Web Awards Judging
Anyone can be a judge with the Web Awards, whether you are a web designer, regular web user or complete beginner all you need is a set of instructions and a couple of hours of your time to review a load of web sites.
The minimum requirement is that you must judge all the nominated sites in at least one category. You will have to carry out your deliberations during August to create a shortlist to be voted on during September.
As with previous years we're using a points system to produce marks out of 100. It may not work that scientifically but it gives some consistent pointers rather than being purely subjective. We also ask judges to add any helpful comments [we also ask that they try and be nice if they can!] so that we can feed back these comments to the people who've entered. Please get in touch with adam@scip.org.uk if you want any more information about becoming a judge.
How do you know what a good site looks like?
Below is the list of criteria to use when scoring:
- First impressions and speed that it appeared marks out of ten
- Overall design - colours, graphics, text, pictures, etc marks out of ten
- How up to date is it? Not at all (0) sort of (5) Bang up to date (10) marks out of ten
- Ease of use: ie navigation, text size, pictures, clarity of writing, other aids
Suggested scale: No (0) sort of (5) Yes (10) marks out of ten - How accessible is the site for people with disabilities - eg text only version, use of image maps, etc
Suggested scale: No attempt made (0) Not bad, but not on purpose (3) Aware of issues but not fully sorted (6) Spot on/champion - maximum access supplied (10)
This provides a score out of 50, which is then doubled to give an overall percentage score.
The scores from all the judges are sent to Adam Clamp, the chief judge, who adds them all up and creates a shortlist of the top five sites in each category, in the case of a tie or any dispute Adam's decision is final.
