Topic: Nominations for WXforum.net featured website, Summer 2011 now open

[saratogaWX]

Happy Autumnal equinox!  It's time to start the search for the WXForum.net Featured Weather Website for Summer, 2011, so please post your nominations (with a short description about your nominee) in this thread.

Gary's guidance

Please list your nominations in this thread - it certainly can't hurt for you to describe why you think your nomination is deserving of this honor.

Don't forget that it is perfectly OK to nominate someone who has been nominated in the past but was not selected! We've had some very deserving nominees, and close runoffs!

Some criteria to consider when making nominations:


The visual attractiveness of the site
Ease of navigation
Quality and quantity of useful or interesting information
Educational value
Distinctiveness


While not a hard and fast rule, sites that only use the unmodified default web page template that comes with the software, while absolutely useful and functional, may not cross into that next level to warrant featuring in this manner. Please try to address these areas while nominating a site.

We'll run the nominations through Monday, October 3, 2011, then start a new thread for polling on Tuesday, October 3, 2011. The polling will run through Tuesday, October 18, 2011.

Just for reference, here were the previous honorees:
Spring, 2011 - Featured Weather Website is www.daculaweather.com
Spring, 2010 - Featured Weather Website is www.eldoradocountyweather.com
Spring, 2009 - Featured Weather Website is www.weather.ricksturf.com
Winter, 2008 - Featured Weather Website is stillweather.com
Fall, 2008 - Featured Weather Website is espwxctr.com
Summer, 2008 - Featured Weather Website is ThorntonWeather.com
Spring, 2008 - Featured Weather website is RoanokeValleyWeather.com
Winter, 2007 - Featured Weather website is DeltaWeatherCam.com
Fall, 2007 - Featured Weather Website is tobaccovilleweather.com
Summer, 2007 - Featured Weather Website is neondesert.com
Spring, 2007 - Featured Weather Website is desertweather.com
Winter, 2006 - Featured Weather Website carterlake.org
Fall, 2006 - Featured website Saratoga-weather.org
May, 2006 - featured website beamsvillewx.ca
April, 2006 - featured website capeweather.com
January, 2006 - featured website weather.anolecomputer.com
December, 2005 - Featured website tawasbayweather.com
November, 2005 - Featured website oldlineweather.com
October, 2005 - Featured website weatherbus.com
September, 2005 - featured website - Loganvillageweather.com
August, 2005 - Featured website Lighthouseweather.com

Details on each of the above sites are available on the Featured Weather Website forum.


Let the nominations begin!

[Axelvold]

I would like to nominate http://weather.crowe.co.nz/

The site is nice and clean and very easy to navigate.
And the layout is very nice and there is a lot of history on the page.

Well done Chris 

[Arthurhh]

I would like to nominate http://weather.crowe.co.nz/

The site is nice and clean and very easy to navigate.
And the layout is very nice and there is a lot of history on the page.

Well done Chris  =D&gt:

I second that, Chris has developed this site using his own software and data borrowed from a nearby associate. He has now I believe aquired his own weather station.

[iisfaq]

I second that, Chris has developed this site using his own software and data borrowed from a nearby associate. He has now I believe aquired his own weather station.

Thanks for the vote - and yes I have my own station now - just writing my own software to interface to it, hence the reason it is not live yet.

Chris

[Axelvold]

Thanks for the vote - and yes I have my own station now - just writing my own software to interface to it, hence the reason it is not live yet.

Chris

Well the voting have not started yet, this is just the nomination. 

But as it looks right now, you will be the winner. 

[Arthurhh]

Thanks for the vote - and yes I have my own station now - just writing my own software to interface to it, hence the reason it is not live yet.

Chris

Well the voting have not started yet, this is just the nomination.  

But as it looks right now, you will be the winner.  

  I second that motion  

[saratogaWX]

Hmmm... there seems to be only a small interest in doing a WXForum.net featured website this time..

I'll add in the runners-up from our last two polls to the mix:

Relay, Maryland, USA         - http://www.relayweather.com/  (Spring, 2011 runner-up)
Axelvold, Skåne, Sweden    -  http://www.axelvold.net/  (Spring, 2010 runner-up)

Best regards,
Ken

p.s. .. Keep those nominations coming

[ocala]

I'll nominate Tony's site.
http://cnyweather.com/
Just a great site IMOP. It's the only site I have seen that has a truly live web cam. No hitches or stop and go's.