• Lorelei Award Program Self Test •

S e l f T e s t

Even if you have read and understood the criteria, we will deeply appreciate it if you would dedicate a few minutes to take our online self test. This does not guarantee you will win an award, but can help you to estimate your own chances and ensure you meet the basic requirements. The results are not not logged anywhere, and the test is strictly anonymous, feel free to take the test as many times as you wish... Good luck!

Check the box near every question, if the answer is "yes" .

Code Accuracy
1. Have you tested your website with W3C or WDG ?
2. Is you website free from coding errors whatsoever?
3. Have you tested all your scripts (java, alphabets) and they all work
  (without freezing the browser)?
4. Do you have meta tags on all pages?
5. Does every page have its relevant title?
6. Is your website labelled with ICRA?
7. Is your site properly viewed in all the major browses?
8. Have you not disabled the mouse right click?
Links and access of pages
1. Do all your internal links open in the same browser's window?
2. Do all the external links open in a new browser's window?
3. Do absolutely all your internal links work?
4. Do 95% of external links work?
5. Is the entire website accessible and has no password protected / members only areas?
Content and Legal issues • Top •
1. If you live in the USA, do you comply with COPPA (kids privacy online)? *
2. Do you have a detailed and easy to understand Copyright statement?
3. If you availed of other's material, have you given credits? *
4. Do you have a Privacy Policy?
5. Are all the illustration relevant to the theme?
6. Does your website offer interesting content that can teach the visitor something new?
7. Do you have at least 7 pages or original material?
8. Is your site family safe, and does not offer any adult, offensive, vulgar or discriminative material?
9. Do you store all your images / media files on your server, and do not link to other's images directly?
10. Is the main purpose of your website easy to understand?
Design
1. Do you not have a horizontal scroll bar at 800*600 resolution? (Check the box if you have no scroll bar).
2. Are all your graphics of a good quality and optimized for fast loading?
3. Does your background have good contrast with text?
4. Do all your images display?
5. Is your layout consistent throughout the site?
6. Is your design original and was not made using a ready-to-use template?
7. Have you tested your website in all the major browsers?
8. Is your website properly viewed in IE, Firefox, Netscape and Opera?
9. Is the font, which you have chosen, easy to read? (not too small, nor huge).
10. Is your website not based on a blog, MSN page, forum, or any other "shared" web space?
11. If you use music, is there an option to turn it off on each page?*
Language
1. Do you have less than 5 spelling errors, if any?
2. Is your website written in English, Russian, Italian or German? Or has a full version in one of these languages?
3. Have you run a spell check before uploading your website to the web?
4. Have you not missed any slang words, or shortcuts such as "u" instead of "you", "r" instead of "are", etc?
5. Is the overall written content easy to understand?
Navigation
1. Do you offer consistent navigation throughout the website, on all pages?
2. Is there a link to your home page from any page?
3. Is there an option of contacting the webmaster on every page?
4. Do you have a Site Map?
5. If you use a Flash menu, do you offer an alternative, bare-bone HTML version? *
Maintenance
1. Have you updated your website in the past month?
2. Do you state when was the site last updated?
3. Are your website's advertisments, if any, do not overrule the design?
4. Is your site not monetized by ads which you place? (Ads placed by a free server don't count)
5. Are you the webmaster of the site you are submitting?
6. Are you the designer of the site you are submitting?

( * ) Check the box if irrelevant.

If you have checked ALL the 50 the boxes, then you are ready to apply...

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