The Web has many personalities. Depending on the road taken, the Web experience can be at once redeeming and frustrating, beautiful and hideous, efficient and painfully slow. But in the final analysis, this medium is unlike any before it. We are certain that regardless of your experience, you too have witnessed the Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

In its evolution from data warehouse, the Web has become a palette on which many talented people offer their best. Artists, farmers and doctors alike contribute for a variety of reasons. Commercial reward, personal pleasure or simply a shot at legacy and its 15 minutes of fame lead us to create on the Web. But since the advent of simple authoring tools, it is the personal Web site that has represented the fastest growth category among the millions of sites in existence.

It is also this category that often represents the best and the worst of the Internet. From stunning examples of original Flash to unbearable blinking icons and midi files of “Feelings,” these sites can either lift our souls or send us screaming for a good night of television. Professionally designed corporate and commerce sites are also not immune. Clients spending six and seven figures are often left with sites that bear no relation to their out-of-pocket cost. These awards are intended to honor those sites that stand above the fray and contribute to the Web’s aesthetic and functional improvement.

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