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"Hello, We went through your pages very carefully and liked what we saw. Your web site displayed great creativity and very fine use of graphics on your pages. Also, we found your site easy to navigate. For the abovementioned reasons you will receive the ArmonWeb Originality Award." -- Gilad Armon, webmaster, ArmonWeb, Haifa, Israel

"I just got back from evaluating your site. It wasn't hard to do as I was already familiar with your site from your own awards program. I am happy to bestow upon you the 'Ban the Blue' Award. Once again, congratulations." -- Craig B., webmaster, Ban the Blue Awards, Ban Blue M&Ms

"Congratulations!! You are the winner of our Golden Award for March [2000]. You have very good and, most of all, very original site. Presentation of your site is excellent. This award program was established to give credit to those who challenge the existing design rules, raise the standard of sites presentation on the Web, and lead us to the new millennium. To win this award, your site has to be of outstanding quality and belong to the elite on the Web. Good luck in the future. We are proud to have you with our winners." -- Dean Bertoncelj on bee-half of the judging panel, New Millennium Art & Design Group, Zagreb, Croatia

"Congratulations... The Comedy Zone is pleased to award you the Cool Site Gold award for your website. The Cool Site award is given to websites whose intentions are to provide the visitor with useful and informative content, with extra credit given to good design, decent graphics, ease of navigation and fast loading times. As your site scored over 90% against the overall judging criteria, I am pleased to present you with the Gold award. Thank you for allowing us the pleasure of visiting your website and good luck in the future. Cheers," -- Ray Chapman, webmaster, The Comedy Zone, Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, England, UK

"Congratulations Míc, I am pleased to present to you The Ricepot's Silver Award. I have been most impressed by The Beeline's excellent services and resources. I found your site a pleasure to navigate through. WELL DONE! regards, 8-)" -- Cyn Chew, webmistress, The Home of the Ricepot, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

"Congratulations! Our site reviewers have judged your site worthy of the Working the Web! Award. We pride ourselves on being one of the most selective award sites on the Web and choose only the very best of the hundreds of sites submitted weekly. We review deserving sites on the basis of design, style and content, and your site received a high rating from our reviewers in all 3 areas. Congratulations on an outstanding site and a useful Web resource." -- David E. Culpepper on bee-half of the Working the Web! support staff, C&C Marketing Services, Collins, Mississippi, USA

"Dear Webmaster, re: http://bton.com Someone has been nice enough to nominate your site as a DailyHOTsite Best of the Internet Pick-of-the-Day. DailyHOTsite looks at several areas when picking our DailyHOTsite selection; 1) content and 2) layout. After reviewing your site we have unanimously decided to give you the DailyHOTsite Pick-of-the-Day award. Again, congratulations," -- DailyHOTsite, Highland, Utah, USA

"Congratulations! Your website is truly worthy of our prestigious Excellence Award! Our Excellence Award has been rated at 3.5 by Focus Associates so you should be very proud!" -- Michael DiLeo, webmaster, NeedToShop.com, Aurora, Colorado, USA

"Congratulations Míc! Your site, The Beeline, has won the Mix Silver Award for Web Excellence! During my visit I found your site to be rich in interesting and entertaining content. The design and layout are well thought out, and the graphics well crafted and quite beautiful. All in all, a high quality site and a great resource! Your site is now listed among the Silver winners on my site. Again, congratulations on a job well done!" -- Mikael "mix" Eriksson, webmaster, the mix site, Västervik, Sweden

"Hi Míc, Thank you for the listing at your fine site. It's a pleasure to be even slightly associated with an organization such as yours. I am happy to be a small part of your community. Wishing you and yours the best," -- Basil Filippone, Basil's Art, Montville, New Jersey, USA

"Congrats!!! You have an outstanding site! You've won the GOLD!" -- John "Writebrained" Garner, webmaster, Son of Thunder Ink, Central Illinois, USA

"We toured your web site and feel that your site exceeds the criteria of our LBG Web Award...Congratulations! Your site is very well thought out, informative, very navigable, and entertaining. It is truly a fantastic site, with far more content than expected, and truly is one of the top sites that we have seen in a while, table, frame, button and text choices, what a great deal of work, you should be very proud of your site." -- Larry Gauthier, webmaster, LBG Awards

