2008 Swiggy Award Winners

2007 Swiggy Award Winners

The Swiggy is an annual award given to the top three websites that exemplify design excellence in state government, K-12 schools or higher education. The purpose of the Swiggy Awards is to recognize state organizations' efforts in creating and maintaining well-designed, helpful, accessible and easy to use websites for the citizens of West Virginia. This award is given by the Statewide Internet Group (SWIG), an user group of the state Information Technology Council (ITC). Participation in SWIG is diverse, but it includes people from all over the state who are responsible for maintaining, developing or coordinating websites at state agencies, in the K-12 school system or in higher education.

Eligible Entries:

An eligible site is any that has been developed by a state agency, K-12 or higher education organization.

Who Can Nominate?

Anyone can nominate a website for a Swiggy; however, the nominator must include information about the site such as the target audience, who worked on the project, etc. Ideally, a team member, project manager or another at the same organization would be the nominating party.**

**The organization or agency that owns the site, must be informed of the website's submission to the contest and be listed as the primary contact. This award is presented to the organization owning the website, the state employees who developed, coordinated, or managed the project, and others who may have been involved.

Judging:

Members on the judging committee will consist of experienced webmasters who may be affiliated with the state in some capacity. They will abstain from judging any sites in which they have participated.

Criteria

Judging will be based on the following criteria:

• incorporation of W3C (Web accessibility) guidelines
• intuitive navigation
• access to services is obvious and easy
• well-developed and cohesive set of services
• effective screen layout
• effective adaptation of language and content to Web medium
• acceptable response time
• conformity to default window sizes across platforms
• page length appropriate to content
• link names reflecting the title of target page
• displaying effectively in a range of browsers
• effective use of feedback methods
• timeliness of content
• printability (if applicable)

Awards:

Three awards are planned annually - first place, second place, and third place.

Nominations:

Nominations for 2008 are now closed.