Award Sites 2.5

Fromper Award Application

This is an award for sites that not only demonstrate creativity, but encourage it in others.

To see if you qualify for this award, I need:

    Mandatory:
    The URL of your site
    Optionally:
    Your name and email address
    The title of your site
    Your own comments about the site and your mission
    The URL's of three people who were inspired to do something themselves, by your site. For instance, I would list all the bards at StreetWrites. I claim particular credit for inspiring the StreetWrites HaiKu and LowKu.

    I list those items as optional because I should be able to get them from your site. If you don't give me an address or have an email address, guestbook or some way of getting feedback from your site, I won't be able to let you know whether you've won the award. If your mission isn't clear from your site, and you don't promote the work of others, this isn't an award you want to apply for.

Please be sure you have read the criteria before submitting your site.

Mandatory:

Site address:

Optional: (Only because I should be able to get them from your site.)

Site title:

Your name:

Your e-mail address:

If you don't give me an address or have an email address, guestbook or some way of getting feedback from your site, I won't be able to let you know whether you've won the award.

What is your site about? Do you have a mission statement?

Who has this site inspired, and how?

I would really like to see the URL's of some people who were inspired to do something themselves, by your site. For instance, I would list all the bards at StreetWrites. I claim particular credit for inspiring the StreetWrites HaiKu and LowKu.

If your mission isn't clear from your site, and you don't promote the work of others, this isn't an award you want to apply for.

Other comments:

I will be influenced if people linked from your site refer to you as inspirational or if other people who see your name in my guestbook testify that yours is a wonder-full site. Having your friends sign the guestbook is not mandatory. Having links on your site, however, is part of celebrating other people's creativity as well as your own.

I also strongly recommend you read Thalia's Tips for Accessible Web Pages, because if your pages take too long to load or are not readable by my friends with older browsers, you probably won't qualify.

The award is open to all sites -- personal, nonprofit, educational or commercial -- as long as there is content on your site that celebrates others besides yourself, and inspiration that others can get without paying for it.

No site that encourages hatred, abuse, or humiliation of any individual or group will qualify. With some exceptions, notably, lawyer jokes and anything poking fun at Mephistopheles, who gets entirely too big for his hatbrim on a regular basis.

I will let you know within 4 weeks if you have won the Fromper Award. However, I've got a lot of other mail to answer, too, so I don't send out notices if you didn't win. If you don't hear from me within a month, check over the criteria again. The two most frequent reasons I haven't given the award have been: 1) the site is about you and your interests, but does not celebrate others or contribute to their growth; 2) the site does not pass Bobby's accessibility criteria. If your site changes in the future (and changing either of those two characteristics can only bring you more traffic!) then you are welcome to re-apply.

If the Frompers agree that they like to dance on your pages, I will ask you to download  the award graphic and post it in a suitable position of honor on your page, with a link back to my site -- and to give me a graphic to post on my award page and link back to you. If you do not have a graphic logo or button, I will be happy to help you create one.

If I find your site inspirational, I may even write something about you myself.

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