"Congratulations, you won the Top Site Award. This award is given to outstanding Web pages and recognizes the hard work that was put into the development of your Web site. A panel of two decided the final results. Thanks for helping to make the Web a more interesting, fun and attractive place to visit. My compliments on a job well done!" -- Kristi Grefk, webmistress, Grefk's, Cape Coral, Florida, USA

"Hello! Your site is reviewed today and was awarded with 'Award of Excellence in Web-Design' by having 92 points. Everything in the site is perfect. Graphics and design are wonderful. Loading time is excellence. All the best," -- Hayrettin Gürkök, webmistress, Gürkök Awards, Eskisehir, Turkey

"Greetings and Congratulations, You won our Feb.2000 award. This month was strange, there were EXACTLY 1602 competitors. Congrats again and keep up the good work. Best regards," -- Mohammed Hafez on bee-half of the AwardWorld Jury, AwardWorld, Cairo, Egypt

"Dear Míc Miller, We are pleased to tell you that The Beeline has been selected as one of the recipients of the Information Revolution Award! We found your site contained vast quantities of material about a wide variety of topics - too many to list here. There was a lot to read both for pleasure and for enjoyment and it was all well-organized and easy to navigate. Your site was intellectually satisfying and it was hard to leave. The Beeline website is a site we would be happy to tell our friends about! Keep up the great work," -- Shawn Haley, publisher, Eagle Creek Publishers, Bowden, Alberta, Canada

"Hello Míc: I am very pleased to present the SPSH Gold Award for your extremely interesting website. Good luck in the future and keep up the excellent work and dedication. Sincerely," -- Maureen Hall, webmistress, Stop the Pain / Start the Humanity, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada

"We are pleased to inform you that your site http://bton.com has been reviewed by Millennium Marketing 2000 and has been approved for the Marketing Excellence 2000 Award! Congratulations and please continue providing excellence on the Internet! Sincerely," -- Sara Hardy & Debbie Solomon, co-owners, Millennium Marketing 2000, Crescent City, Florida, USA

"Hi Míc, I actually have visited your site before where I applied for one of your lovely awards. I haven't heard from you but I loved your site then and now. Excellent work. I am sending Harbeson and Associates' Gold Medal to do my little part in honoring your efforts." -- Will Harbeson, owner, Harbeson and Associates, Miami, Florida, USA

"Dear Míc, Our staff performed a thorough review of your site. This decision is never an easy one, and although many sites apply, only a select few will win. After careful consideration, it is the panel's decision that your site is worthy of Manic Automatic's Sapphire Award for Accomplished Web Presence. Congratulations! Wear your badge with pride, as this is not an easy award to win. Your site will appear in our list of Previous Winners within the next few days. Thanks again for participating in our awards program, and good luck in the future!" -- Erik Harlow on bee-half of the Manic Automatic Staff, Manic Automatic, Los Angeles, California, USA

"Hello, I don't know what to say. I visited The Beeline and Wow. I can't help but feel there must have been an error in my form processor. That is a truly professional web-presence that far outmatches my own contribution. The purpose of Brainstorm is to reward those who spend so much time working on their sites. The idea came to me because there are so many people out there just trying to make a decent location on the Web that never get recognized for it and I know exactly how they feel. I spent about 45 minutes at your website and I must say that it is a unique, sincere, impressive accomplishment that adds a singular flavor to the Web...believe me, you have a new regular visitor to your site!" -- Caleb Howe, webmaster, Wired Internet Cafe, Jacksonville, North Carolina, USA

"Congratulations! Your web-site has been reviewed and chosen to bear the 1999-2000 Golden Web Award." -- International Association of Web Masters and Designers, Wellington, Florida, USA

"Hello Míc, I am pleased to write that The Beeline has earned the Visions of Adonai Masters Award. Your site scored 10 out of 10 in meeting the selection criteria. Your site has a wonderful layout: I love the metaphorical theme! The colors, design, layout, graphics and use of space are superb. Very ingenious setup. Your content is both ample and interesting...I got lost a few times in more than one section...not because of navigation, but the interesting info and links! Your HTML code was flawless,...a very enjoyable visit. All the Best to You," -- June Kaminski, webmistress, Visions of Adonai Fine Art & Web Design, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

