The LeatherPages.com Website Awards have been set up to celebrate excellence in web publishing supporting the leather, apparel and footwear industries. They encourage creativity, originality, new content, industry growth and industry website promotion for all leather sectors.

Our LeatherPages.com Website Awards are not only setup to reward today's leather sector webmasters, but all those individuals and teams involved in the growth and support of their company’s online presence and the promotion of the leather industry!

If you are looking for the recognition within the leather industry that your website deserves, you are well on your way to learning how to earn one of the prestigious LeatherPages.com Top 5% or Top 25% Leather industry website awards.

What is a Website Award?
An award is a distinction granted to a commercial or personal website, based on the specifics for merit as described in the evaluation criteria. Recipients of a LeatherPages.com Website awards usually receives an award graphic, similar to the ones below, which they may use to publish on their website.

Your benefits in receiving a LeatherPages.com website award:

Why Awards?
The LeatherPages.com Website awards have enormous commercial value to the leather industry and trade individuals. With an estimated six billion pages already published (and growing) on the web, consumers are finding it difficult to identify viable and credible leather industry websites. To that end, recognition is sought by the leather sector and trade individuals to eliminate this barrier and be recognized as one of the best Leather sites on the web. You can harvest from the countless opportunities once you are recognized by LeatherPages.com leading website award program.

Who Can Qualify and What is the Cost?
Nominations for the LeatherPages.com website awards are currently open to leather, leather apparel, leather goods and leather footwear industry sites. Sites can be commercial or individual in nature. Trade organizations, auxiliary leather sector suppliers and leather fairs / events organizers are also encouraged to submit their websites. There is no cost in submitting or nominating a site.

Judging Criteria and Rules
Websites are evaluated using a 100 points scoring system. ALL decisions of the judges will be FINAL. Site owners will be contacted directly with the results of their nominations. Unsuccessful contestants are encouraged to resubmit their website once they have further developed their site. LeatherPages.com reserves the right, in its sole discretion and determination, to a) refuse the evaluation of any or certain sites or b) suspend, disqualify or cancel previously awarded LeatherPages.com website awards. The judging criteria is listed below.

LeatherPages.com Website Award Judging Criteria Functionality & Design (25%) Content & Originality (25%) Browser Compatibility Speed & Bandwidth Sensitivity HTML Quality Ease of Navigation & Links Legality Graphic Design & User Friendliness Aesthetics & Beauty Integration Purpose Human Interactivity Information Process Verbal Expression Attention to detail Creativity Technology Distinctiveness Vision Professionalism & Effectiveness (25%) Consumer / Industry Support & Endorsement (25%) Values & Focus Advanced Components Overall Site Effectiveness Search Engine Readiness Search Engine Rankings URL clarity Differentiation & Branding Strategy Site Popularity, Consumer and Industry Support Customer Service & Client Respect Leather Industry Promotion Supporting Links to Clients and Leather Industry Websites Quality Standards, Products & Services Click Here to Apply for a Website Award!