Submission Process
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Check
Find out and determine your category (Personal, Commercial or E-Commerce). If you are still unsure of the category that you should join, please refer HERE.
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Submit
You can now submit your website on the “SUBMIT SITE” panel. Please ensure you abide to the Terms and Conditions stated on the website, as it is mandatory for verification purposes.
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VERIFY
Submissions will be verified by SWA rating system. An email notification on submission/website approval will be sent to you (approved or disapproved).
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AWARD
Now you just need to share your website to your friends and get as many “votes” as possible. Leave the rest to the Judges to evaluate your website.
Judging System
Web Excellence Award Awards
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STEP 1
Once your website/submission has been approved/disapproved, an email notification will be sent to you regarding the verification results.
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STEP 2
Web Excellence Award Nominees will be rated by SWA Rating System, with these judging criteria: Design, SEO, Accessibility, Performance & Content.
The Top 10 Rated nominees will be the winners of Web Excellence Award, who will then be in the running to win the “Site of the Year” Awards.
The Web Excellence Award winners will be announced in January 2024.
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Site of The Year Awards
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The Web Excellence Award Winners will be evaluated by SWA Expert Judges, based on similar criteria — Design, SEO, Accessibility, Performance & Content.
The 3 Grand Winners (Site of the Year for different categories) will be announced at the SWA Awards Presentation Ceremony.
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Judging Criteria
Design
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More than just coming up with a pretty or trendy-looking website that catches attention, the ideal website design should be able to deliver quality visuals that are both appropriate and relevant to the web content and the intended visitors.
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The website should have a clean, professional logo for branding that matches with the theme, concept, colours and the creative elements found within the website. Other deciding factors include layout, typography, images and audio.
SEO
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SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, determines the ranking of a website in the search engine results. A website with a high SEO value is guaranteed online visibility and better traffic.
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The content of the website, such as the page title, meta tags and the presence of indexation, must show an effective use of various SEO techniques that maximizes search engine visibility.
Accessibility
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A website is meant to be accessed; good accessibility makes a website more user-friendly, functional and allows visitors to procure the right information they need with the least amount of time and complication, whenever and wherever they are.
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The website must be compatible and could be accessed with ease on all mobile platforms. Throughout use of relevant accessibility-enhancing features and technologies such as URL rewriting should also be demonstrated to make user interaction with the website convenient, responsive, optimally interactive and memorable.
Performance
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Users tend to get frustrated when websites take too long to load. The website must not only be filled with impressive content and creative layout; the performance of the website, especially in regard to its loading speed, is a crucial element when it comes to what makes or breaks a good website.
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The website must have an optimum download speed, reflecting a skillful utilization of page caching, website compression and other forms of loading optimization without compromising on the quality of both its content and layout.
CONTENT
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Being the heartbeat of a website, it is therefore a must for the website content to be relevantly coherent with the website’s topic and genre. Content includes, but are never restricted to, music, sound, video, animation and any other relevant methods of presentation found within the website.
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All content in the website should be presented in an excellent and tidy layout, with readable font, contrasting colour schemes, and is free from broken links.
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The characteristics of good content – informative, engaging, memorable, and always leaving the visitors wanting for more.
Determine Your Category
Here is the guideline to determine your website category.
Personal
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This category is for individual websites. For eg, blogs or any websites that are built for own usage & sharing
Commercial
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This category is for company or business websites. For eg, any business that showcases their profile on website for customers to refer.
E-commerce
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This category is for business websites with add-to-cart system and payment gateway.
T&C
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Submission date is from 8 January to 31 December 2024. Submissions made NOT within the allocated period will be neglected.
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SWA 2024 is open to anyone who had previously developed / designed a website that serves the Singapore market. Only the aforementioned websites will be accepted as nominees.
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Submission closing date will be on the 31 December 2024. Any submission received after will not be enrolled into SWA 2024.
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Your submission will not be published as soon as it is submitted. Submission will only be published on the website upon completion of evaluation.
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Submitted websites must be written in English, Malay language or Chinese language. Websites written in other languages are not eligible to join SWA 2024.
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Submissions will only be approved based on the appropriate criteria of the website.
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Each agency is limited to submitting a maximum of 5 websites per H1 and H2.
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Websites that are nominated must obtained minimum 50 marks and above. If the score is below that, it will be eliminated automatically.
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The number of Top Website Excellence Awards for each category is subject to management discretion.
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The Site of the Year Award is applicable only to categories with a minimum of the Top 5 Website Excellence Awards winners and above.
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Participants are granting Exabytes a worldwide and universal license to promote, publish, use, host, store, and to be shared by any accomplices of Singapore Website Awards 2024 when they submit their websites. Participants are responsible for having the permission to license any content submitted Singapore Website Awards 2024.
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For all SWA nominees & winners, please hot link your entitled awards ribbon or awards logo on your website. ** Unsuccessful nominations should NOT hot link the awards ribbon on their websites.
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Participants must ensure all information provided is legitimate. Exabytes has the rights to collect the stated information and content for assessing, awarding and promotion.
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The organiser of Singapore Website Awards 2024 reserves the rights to amend or update the marks given to all participating websites before official announcement is made. Once results are officially announced, everything is deemed finalized.
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The organiser of Singapore Website Awards 2024 reserves the right to terminate any submitted entries if it is in violation of the terms and conditions.