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Title: Nominations for Featured WX Website Spring, 2009 now open
Post by: saratogaWX on August 23, 2009, 09:23:08 PM
It's time to start the search for the WXForum.net Featured Weather Website for Spring, 2009, so please post your nominations (with a short description about your nominee) in this thread.

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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 Friday, August 28, 2009, then start a new thread for polling on Saturday August 29, 2009. The polling will run through Sunday, September 6, 2009.

Just for reference, here were the previous honorees:

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 (http://www.wxforum.net/index.php?board=14.0).


Let the nominations begin!
Title: Re: Nominations for Featured WX Website Spring, 2009 now open
Post by: Axelvold on August 24, 2009, 03:37:26 AM
I will try to nominate my own web page once more, www.axelvold.net

And this is why i think my page should be the featured WX website spring 2009.

The site is easy to navigate and covers most areas in terms of weather and it have a clean layout.

There are some fines on the page such as weather maps and webcam archive of images from other weather stations around the world.

Other things that are on the page and that is not weather-related is my photo album where I publish photos I have taken.

The site is located on my own computer in Axelvold, so I do everything from the server to the layout of the site, it have been up and running since July 2008


So if you like my site, please give it your vote.

Regards
Lars Magnusson / webmaster & site owner
Title: Re: Nominations for Featured WX Website Spring, 2009 now open
Post by: TorH on August 24, 2009, 03:44:59 AM
Lars i support your nominee!! I should just nominate your site, when i saw you did it yourself  =D>
It's a great site, which easy navigation and very informative. And it have the great site with webcams from over all the world, and a nice link site.

Overall a very nice, clean and informative WX site  =D>
Title: Re: Nominations for Featured WX Website Spring, 2009 now open
Post by: BfdWx on August 24, 2009, 07:46:13 AM
I'll throw a nomination in for "Curly" of Michiana Weather (http://www.weather.ricksturf.com/). The site has an excellent visual appeal along with the integration of some of the owners own scripts.

Jack
Title: Re: Nominations for Featured WX Website Spring, 2009 now open
Post by: offroadjosh on August 24, 2009, 10:38:12 AM
Even though my site  is nothing exciting, it is my first site i have built so i would like to nominate me.

http://www.josh.northwestwx.com



Josh

Title: Re: Nominations for Featured WX Website Spring, 2009 now open
Post by: tomcj2 on August 24, 2009, 11:12:10 AM
I nominate Mackweather.com.  The main page is very clean, and uncluttered.  As you delve into it you can get almost any weather related data that you would ever want.  Check it out at http://www.mackweather.com/ (http://www.mackweather.com/)
Title: Re: Nominations for Featured WX Website Spring, 2009 now open
Post by: W Thomas on August 27, 2009, 09:53:15 PM
What the heck!  I usually never do this sort of thing but I will anyway!  Toot my own horn I guess..

I nominate my humble site for what it is  http://www.smythweather.net

Certainly not the most fanciest page out there but we're trying LOL!!!


Thanks!
Title: Re: Nominations for Featured WX Website Spring, 2009 now open
Post by: Anthony on August 28, 2009, 08:51:48 AM
Well, since I've had several people tell me that my sit has they most weather information they have seen on a web site I will again nominate my self.

Anthony's Weather  www.anthonysweather.com

Good luck to all nominees.

Title: Re: Nominations for Featured WX Website Spring, 2009 now open
Post by: W Thomas on August 28, 2009, 09:34:10 AM
Well, since I've had several people tell me that my sit has they most weather information they have seen on a web site I will again nominate my self.

Anthony's Weather  www.anthonysweather.com

Good luck to all nominees.



You definitely have a good site Anthony!
Title: Re: Nominations for Featured WX Website Spring, 2009 now open
Post by: offroadjosh on August 28, 2009, 10:37:43 AM
i am going to change my nomination :P  I nominate Chucks site http://www.chucksweather.com/index.php

Really like how his page is set up.


Josh
Title: Re: Nominations for Featured WX Website Spring, 2009 now open
Post by: saratogaWX on August 28, 2009, 12:35:05 PM
With Josh's change of nomination, the nominated sites are currently

Axelvold, Skåne, Sweden   http://www.axelvold.net/
Beckley, West Virginia, USA   http://www.anthonysweather.com/
Elkhart, Indiana, USA   http://www.weather.ricksturf.com/
Glendive, Montana, USA   http://www.chucksweather.com/
Marion, Virginia, USA   http://www.smythweather.net/
Unionville, Ontario, Canada   http://www.mackweather.com/

and the nominations will close at 11pm Pacific tonight (hey... I like my sleep too :) )

Best regards,
Ken
Title: Re: Nominations for Featured WX Website Spring, 2009 now open
Post by: New York WX on August 28, 2009, 12:40:41 PM
Can myn be put on the list???          http://nyweather.ning.com/
Title: Re: Nominations for Featured WX Website Spring, 2009 now open
Post by: saratogaWX on August 28, 2009, 12:45:57 PM
Can myn be put on the list???          http://nyweather.ning.com/
I think that if you were offering data from your own personal weather station on your website, then yes .. all the other nominees are publishing the weather data from their own station.  As I understand it, you don't have a weather station quite yet, so I don't think it's appropriate to have your website in the nomination list at this time.

Best regards,
Ken
Title: Re: Nominations for Featured WX Website Spring, 2009 now open
Post by: Mark / Ohio on August 29, 2009, 12:29:24 AM
...the nominations will close at 11pm Pacific tonight (hey... I like my sleep too :) )
....

Must be a West Coast thing.   ;)
Title: Re: Nominations for Featured WX Website Spring, 2009 now open
Post by: wxkpt on August 29, 2009, 01:04:03 AM
I would like to go for http://www.capeweather.com/
I think a lot of work has been put in to his site here
Title: Re: Nominations for Featured WX Website Spring, 2009 now open
Post by: Strgazr27 on August 29, 2009, 01:09:43 AM
I've gotta go with Lars site. Self-hosted, self-built and self maintained #-o He deserves a medal for all that Lol.

Bobby