"Congratulations, you have won my Gold Award. This site has revamped its award criteria and this award is very rarely given out. It is extremely hard to acquire and your site has shown exceptional quality, which is why we are inclined to present you with this award. Congratulations, once again." -- Amy King, webmistress, Caicos' Virtual Scrapebook, Waterford, Connecticut, USA

"Congratulations! Your site, The Beeline, has been awarded WarmEmbers' Flaming Design Award for your outstanding achievement in Web design. Your pages displayed creative design, ease of navigation and your visitors are offered many wonderful services. Thank you for inviting me to your beautiful site. Warm Regards," -- Casharion A. Kirk, webmaster, WarmEmbers' Words in Symphony, Columbus, Ohio, USA

"Congratulations! After careful review, we have chosen your site (The Beeline - http://bton.com) as a winner of My ParenTime's Informed Site Award! We offer this award strictly to those sites that provide information that will help the public in some way. My ParenTime stresses this importance and believes it makes a better online community. Thank you for having an informed site! Best always," -- Joi M. Lasnick, administrator, My ParenTime, Jupiter, Florida, USA

"You've been SPOTD! Your site is today's Surfin' Pick of the Day! It is being featured all day today..." -- Phillip E. Leonard, webmaster, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

"Hi, I like your site very much - I have awarded it the Ndoro 3 Star Award of Excellence. Please keep in touch - I lived in Indiana - Fort Wayne when I was a child - a long time ago before I ever thought of living in Africa! Kind regards," -- Odette Lind, webmistress, The Lind Pages, Harare, Zimbabwe

"Hi Míc, Congratulations! I am pleased to advise you that you have won the Best of the Web for MacOS Gold Award for web site excellence. Congratulations on a job well done! It is clear that you have spent an extraordinary amount of time developing and refining both your web site and the information and material you provide to visitors. And it came as a great surprise and delight to me that your site, so highly regarded for its design and Web award program, was produced entirely on a Mac - and a IIfx at that! It is only with the assistance of others in the 'Mac' community that we are able to bring unique and valuable resources (such as yours) to the attention of others. Kind regards, congratulations, and all the very best," -- Ian McPherson, webmaster, Ian's Power Backgrounds, Crows Nest, New South Wales, Australia

"Hi Míc Miller, Congratulations, you won this week's Awesome Award. The Awesome Award is given to the 3 most AWESOME web sites of the week. You have a really informative and cool site, I like it very much. Keep up the wonderful work :O) Best wishes," -- Medusa, webmistress, Mac'N'Stuff, Rodovre, Denmark

"Hello Míc, We applaud your site's ease of navigation, unique graphic displays and invaluable content. It is with pleasure that we give you the Superior Resource Site Community Award. Regards," -- Ted Miller, awards coordinator, Nu-Horizons Design Studio, Aldergrove, British Colombia, Canada

"Dear Míc, I am delighted to inform you that your website has been designated a winner of the Website Analyst Award. As you may already know, many of the 'Awards' seen throughout the WWW are truly meaningless, stolen, frivolous or totally rediculous. This is NOT the case with the Website Analyst Award. We are very seriously committed to the reward of excellence and valuable service provided to the Internet community, where we encounter it throughout the WWW. Sincerely," -- Lucian Millis, webmaster, Website Analyst, Netanya, Israel

"Congratulations! The content, mechanics, and design of your pages are outstanding. We are pleased to acknowledge your efforts with two awards. Thank you so much for making the Web a better place!" -- Carol & Norm Morris, America's Beginnings: The Real Story

"Míc, I wanted to award your fine site. I made this myself and I hope you accept in the spirit intended. Excellence for a great site!" -- J.J. Oakley, webmaster, Oakley's World, Millbrook, Alabama, USA

"The Beeline - Tips and Tricks: Submitting for Web Awards is a Web site that lists almost everything you'll need to know about seeking Web awards. It lists available awards, defines the types of awards available and which ones are really worthwhile, and tells you what pitfalls and scams to avoid when submitting for awards." -- excerpt from "Web awards: You may already be a winner" article by Kevin Rayburn, columnist, TechRepublic, Louisville, Kentucky, USA

