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Nominations for Featured WX Website Spring, 2008 now open
« on: July 27, 2008, 05:10:29 PM »
It's time to start the search for the WXForum.net Featured Weather Website for Spring, 2008, 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 Tuesday, 05-August-2008, then start a new thread for polling on Wednesday, 06-Aug-20088. The polling will run through Tuesday, 19-August-2008.

Just for reference, here were the previous honorees:
Winter, 2007 - Featured Weather website is DeltaWeatherCam.com
Fall, 2007 - Featured Weather Website is tobaccoville.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!
Ken True/Saratoga, CA, USA main site: saratoga-weather.org
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Re: Nominations for Featured WX Website Spring, 2008 now open
« Reply #1 on: July 28, 2008, 03:44:32 AM »
Spring?

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Re: Nominations for Featured WX Website Spring, 2008 now open
« Reply #2 on: July 28, 2008, 10:20:33 AM »
Yes, Spring, 2008 .. we wait until mid-way through the next season to start the nomination and polling. :)
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Re: Nominations for Featured WX Website Spring, 2008 now open
« Reply #3 on: July 29, 2008, 08:03:35 AM »
Well I know it isn't much. But I'll nominate my self, www.anthonysweather.com. Atleast that way I'll get 1 vote.



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Re: Nominations for Featured WX Website Spring, 2008 now open
« Reply #4 on: July 29, 2008, 05:31:45 PM »
Hi

I would like to nominate myself too:

www.buskelundtoften.dk/vejret/english/

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Re: Nominations for Featured WX Website Spring, 2008 now open
« Reply #5 on: July 29, 2008, 06:25:45 PM »
Well, at the risk of breaking my streak of winning nominations (not that this one isn't great) - I'd like to nominate:

Roanoke Valley Weather

http://www.roanokevalleyweather.com/

This site's listing of NOAA weather radio stations is the best on the web.  They started compiling long ago, and I think the listing is a great service.  They have a station map that WU does not have, and even list "INTERACTIVE NON-STREAMING AUDIO"

The rest of the site is top notch as well - including the cool lake water level indicatiors  :eek:

South of the Tracks, Anchorage, KY

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Re: Nominations for Featured WX Website Spring, 2008 now open
« Reply #6 on: July 30, 2008, 03:21:31 PM »
Ok, I'll try again... :grin:

And now ladies and gentlemen..............

ESPERANZA WEATHER CENTER
www.espwxctr.com

I will let the site speak for itself..... :grin:

 \:D/  \:D/  \:D/

Jim
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Re: Nominations for Featured WX Website Spring, 2008 now open
« Reply #7 on: August 05, 2008, 06:42:23 PM »
Currently we stand at 4 sites in the running, and nominations close tonight.

Beckley, West Virginia, USA http://www.anthonysweather.com/
Buskelundtoften, Silkeborg, Denmark http://www.buskelundtoften.dk/vejret/english/
Lexington Park, Maryland, USA http://www.espwxctr.com/
Roanoke, Virginia, USA  http://www.roanokevalleyweather.com/
Ken True/Saratoga, CA, USA main site: saratoga-weather.org
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Re: Nominations for Featured WX Website Spring, 2008 now open
« Reply #8 on: August 05, 2008, 06:47:39 PM »
www.thanko.info

I'll nominate myself just to get another site in there.  :grin:

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Re: Nominations for Featured WX Website Spring, 2008 now open
« Reply #9 on: August 05, 2008, 07:19:41 PM »

Trying to build a weather web page, I guess between hear and TOP I have looked at between 400 & 500 web pages to try and get some ideas.  Now that really makes one confused, not that I have not always been.  There are some really nice ones.  Hope I live another 20 years or so, so I may get in an acceptable category.

I would like to nominate:

http://www.nhweatherdata.com/

Bill.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> :-)

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Re: Nominations for Featured WX Website Spring, 2008 now open
« Reply #10 on: August 06, 2008, 01:34:19 AM »
I would nominate mine but I still have some work to finish on it since I am still adding things, so it might be a couple more weeks, maybe next time. Unless someone would like to nominate me then I would wait till fall/winter. I would like to nominate...

MichiganWxSystem
http://www.michiganwxsystem.com/

Jeff has a very nice site IMO and has a lot of useful information for his state as well has the nation. He is a big contributor to the weather community both at HamWeather, GRlevel3, and others. He develops a lot of his own weather maps and information as well as other plugins and scripts for numerous programs. He also offers a lot of affordable services for weather web sites. So that is my nomination.

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Re: Nominations for Featured WX Website Spring, 2008 now open
« Reply #11 on: August 06, 2008, 12:00:03 PM »
Thanks for all the nominations!  I'll post the polling in another thread.
Ken True/Saratoga, CA, USA main site: saratoga-weather.org
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