In general I am very impressed with how FIRST is handling the Website Design Award this year. Our new site will, in its current state, get high marks in every category. These criteria effectively destroy the chances of websites that feature Photoshop, Flash, and nothing else, which get good marks with some FIRSTers (who of course were the judges last year). What this does is remove the weight that pretty fluff has on website judging and focuses more on other, more important things. Of course now those wanting to win the Website Award will begin to make their sites
only satisfy the criteria, but this is necessary I suppose. We already satsify them pretty well
(note: our domain is resolving to the new website currently as of this post)