| Pornography, profanity, nudity, racism, violence, controversial or offensive material will not be accepted - do not bother submitting these to the nztrades judges!! |
| If you have music we must be able to turn it off (we occasionally make an exception if we really like the site & the music doesn't loop). |
| If your site crashes or locks up our browser we won't give you another attempt. |
| Spelling, grammar and punctuation count! Even we know the difference between to, two & too. |
| The nominated site must be created by the owner. |
| You can only submit your own site for review. |
| If you win an award, your site will be listed among the recipients; a description and link will be included. |
| Recipients are required to display the award graphic and link back to this site. |
| Only the winners will be notified. If you have not heard from us in over two weeks, we are either really busy or you did not win the award at this time. Remember you can always re-submit your site anytime you make changes and updates. |
| Finally, if you win the Trades Award or Construction Award, a note of acknowledgement would be greatly appreciated. These only takes a few seconds, and please never criticise or complain. We are entitled to make our own decisions! In addition, please do not ask us how you can improve your site. We are here to review and give results. |
| New Zealand winners will be given a free listing and link on their local specific industry page (confirmed by email prior to listing) either in the nztrades directory - value $50 or in our Oceania Award Winners page. |
| International winners will be given a listing under the "International Winners Overseas Sites" section of the nztrades directory. |
| New Zealand sites will have the award icon beside their listing to
identify them from other listings.  -award icon |
| Click if you've read all the above and still wish to apply |
| If you wish to try for other awards click on these links where you can apply to over 800 Awards Sites around the world and with Awards Worksheet - track your activities. |
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