HOW THE VOTING WORKS

There are two stages to the voting process

	Shortlisting of all nominated sites by a panel of judges
	Members of the public will vote for their favourite sites from the shortlist

 

STAGE ONE: Shortlisting

When nominations close at the end of May a shortlist of sites will be drawn up by a panel of judges. We expect this to mean between three and five sites for each category, but it depends on the nature of the entries (this is the first year so we're giving ourselves a bit of grace!)

The panel of judges currently includes:

Helen Grant, thisisbrightonandhove

Nic Pollinger, Lycos

Prof Alan Cawson, Sussex University

Ann Light, Web design author

Kevin Carey, HumanITy

Mark Walker, SCIP
* the detailed list is subject to confirmation. In fact, it's not too late to suggest someone, or volunteer yourself

STAGE TWO: Public voting

The judges will help sift out the best in each category but we think it's important to see what the local surfing public thinks. During June voting will take place at this website to choose the best site from the shortlists in each category (plus any others we've come up with by then).

Final winners will be selected based on voting by the public, but the judges retain the final decision to avoid problems with possible 'cheating' - this is the only way we can think of to avoid people rigging the vote by voting for themselves ten million times.

The winners will then be announced at an Awards Ceremony in July, Sussex Arts Club and featured in the local press, on the Lycos UK site and other sponsors' web sites

• You can nominate sites here
• Draft criteria for judging here
• Rules of the competition here
• We welcome your feedback and ideas (especially how to stop people cheating!)

 

Keep up with news about the awards by joining our mailing list

You can also join the email mailing list we've set up by giving us your email address here and clicking the go button. We'll send you news about the Virtual Festival and the web awards.

All feedback or questions to Mark Walker at SCIP, Community Base Queens Road, Brighton

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