Open Adit™ Best Rock & Mineral Web site Awards

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Welcome to the Open Adit™"Best Rock & Mineral Web site" award program. The purpose of this award is to recognize the hard work and dedication of those webmasters who have invested time and effort in maintaining superiority in web site design, and content pertaining to rocks, minerals, fossils & gems etc . Our awards program was certified by the QIWA - Quality Independent Website Awards in 2003 to help ensure standards and legitimacy. We are now included as members of their alumnus due to our awards program no longer being an independent program. We are currently rated as a Level 3 award in the science category with Award Sites.

Please read the criteria and disqualifications of this award program carefully. Open Adit™ will not issue the award just because an application was filed. The only way to achieve the award is to fulfil the criteria written to this award program. If your site does not receive the award, it does not mean that your site wasn't good enough. It simply means your site did not meet our criteria of this award program at this time. We use a rating system consisting of Platinum, Gold, Silver, and Bronze awards so that we may be generous with our "Best Rock & Mineral Web site" awards, to a point, and help drive traffic to your web site. However, the Platinum award represents the top of all the best web sites in the Rock and Mineral World, and receiving this award is truly an honor. Unfortunately, only a small number of our applicants will eventually walk away with the Platinum, as we only reward those who excelled in all fields of our criteria. If you win one of our "Best Rock & Mineral Web site" awards we will add your web site to our award recipients page.

The total points received will determine which award you will receive.

Platinum:	100+ Points
Gold:	90 - 100 Points
Silver:	80 - 89 Points
Bronze:	60 - 79 Points

Each site submitted will be carefully evaluated and scored using the following criteria.

Content:	up to 20 points
Creativity:	up to 10 points
Design:	up to 40 points
Navigation:	up to 20 points
Technical:	up to 10 points
Bonus Points:	up to 15 points



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