1. Arts, Culture, Entertainment, Humor, & Sports
Web sites that display art, or is about the arts or cultural heritage. All forms of entertainment and leisure activities sites including TV, music, radio, film and comedy. Sports sites include those covering events, containing data/statistics, sports culture and history. This category does not include sites that focus on marketing a design group or artist. (i.e. a design shop's corporate site.) No fan sites.
2. Banner Ads
Banners that focus on marketing campaigns that support a Web site. Banner ads include industry-standard advertising banners (468x60), tile ads (125x125), and skyscraper ads (125x600).
3. Children
Sites that provide services, entertain or educate children younger than 17 years of age.
4. Commerce
Sites that enable transactions for goods and services online.
This categry includes both:
• B2B - Customers must be other businesses
• B2C - Customers must be a consumer
5. Education
Sites that promote education, enable learning, provide an online curriculum for adults or children. Also includes sites the help enable educational research or provide resources for educators.
6. Games
Sites that offer individual or multi-player games developed for and playable online & accessible from a URL. The actual game will be judged, not the site containing it. For example, if you developed a game that is featured on a Web site, i.e. Shockwave.com, it is your game that will be judged, not the site it is featured on. Sites such as Shockwave.com should be entered in the entertainment category.
7. Health & Science
Sites that provide health related information, resources, products and/or services that improve personal health. This category includes health news, health information, online diagnosis, allopathic and complementary medicine, mental health, and physical or emotional well-being. Science sites include
those that distribute information, science exploration, exhibits, museums, organizations, laboratories, and academic institutions.
8. Intranets & Extranets
Any company site that is accessible to internal company employees or one that allows external access to their intranet via password access to others (vendors, suppliers etc) to increase performance and value to their business.
9. Living & Travel
Sites that provide content about daily living. Sites may include gardening, home improvement, food, parenting and similar subjects. This category also includes sites that provide travel services, online travel guides, tools for purchasing of tickets, finding of hotels, places of interest and travel writing.
10. Multimedia
Sites that are designed or developed for intensive interactive content. Sites may include video, audio, animation, and similar technologies. May be a complete site developed in a new technology or a component of a site that uses new technology (i.e. Flash splash page for a site).
11. News, Media & Publications
Sites that provide news and media such as general news, online news, streaming content, sites developed for recent events and Web e-zines.
12. Non-Profits & Public Services
Sites that support government and non-profit effectiveness by providing information and services to the general population.
13. Personal Web Site
These are personal sites created by an individual for non-commercial purposes. These include hobbies and family sites. This category does not include sites that are constructed to market your portfolio or your personal business. Includes fan sites.
14. Professional Services
These include sites that provide information and professional services and that promote a service. These include but are not limited to sites for ad agencies, Web site developers, recruiters, real estate agencies, doctors, dentists, legal firms, personal portfolios, etc.
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