1. Award size and format

Your awards can be in any size or format, but if you want that they receive high rating levels theu must be made in the stamp format and with the size of 100x140 pixels or less, in this case is 100 pixels height and 140 pixels width.

Tecnically the pixel is the smaller element in a device of exhibition (computer monitor), to which is possible attribute itself a color.

Translating, the pixel is a measure that corrsepond to light points in a video monitor, to a density of 300 dpi a pixel is equal to 0,085 milimeters. Calculating for highly, in an object of a centimeter of width we find around 32 pixels and in an award with 100 pixels of width will have a width of around 3.5 centimeters.

If you consider that stayed very difficult create a so limited prize you will be able to go to 200x200 pixels, but some prizes classification entities will be able to do not like prizes outside of the standard desired...


2. Kind of awards

An award program can grant only one award or a big range of awards, in agreement we are going to see it follow.

If you opt for grant only one award you will be able to give a name or title to this award and he can be like the model down:

In that case you are going to impose the quantity of points that the site should obtain for receive the award. Treats-itself of an award that requires a quick and simpler judgment, you only will decide if grant or not the award.

Some award program, however, can grant a big number of awards with a basic same design that will form a set or joint, as the models that present down:

Regarding the models presented above we like to explain the following topics, that are of the biggest importance:

• Rio Awards -> This is the name of the award program (sample);

• The golden ball with a laurel -> This is the theme of the award;

• Gold, Silver, Bronze, Merit and Cum Laude-> These are the cathegories in that the award is granted, depending of the points that the site received in the reviewing;

• Your site here -> In this place we put the name of the winner website, this is important for the safety of the awards;

Now we will describe each one of these award cathegories:

• Gold Award -> It is the maximum category, granted to sites that has reached an equal or bigger punctuation than eighty points;

• Silver Award -> It is the second category, granted to sites that has obtained an equal or bigger punctuation than seventy points;

• Bronze Award -> It is to third category, granted to sites that has achieved an equal or bigger punctuation than sixty points.

• Merit Award -> It is the fourth category, granted to sites that has obtained an equal or bigger punctuation than fifty points;

• Cum Laude Award -> Cum Laude is an expression in Latin that signifies "with accolade", some sites are interesting but do not achieve the necessary punctuation for receive one of the awards, for these sites some award program owners like to grant a Cum Laude Award, on the basis of incentive.

• Nominee Award -> To everybody those that will request one of your awards you should grant the Nominee Award, this signifies that the site applied to your award and is awaiting the result. Like this that leave the result (positive or negative) the owner of the site should withdraw the Nominee Award, therefore he is not more candidate.

• SOTY (Site Of The Year) Award -> Some award programs, in the end of each year, choose between the winners of his awards the one that received bigger punctuation for be the Site of the Year.

• Poetry Award -> Some award programs, specially the ones that belong to poetry sites, like to confer a Poetry Award, these awards do not analyze the design or the navigation, but only the poetic content of the site.

• Friendship Award -> It is good have a Friendship Award for grant to the friends and to those that will send us his Friendship Awards.

Evaluator Badge -> This it is not an award, is a badge that we grant to those who we invite for be evaluator of our award program (see down).

You are able to, still, offer others awards as the Graphic Award, exclusive for sites that offer graphics, or the Photo Award, exclusive for sites of photograph, but I not recommend a number over six awards for an award program that is beginning, because increasing the number of awards increased also the work and the responsibility, is going to begin with few prizes for that the awardmaster, or award program owner, don't give up because of work or responsability excess.

Although it can be considered ideal that begin an award program already with the number and kinds of awards that is going to be offered, I believe that the best one would be begin with a basic program, offering awards in the categories gold, silver and bronze, and afterwards go increasing those that consider necessary or important for become the most complete program.

It is always good remember that the award programs rating associations like to observe certain standards in award programs and an award program that offer, by example, fifteen awards hardly would be considered grave or adequate enough for deserve a high level of classification, although in my opinion this finishes being an unnecessary interference that these entities finish doing in our award programs. It is too complicated, or not?

3. Another Information

Exist some additional information about awards that are of biggest importance for be guaranteed the success of an award program:

• URL or Address of the Site -> Although look a logical thing we will want to put the address of the site in the offered awards, this generally is not tolerated by the award program rating services, that arrive to the point of ask us for withdraw the address of the site from the awards. Therefore nothing of put URL in the award.

• Sample Awards -> For any award that you are going to offer should be created an identical copy with the inscription "Sample" or "Model" (see the down the model) for be put in the award program, this will avoid that a bad intended person copies your original award and modify it for insert the name of his site, this also happens...

• Good Taste -> Another important aspect in an award is the good taste, the awards, as in the models presented in this tutorial, must have a clean design, without exaggerations like huge 3d borders and gigantic letter, everything should be harmonious so that the result impresses for the beauty and lightness, see down an example than should NOT be deed in an award:

I hope to have supplied a broad base of information, from the which you will be able to create your awards with excellence and security.

Lupércio Mundim
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