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Award of Excellence - Glorycloud's Reflections

Awards in the 90's

March 11, 1998 - A gentle place of refreshment and joy! It's creator, Ellen Lebsock has created a charming place of inviting warmth! Dropping by her place is like opening the door to Grandma's house just as she's taking some cookies out of the oven!

September 2005—

Ellen,

The American Association Of Webmasters Awards are primarily designed to supply formal recognition to webmasters and designers who have shown outstanding achievement in web design, content and creativity.

Congratulations! Your site at: Ellen Lebsock Design has been selected to receive The American Association Of Webmasters, "Gold" Award.  We see all the hard work and dedication that you have put into constructing your web site and your efforts are well deserved.  Your site displays:  A nice clean Design and Layout of Website, with quality content and informative information for your visitors.

A link to your site has been placed on our winners list.  You may verify this by going to our site at: http://www.aawebmasters.com and click on the award type you have won and the month, (Gold Award - September 2005) from our drop down menu.

 

2003

July 2003— Nana Ellen's Stories 'n' Stuff was selected as the NOVA SITE of the month at netnacs.com    WOW!!

The selection was for June 2003, so by the time you read this we may have been moved to the archives. Even if our site is still the featured site, I suggest you have a look at the archives anyway. Being listed here is like being awarded a spot in Who's Who. These sites are the best of the best. The award cannot be applied for. Sites are chosen by the people who have earned the right to be top rated award sites themselves.

I am absolutely thrilled to be included! Thanks to Will Harbeson for submitting my site and to the folks at NetNacs for including it in their very impressive list of Nova Sites.

May 2003 - Hello Ellen, please accept the SunsetSurfers Gold Medal of Excellence for your efforts at Nana Ellen's Stories 'n' Stuff. You have been very busy! Each time I have visited your site has grown. What touches me still is your great skill with your original art and how well it fits your "comfy" theme. Very impressive site that welcomes it's visitors with open arms and a truly warm reception while utilizing technology and good taste. Well done, enjoy your award, you've earned it.

Will Harbeson
www.sunsetsurfers.com
     Presented by Harbeson and Associates, sites are judged by Will and occasionally his wife Helen, both proud recipients of Emmy awards for television photography. Their awards program is top-notch and the criteria for earning an award actually means something.
      "Since December of 1999 these medals have been earned by web site designers who have made significant contributions to the improvement of the World Wide Web by online application of their expertise. By reviewing and listing these sites we hope to make surfing the web somewhat better for everyone. We have learned a great deal from both the community of awards givers and from looking at the sites (like yours) that apply for this award."
     I must tell you - I'm proud to have earned this award. It is one that I feel lends credibility to nanaellen.com. Bringing my web site up to the Gold Medal level was a learning experience... one that I highly recommend for any web site designer or developer.

 

April 2003–Congratulations! Nana Ellen's Stories n Stuff has been reviewed and chosen to bear the 2003-2004 Golden Web Award.
      Presented by The International Association of Web Masters and Designers - The Golden Web Award makes a dramatic difference in your IT career by adding instant recognition and credibility to your professional standing.
      The Golden Web Awards is a FREE service of the Association and is presented to those sites whose web design, originality and content have achieved levels of excellence deserving of recognition. To verify the award, please visit: http://www.goldenwebawards.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi and enter http://nanaellen.com

April 2003– "Congratulations from all the staff at Art Space 2000.com. You have won the "World Web Award of Excellence" for originality, overall design and appearance, ease of navigation, and content. Keep up the good work. Sincerely, Robert E. Lattel."     

 

 

2002
This year we've applied for a few awards... those we feel will lend credibility to our site.
Asking other professional web site designers to tell us what they think of our work, as it were:

 

August 2002 - We have visited and reviewed your site. It is always a pleasure to review a professional well-designed site. The design is fresh and unique and represents your content very well. Please accept the attached Five Star award to be proudly displayed on your site.

To qualify for an award on our first two levels (Diamond and Five Star), your site must be above average in all five and excel in two or more categories of graphic design, layout, content, professionalism and interactivity and be original (not a template), innovative and unique in some way. It must be the kind of site that makes you say, "Wow, I wish I had thought of that!", or "How did they do that?".

Note: Web Worksite is still going strong, but no longer offering awards. It remains a great resource for aspiring web site designers. Click HERE to visit the new 2003 Worksite

 

 

August 2002 - Please accept the Harbeson and Associates Bronze Medal of Excellence for your efforts at Nana Ellen Stories 'n' Stuff. I really did enjoy my visits to your site. I was especially impressed with your splash page design, comforting, easy to access and very pretty. The fact that your site is all original is impressive as well. Well done site, enjoy your award, you've earned it.

 

July 2002 - Presented by The International Association of Web Masters and Designers - The Golden Web Award makes a dramatic difference in your IT career by adding instant recognition and credibility to your professional standing.

The Golden Web Awards is a FREE service of the Association and is presented to those sites whose web design, originality and content have achieved levels of excellence deserving of recognition. To verify the award, please visit: http://www.goldenwebawards.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi and enter http://nanaellen.com

 

 

March 2002 - Congratulations! Your site has been chosen as a PrimeTap Pick. This award is given only to web sites that we find to be a step above the rest. We choose sites for quality content. Your site was selected for its informative, entertaining and useful content as well as for its wonderful design. We are very impressed with the content of your site and if you are interested in sharing articles or tidbits with our online magazine or PrimeTap.org (Public Access Web) we would be happy to include them with a link back to your site.

 

 

2001

November 2001 - Congratulations!! I have recently taken over as Awards Administrator. I wanted to take this chance to congratulate you on winning the Gold award for Featured Site of the Month. Keep up the great work on your site!
Rhonda Cluff
PSPUG Awards Administrator

 

 

May 2001 - Hello Nana Ellen - My name is Bobbie Peachey, the Web Clip Art Guide for About.com. Each week I search for the best clip art sites to add to my Subjects (clip art resource links) at: http://webclipart.about.com/mlibrary.htm Your clip art resources have been chosen as an exceptional site and one or more of your pages has been added to the Subject (clip art links) indexes and categories below: Backgrounds: Full Backgrounds: Mixed Holidays/Special: Various & Mixed Holidays Web Basics: Bullets, Buttons & Balls

 

 

When Nana Ellen's was established online at AOL in November '96 we participated in a banner exchange with several like-minded web site designers. Oddly enough most of us are still around and dispite numerous changes... on the WWW, design styles, domain names - whatever - I think these friends are in it for the long haul... just as I am.