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The Beeline is a Learning Fountain

The Beeline earned a World's Top Award when Paul Siegel, publisher of Learning Fountain Magazine, notified Míc Miller with the news.

"Congratulations! Your site is now a 'Learning Fountain.' The Learning Fountain is not so much an award as it is a statement of the way you do business." According to their explanation for this elite award, "Websites are reviewed and rated for excellence in design and marketing. Those commercial sites meeting the strict requirements are designated to be Learning Fountains. The emblem therefore signifies, not so much an award, as an elite-community membership."

We Bees thank Mr. Siegel and Learning Fountain Magazine for this high honor. We are, of course, delighted to know that The Beeline has been designated a Learning Fountain.

More SOTY awards

"Greetings Webmaster! Over the last two and a half months, I have been sifting through over 1000 site submissions and our past award winners and we have finally chosen our year 2000 Site of the Year! Your site, The Beeline, has shown to be excelled in all the areas we were looking for -- especially quality, content, and original design! At this time, we are proud to announce your site has won the U.S.S. Amazon Award for Design Excellence for the Year 2000! We hope you will display the graphic proudly, knowing your site was picked out of exactly 1974 sites." -- "Admiral" Josh Fink, webmaster, U.S.S. Amazon, Worchester, New York, USA

"Dear Sirs, You are the first and only winner of our Platinum Site Award for year 2000. We are honoured to award you with this award because your site is very inspirational and really excellent. Best wishes in the new millenium," -- Dragan Milinkovic & Nikolai Kitanovic, owners, Musicans.com, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia [Beekeeper's note: The Beeline had to earn their Golden Lyre Site of the Year for General Sites to qualify for this program's top annual award.]

Reward yourself

If you've created a Web site, you are well aware of the time, attention and, at times, frustration that is involved. Why not reward yourself by submitting your site for Web awards? There are hundreds of award programs ranging from fellowship awards to those tough-as-nails-to-get elite awards.

To help you get going, see Submitting for Web Awards in the Tips & Tricks area for a primer on the types of Web awards, a comprehensive directory of award programs, and resources that will help you bee rewarded for all that hard work.

If you already have an award-winning site, visit our Beehive Awards Program to see if it can qualify for one of the top Web awards on the Internet. Just going through this program will help you understand what "Web excellence" is and how close your Web site comes to it.

Tips & Tricks

We've lost count of how many Web awards The Beeline has received just for its Tips & Tricks area. Míc Miller created it to help "new bees" and "wanna-bees" bee-come sophisticated Netizens.

Whether it's enhancing your browsing experience, Web-page design, the Internet in general, Web-site planning, technical resources, or just figuring out what it takes to make money with e-commerce; Tips & Tricks has what you need -- or gets you to where you need to bee for it!