ou've heard of the Oscars and the Grammy's awards and last year you stayed up all night to watch the Emmy's to see your favorite star walk down the red carpet with her Harry Winston diamonds, Ralph Lauren gown and unbelievably high Jimmy Choos.

Let's welcome you to another kind of awards. These awards may not be as glamorous and may not drive the media into a feeding frenzy, but it sure awards the right set of grey cells. No, I am not referring to the Nobel Prize, but web awards which are given to some of the most creative web sites ever created.

This article is dedicated to those awards which make the web what it is today. Not only do these awards add a bit of style to the web site design they also help provide a large modicum of respect for web designers both within the community and with their clients.

The Webby Awards: The Webby Awards have been around for ten years and can be considered as one of the oldest, well established awards on the internet. They are governed by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. There are close to sixty five categories of awards and each award has five nominations. You know that the Webby Awards mean serious business as the judging process is monitored by PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Nominations to the Webby Awards can be done online and receiving a Webby Award can pave a designer's road to success. Even Webby Nominees are very highly respected within the creative design industry. For more information feel free to have a look around www.webbyawards.com

The Golden Web Awards: The International Association of Web Masters and Designers ( IAWMD) promote the Golden Web Awards which practices the democratic principle of 'by the people, for the people'.

The awards are given based on a range of parameters which are defined by the members of the association. Since this is by a professional body, there is a lot of emphasis on technical accuracy and conformance to the best development standards. If you are impressed by numbers then you might like to know that there are 400,000 IAWMD members in close to 150 countries!

Though some of the web site design awards are offered by professional organizations, there are some awards which may also be considered haute couture awards for creative web site designing.

One such award is the Fcuk Star Awards. There are some excellent web sites which are available for review on this site and you can submit your own web site online as well. One of the key factors which define the nominees of this award is that the web sites which are nominated are web sites of well established brands. You can see the nominees at www.fcukstar.com . the web site is a bit more interactive than the other award web sites mentioned earlier.

The internet is a place which is full of creative ideas. Thus awards sites are not far from these creative points. The Internet Tiny Awards is one such award which thrives on creativity and has a new featured site every week. Apart from distributing awards, the Internet Tiny Awards web site provides some excellent content and community tools for the web site design fraternity.

This award has been around only for three years and has managed to create a niche for itself. More information about the awards is available at www.internettinyawards.com
If you are a web designer, then it is definitely worthwhile to check out these web site design awards which can give you information on the latest design as well as give you an opportunity to compete. If you are looking for a good web designer for your web site, looking up these web site design awards can get you connected to some of the best web site designers.

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