Hello fellow WDF'ers, sorry I havent been round recently, things have been mad at my end (work wise its coming out of my ears lol)

 

But after all my planned is work is done, I plan to set-up a new site, called the British web design awards.

 

That is all, speak to you soon lol, bit random but hey

What is the unique selling point of this site, compared to all the other web design award sites? And why only British why not the whole of the uk?

maybe he meant the whole of the uk ? who knows ?

maybe it will be given to sites which are actually good... instead of just whoring yourself out to giant agencies and big business?

 

maybe it will even go so far as to take a good look at standards, usability, accesibility and so on....

 

of course it could just be another crappy "Award for Coca-Cola and M&S" or the usual ****.

What is the unique selling point of this site, compared to all the other web design award sites? And why only British why not the whole of the uk?

 

British == whole of the UK.

 

Might be a good idea, depending how it's marketed. Could be a six-month thing with heats/nominations from different areas/regions.

British == whole of the UK.

 

 

Errr since when...did I miss where it was

 

British = Great Britain

 

Great Britain = Scotland, England and Wales

 

 

UK = Scotland, England, Wales and what's the other contry...errr is it Northern Ireland?

 

 

I know its just a technicality and a geography question really, but if it is intended to be the whole of the UK then you shouldn't start off on the wrong foot by excluding one of the intended countries in the site name.

Do you know many Irish designers Dizi? Your point is valid, but I think the point of using British is that it has certain connotations and excludes, for example, the Germans... whereas thinking of it as excluding the Irish is more of a technicality which only a few people will pick up on. At any rate, "Britain" is now widely accepted as a disambiguation of "The United Kingdom of Britain and Northern Ireland".

 

Anyhow, the heats is a good idea. Not sure how it would work?

Strangely enough Mr. Penguin I do know a few Irish Designer

 

as for terminology the UK would also tell people where the awards are limited to, unless I have missed the part where Germany is now part of the UK. I just think that its better to be technically correct in such things...as even though some people who aren't that good a geography class the GB to include Northern Ireland, it still doesn't make it correct. So I was just asking if it was going to be the whole of the UK or if it was just going to be Britain, as some people may see British and see Northern Ireland as excluded from such awards....hey maybe even some people from Scotland might see British and think they are excluded as they are Scottish, but that might be pushing it a little.

 

 

I apologise to all those I have offended by trying to ask a simple question, and correcting what could be seen by some as them being excluded when they actually are not.

 

 

Personally if it is done right I think it would be ok, but there are already awards in place for such things. I remember as a student my tutor trying to push me to enter them...so there really needs to be a unique selling point to this or it would just fall into the 'ohh no another pointless web design award'.

 

 

Again sorry if that is negative, and good luck to you when you find time to do it.

Ok, well it isnt just another award site.

 

This takes into consideration design, accessibility, marketing, and W3c Standards

 

People can submit any site, and as many sites as they like.

 

It is then checked by a proper human rating, and the site is giving a rating out of 10. Then they can display a W3C like graphic, which when clicked will display its profile page.

 

Its almost like a UK version of the W3C, but taking design into consideration aswell as marketing + normal w3c stuff.

 

Designers can also receive a unique rating, which can be displayed on their site, abit like the BWDA, but rated on awards, and acts as a reference. For example, out of 5, I'd rate myself 3

 

I'm looking for people who wish to help out. It will run along my more social networky site, brandswelove.info

 

BTW, when I say British I meant anyone within the UK really, but yeh UKish then

sounds like a great idea ! if you need any help ask

sounds like it will be a lot of work to administer - after an initial lull, you'll be inundated with submissions - have you got the time to sift through every single website and check everything on every site...great if you do as then it would be worth making a site like that and also submitting to it for the recognition...but I think you might be taking a little too much on.

 

Have you heard of the site The Firm List? The guy who set that up had a huge backlog of companies to register and it took him about 2 years or more to list my company website and that was just listing it - no checking of web standards or anything as it's just a directory.

I'd never heard of the Firm List - just going to have a peek at it.

 

Dizi, I take your point, and technically your right. My response was me more thinking about people outside the United Kingdom who think it's actually just England.

Perhaps it needs to take a leaf out of Yahoo!'s book and call it "UK and Ireland"?

 

I think going down the "award" site route runs the risk of producing "yet another showcase" type site so you'd need to pitch it with a unique angle/approach. The idea about vetting sites based on quality of coding, accessibility etc I think is good - presumably *just* having a glossay Photoshopped design won't get you listed?

 

Maybe you could restrict entries only from freelancers?

 

For the eventuality of getting too many submissions maybe you could stipulate that not all submissions will be added. This gives you the chance to skip through submissions and only review the ones that catch your eye - this would dramatically reduce your workload, and hopefully increase the overall quality of your content.

possibly you could work on a rewards-based system with your reviews?

 

all sites are automatically posted to a "heap" of designs, and users can rate them. Once a design reaches 12 (best and worst removed, to make it 10) ratings with an average of 8/10 it is passed on to the official review team to make the final say on whether it is longlisted.

 

Once every 12 months, the longlist is trimmed down to 4 or 6 websites, and this is then chosen by a seperate review team for the final awards. There could easily be several longlists for various categories (Best newcomer, best use of flash, most semantic code, cleanest CSS, most accesible, and Best Overall to name a few).

 

Anyhow, that is roughly how I would see it working in order to encourage community participation as well as reduce your workload.

 

You might even be able to offer incentives to users to rate + review, based on an advert/sponsor-supported revenue?

What about me? tss nobody think about the rest of the world here...

nope...

 

you could always set up a Canadian web awards?

you could always set up a Canadian web awards?

 

lol.. so now it's "The UK and Ireland, British Commonwealth and ex-Commonwealth Web Awards"

"The Worldwide web awards except this time Worldwide doesn't just mean USA" awards

"The Worldwide web awards except this time Worldwide doesn't just mean USA" awards

 

haha.

 

Some of these ideas are very good people, keep them coming, I like the social networky idea.

 

I think I will be going down the hand judge each site. This will be done through a panel (of yet to be asked) internet genuis's who can grade the sites according to their expertise.

 

Getting a reward from this isnt going to be handed out willy nilly, its an actual, (and I hope) cherished award