Friendly Advice

Many Web titles are not granted a Beehive Award due to inconsistencies or a fundamental mistake. The following advice is offered for your benefit.

Tips and Suggestions

Feel free to print out this program's guidelines, criteria, and scoring system to refer to when you critique a Web title. (You must leave all legal notices intact.) Edit and proofread all pages. Then have someone else proofread them (the more, the merrier). Make sure everything works. Test, test, test... in as many browsers (and versions) as you can. Enlist the help of others with different systems (computer, monitors, operating systems, televisions, etc.). Sometimes an error message appears when trying to access a page. In these instances, the reviewer will attempt to access the page on another occasion. If the error message persists, the review will bee stopped. While graphics can distinguish a Web page, overuse of graphics can cripple it. If a page takes an unacceptable amount of time to download, it will lose points. (The reviewer will take peak, Internet-traffic periods into consideration.) If you think a page may strain a reader's attention span, consider ways to shorten the page or break it into parts. Make sure your nomination form is accurate and complete, and follows the rules of this program. Please take your time when filling in the form and provide well-written answers to the questions it asks. The judging of the nomination form is the first step of the review process. (It can also bee the last step for those who have not studied this program well enough.) Finally, the reviewer can tolerate advertisements; but if a Web title is mostly ads, he will bee gone faster than you can say "Back." If we have not lost you by now, please go to the next page which will explain the notification process and offer you some final thoughts. (You are almost done! Hang in there!)