"Hello Míc, I have completed my review of your wonderful site and it gives me great pleasure to tell you that The Beeline had no problem meeting my criteria for receiving my Award of Excellence! This truly is a great site. Well thought out and easy to navigate about in. Please keep up the great work at The Beeline and I will be checking back with you often to see what is new." -- Joann Romans, webmistress, WebKorner, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA

"Míc, I'm pleased to announce you have won Senior Sojourner's Award for Design Excellence. You have done a beautiful job and certainly deserve all the recognition you can get. A good layout, and excellent content, make your site one which will surely get return visits. Again, congratulations!!" -- Sadie,webmistress, Senior Sojourner, San Antonio, Texas, USA

"Hello, As first I might excuse for my bad English myself, but I work with a translator. In the name I lend 'the Golden Lions' You the AWARD in GOLD. I You hope receives still very many AWARDS. Mit freundlichen Grüssen" -- Isolde Schmidt, webmistress, Golden Lions Drum and Bugle Corps, Mannheim-Sandhofen, Germany

"Your website is beautifully done and extremely informative. Your graphics are clean. You can be proud of a great site." -- Jeannie Schuett, webmistress, CoffeeShop Designs, Fremont, California, USA

"Greetings to The Beeline: Congratulations, your website, The Beeline, has been awarded the Otakou Creative Design Platinum Award with a score rating of 98.75 / 100 thus The Beeline is a Site of the Month Qualifier. Your website has given much pleasure to our four Award Evaluators during the evaluation process and we were impressed with the standard of quality you provided for viewing. We are all fully aware that much time and effort goes into the creation and maintenance of websites and we hope that you will view this Award as a reflection of your achievement. We thank you for inviting us to visit with you and for your assisting through your website to make the World Wide Web a more pleasant, informative and resourceful area. On a personal level, I wish you the very best for the Site of the Month contest. Your website and general comments on same are listed at Otakou during the month of March 2000. Again, CONGRATULATIONS and thank you for the pleasure your website has given to my Evaluators whilst visiting your particular area. Regards," -- Rhonda Serong, webmistress, Otakou New Zealand Online, Otakou Peninsula, New Zealand [Qualifying Websites of the Month Comments: "Fascinating, well designed resource and information web site; extremely user friendly. Excellent use of well designed images which assist greatly in making the web site quite an adventure. We recommend this web site to all persons starting out on the web looking for guidelines in building their own web sites."]

"What a pleasant place to spend time. I am happy to tell you that you have won my award. My awards are personalized for the sites that win, so it may be a day or two to actually get it done and shipped out to you. Oh, and your final score was 94, very well done. Bee well...sites like yours do make the Internet a better place." -- Mark Spicer, webmaster, George's Place, London, Ontario, Canada

"Congratulations! You are one of my newest recipients of the Hummingbird Award of Excellence and Appeal awards. Your site is very much deserving of the award and I am certain it is deserving of many awards yet to come. Once again, congratulations and it was an honor visiting your site!" -- Stacy, webmistress, Whispering Wings, Spring Lake, Michigan, USA

"Hello Míc, You site has won an award! The Beeline has won the Craftworker Gold Award. Your site is very well done, a whole lot of fun and information. Once again, Congrats!" -- James Thompson, webmaster, Orlando, Florida, USA

"Your site has been selected to be part of the Enchanting Sites webring. This is because, your website was thought to be not only exceedingly excellent, but it is one of the finest websites there is on the Internet." -- Jesse Wei, ringmistress, Enchanting Sites: Finest of the Finest Websites, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

"Your site has been carefully selected to be included in The 1000 Directory of Select Submission Sites on the JimWorld family of web resources which includes VirtualPromote, JimTools, Search Engine Forums, Get High (Traffic) Forums and many others. It is our opinion that your site is valuable to webmasters attempting to grow the traffic coming to their Web sites. Thank you for all the effort you have invested to create such a valuable resource for others on the Internet." -- Jim Wilson on bee-half of The 1000 at JimWorld Directory Team, Laguna Niguel, California, USA

"Míc, I have just finished reviewing your site for our Gigafree Gold Award and I am pleased to tell you that your site MORE than qualified for our award! Your site was very well organized, informative, interesting, very fast loading, and easy to navigate. Again Congratulations! You have a fantastic site! Sincerely," -- Candace Woodyard, webmistress, The Gigafree Domain, Sjotorp, Sweden