Tasty Website Award, a word from the Chair

This year’s Tasty Website Award is the first time a Big Chip category has been open to popular vote. We created this new award to fill a gap.
Since they were started in 1997, the Big Chip awards have built up a reputation for integrity and impartiality. An important factor in this has been the maintenance of strict judging standards and this in turn has mean developing a clear specification of the judging criteria for each award. That way the judges have ways to measure and compare the quality of the entries. So, rather than giving prizes to the “best” commercial website for example, entries are judged on the extent to which they have achieved objectives or made use of a particular feature such as animation or new technology. This has gone hand in hand with a desire to include all forms of digital creativity and innovation, not just web-based. So last year for the first time there were no “best website” categories of any form.
A consequence was that some entrants who had designed a website that they felt very proud of weren’t sure which category to enter. “Look” they said, “we’ve simply made a great site”. The answer is of course that that’s very much a matter of taste.
So that’s why we’ve launched the “Tasty Website Award”.
We asked the judges to put on one side any websites that really appealed to them as they went through the entries in each category. We made no specification of criteria, just whatever appealed to their taste. They selected five such tasty sites as a shortlist, and these are now the candidates in the popular vote.
If you’d like to join in, just visit the five sites listed at:
Tasty Website Award
and send in the code name for your choice by SMS to the number given – charged  at standard network rates.
The voting will stay open up to and including Big Chip Evening itself on 18th June when the winner will be announced.
Shaun Fensom