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The Lord Baden-Powell Award
 
For Scouting Excellence
On The World-Wide-Web
 
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Does Your Site Qualify?  
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The 'Basic' Award Grant Criteria
All nominated Web-sites that are submitted for this award will be considered if they exhibit the following attributes:

  1. Scouting / Guiding Related - Sites must be Boy / Girl Scouting or Guiding oriented.

  2. Non-Profit - Sites must be not-for-profit efforts. Sites that seek to sell products or services can not be considered.

  3. CONTENT! CONTENT! CONTENT! - Please do not nominate a site if it is still in the early stages of construction! Your Unit's name, e-mail address, and links to other people's sites just won't make it! We feel that the inclusion of extensive and / or unique content matter far outweighs elegant design style and borrowed Java Scripts.

  4. Service - "Efficiency for service towards others." In the founder's words, the candidate site must provide a Guiding/Scouting-related service to their Unit members and / or families, their communities, or Scouting and Guiding in general.

  5. Technical Excellence - This aspect of the award selection process will be a measure of the technical quality of the Web-site i.e. :
    • Is the site design pleasing to the user?
    • Have the site designers used graphics advantageously?
    • Can you read the text through the background?
    • Is the site well organized?
    • Can you navigate the site easily?
    • Is there anything about the site that is detracts from its 'message'?
    • Does the look, feel, and content make a user want to bookmark it?
    • Do Image references resolve appropriately.
    • Is the HTML code well written, with minimal errors?
    • Do 'Hyper-links' resolve as intended.
    • Use of Frames, Shockwave, ActiveX, and other recent technologies are neither grounds for elimination nor award. What is important though is that, when used, these tools allow a majority of users (i.e. i486+ or PPC, running IE 3+ or Netscape 3+) to successfully navigate the site.

    A Final Note
    All evaluations are subjective. Different people see different things that they like or dislike. Knowing this, please be assured that you are receiving a fair cross-sectional evaluation that has included the input of several EXPERTS from differing cultures, Scout/Guide Organizations, and age groups!

 

 

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