General Criteria For All Awards

Basic Criteria

Current URL must be submitted.

You must enter the correct URL when you submit your site. If we cannot find your site we cannot grant it an award.

We must be able to reach your site.

When we click on the URL that you submit, your site must exist Lately many free hosts have been shutting off access on many of their higher-traffic sites after they have used a certain amount of bandwidth.

We must be able to understand your site.

Your site must be in English, or have an English version. We do not intend to discriminate against other languages or nationalities, but we can only read in English.

Able to contact the Webmaster.

Since we believe the web and Internet is about communication, we require a way to reach the Webmaster. This can be a mailto: link, a form, or a simple working email address.

Load time must be reasonable.

Your site must load relatively quickly. We expect any page (especially the index page) to load in a minute or two.

Content

Strong content and originality.

Your site must be Community related or related to Law Enforcement . Nothing is totally original, but there should be something new and fresh about your site.

Your site must communicate something.

The internet is primarily about communication, therefore your site must communicate something. This must be a stronger message than "click my banners" or "help me make money". For example, a web log communicates a persons daily life and feelings, a personal site might have someone's pictures and opinions and a business site might inform as to the benefits of a product as well as providing support.

You must display awards.

An awards page or area for the display of award honors should be present on your site.

Design and Layout

Navigation should be useful and well defined.

We want to look around your site and see what you've got to say. You need to provide a good method for doing so. A menu, list of pages, site map, and/or a local search engine are very good ways to accomplish this.

A sense of balance.

This means the site must look good. There must be space between images, tables used effectively and so on.

No under construction signs.

All good web sites are always under construction. Therefore, the presence of under construction images is not necessary and will detract from the chances of winning an award. It is understood, however, that a page here and there may be blank or "under construction" as a site evolves.

Legal And Ethical

Copyrights are respected.

In other words, if you use someone else's work, give them proper credit, and where necessary, you get permission.

Your links which are internal to your site work.

External links do break occasionally (the web is constantly changing) but most of them should be operational.

Your site must be readable.

We must be able to read your text without straining our eyes or our sanity.

Spelling and grammar must be good.

You should spell and grammar check your pages.

Your site must not crash our browser.

We check sites using Internet Explorer 6. If you wish us to use another browser, please note it when you submit your site.

Privacy Policy.

Commercial sites must include a comprehensive privacy policy.

Optional

Other characteristics which will help but are not required include:

Good use of ALT tags on your images.

Effective use of Metatags.

Good use of color.

Some characteristics which, while they will not necessarily cause failure, will detract from your chance of winning an award:

Forced Redirection.

Multiple pop-ups.

Multiple Banners.

Immediate Rejections

All sites are welcome to apply for our awards with the exception of the following.

Any site that uses scripts which we consider to be unethical . These include scripts which modify the back key, trap visitors in the site or popup countless windows.

Any sites with Pornographic or sexually explicit content. We do not link to pornographic sites.

Any sites with Warez, cracks, hacking or hacking-related links or espousing illegal activities will not be considered.

Any sites which are comprised only of links.

Any sites which consist only of advertisements.

Any sites which espouse racism, racial superiority or make derogatory statements about other group based on their color, race, religious belief, or sex.

Any sites which violate steal bandwidth or recommend any illegal activities.

You must be over the age of 14 in order to apply for an award. This is because of a which does not allow children to submit private information without their parents permission.

Any sites which primarily promote MLM schemes.

Any sites which degrades religious beliefs.

Award Application Form

Your Name:*  

Your Age:*  

 (You must be at least 18 years of age to submit your site.)

Your Email Address:	*  

Is this your site or do you manage it:  Yes   No 

Your URL:*  

Give us a little background on your the site you are submitting:*

* Indicates Required Fields

 Upon verifying your request we will evaluate your site submission. This can take as long as four (4) weeks to complete. 

Please be patient as we only award one site per month a gold award, three sites the silver, and five sites the bronze. 

If your site does not make the cut, please contact us for information on what we found could be changed with your 

site to better serve the internet. You may apply every 30 days until you win an award. If you have any questions or are 

in need of feedback to make your site a better place to be, contact the Webmaster at webmaster@fop191.org.

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