Keyboards for Christ Music Ministry/Award Program

Application Form

Your application form should be easy to read and simple. Decide what information you will need from the applicant, like name, age, email address, url and site description. Also you must provide an alternate email for people who use browsers without forms. You can get free forms from several places one popular resource is Bravenet that is the one this site uses but there are other free ones on the web that you can use. It is important that you have a reply to each application to acknowledge that you recieved their application. Also you should post a e-mail address incase your form will not work. There are many free form's for you to use. Most Host companies supply you with free forms like Bravehost.

First and Last Name:

Name of your web site

Your Web site address

E-Mail Address:Phrase we asked for We can do it together

Your Age18 or older

Comments I enjoyed you award program keep up the great work.

If one collects information you should state on your site about their privacy. You should also have a age requirement for your applicants. Applicants need to know that their information is confidential, so you must state what you intend to do with their information.

It is important that you have a copyright statement to Protect all of your work that you have put into designing your program. You can obtain copyright information from the Library of Congress to copyright you program. There is no protect by simply stating on your pages that it is copyrighted 2008 all rights reserved. Without registering your copyright it is meaningless. It is important that you also state what can be used and what can't within your program materials. If you use other peoples material you must give them credit for such. Give credit where credit is due, list all resources that you have used to create your site that don't belong to you along with links to their sites.

Code Of Ethics code of ethics - A statement of the polices, pledges, guidelines and practices that will be followed by an award program and its reviewers.

Ethics is the heart of all award programs. We all have to live by some ethics and standards. Show that you have high standards by having a code of ethics. Also join an ethics program such as, Apex or Ethic Pleadge, they wil usually give you a statement that you can use on you ethics page.

Statistics/Status Page Status status page - Any Web page that displays where an award program or nominated Web site is in the review process.Award seekers like to follow the path of the applications they submit to award programs and by stating statistics it is very helpful to the applicant as they can see their chances of winning your award. Also if you give an application number code to an applicant you can design a chart showing the codes so that they may track their progress as the evaluation proceeds.

Resources

A good award program always has a resources page. This is where you can list your favorite tools for web design and share them with those who come to visit your site. The purpose of resources is to help others to improve their sites so having this page is very important! Here are some examples

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http://babelfish.altavista.com/

http://www.mycontactform.com/

Link Checker to check your entire web site http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html

Net Mechanic http://www.netmechanic.com/products/TryIt.shtml

Winners Pages winners' list - Any Web page that displays winning sites and/or individuals.

In all award programs it is a must that you show the internet community those who have recieved you award. You must devise a way in which you will present your winners. Try to do this in a pleasant manner giving laudations, dates, site descriptions and maybe also screen shots of their sites. This page should be done extremely well and stand out from your program. As your program grows you may even want to include what is called a screen shot of the winning site.

Screen shot