The Good Squirrel Twin Award - For providing exceptional content that helps people by building community, educating, informing, or providing superior service.

PURPOSE:

The best thing someone can do with a web site is to help someone else. There are sites that deserve recognition for their service to the public -- sites that help children, agencies that provide for the homeless and organizations with benevolent goals. There are also many business entities that make significant contributions to the community in any number of ways. It is charities, institutions, and businesses like these that are eligible to receive the Good Squirrel Twin Award.

 

CRITERIA/SCORING:

Only sites that benefit society or the individual in some way are eligible. 

We do not accept:

  • Sites that contains pornography, hate, political propaganda, or violence.

  • Sites that promote SPAM, UCE or bulk mail services, Warez or password sites.

  • Sites that are involved with pyramid schemes or any activity that is illegal.

  • We reserve the right to accept or reject a site for any reason.

We evaluate and award points to sites based on the following:

CONTENT (50 Points)

Content is the essence of any quality Website and that is why the majority of points  (50%) are given for the value and importance of the site's content. We compare a site's content to other similar sites of top quality, as well as judging it on its own merits.

DESIGN (10 points) Does the design of your site look different from all the other sites out there? Is there good use of graphics, pictures, layout, etc.? Does your site stand out from the rest? Is the design clean, or is it scattered all over the place?
TECHNOLOGY (10 Points) Do you make appropritae and good use of new technology on your site? Example: CGIs, RealAudio, RealVideo, Dynamic Pages (ASP, CFM, etc.), DHTML, Javascript, Java, Active X, etc.
ORIGINALITY ( 10 Points) Is your site original, or is it a copy of someone else's? Do you use new techniques, or are you doing things that a million people have already done? Are you using your own writing, or are you borrowing it?
OVERALL IMPRESSION (20 Points) Our overall impression of your site. When we take all the aspects of your site and put them together, this is what we get.

A web site with a point score of 80 or higher will receive the award.  Apply Now.

 Disclaimer:
"The items, homepages, web sites, products and matters discussed and reviewed in Squirrel Twins Web Site  Awards represent the opinion (good, bad or indifferent) of the maintainers themselves, and are not meant as representations of fact by any person, nor are such opinions the opinions of any person, group, company or entity other than the maintainers. Also, the inclusion of hyperlinks in this website does not in any way constitute an endorsement of any products or services that may be offered on such a linked site, nor does it indicate any commercial relationship between website providers."