Activism
Activism
Sites facilitating political change, social movement, human rights, public education and reform, or revolution.
Art
Art
Sites primarily to display or promote art of any medium, art galleries, art auctions or content focused on art criticism or the art world.
Associations
Associations
Sites for industry or trade associations or groups.
Automotive
Automotive
Sites providing information or commerce for the automotive industry, including sites for auto makers, current car models, auto dealers (new or used), new cars for sale, used cars, car parts or accessories, car culture or car customizing.
Banking/Bill paying
Banking/Bill paying
Sites providing online consumer banking and bill paying services or other consumer related saving and lending services.
Beauty and Cosmetics
Beauty and Cosmetics
Sites promoting beauty and cosmetic-related products, health and beauty aids, hair and makeup products, skincare, and commentary or content related to any of the above.
Blog - Business
Blog - Business
Sites that serve as weblogs or online journals for professional and business related topics.
Blog - Culture/Personal
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Blog - Culture/Personal
Sites created by individuals or groups that serve as weblogs or online journals for cultural or personal topics.
Blog - Political
Blog - Political
Sites that serve as weblogs or online journals for political and civic oriented topics.
Broadband
Broadband
Sites fully integrating bandwidth-intensive interactive content. This content may include video, animation, and like dynamic elements that bring the computer, television, radio and film one step closer to convergence.
Celebrity/Fan
Celebrity/Fan
Sites focused on celebrating, promoting or honoring celebrities, personalities, bands, athletes, movie actors, or other people of note.
Charitable Organizations/Non-Profit
Charitable Organizations/Non-Profit
Sites for charities and charitable organizations whose primary purpose is helping people or other worthy causes.
Community
Community
Sites creating and facilitating online community, connectedness and/or communication around shared interests. These sites can target either a broad-based or niche audience.
Consumer Electronics
Consumer Electronics
Sites marketing or promoting items and services that would be classified as consumer electronics such as handheld devices, PDAs, personal computers, televisions, stereos, home audio/video equipment, home theater systems, video game platforms and consoles and other related electronic products.
Corporate Communications
Corporate Communications
Sites that serve as online identities for corporations, organizations, businesses or professional individuals. These sites may promote, market or provide information and a point of contact for products, services, corporate individuals or companies involved in on or offline commerce.
Cultural Institutions
Cultural Institutions
Sites for museums, parks, zoos, gardens, aquariums, theatres, arenas and any other institutions of cultural significance.
Education
Education
Sites that are educational, promote education, or provide online curriculum or education services. This category includes educational content for children or adults, resources for educators, and "distance learning" courses. Does not include school sites, see School.
Employment
Employment
Sites featuring job and employment listings, job and career search services, recruiting services, career advice, headhunting or other career or job related information.
Events
Events
Sites promoting specific events including concerts, fairs, festivals, sporting events, tours, or other events.
Family/Parenting
Family/Parenting
Sites providing content related to family issues, child rearing, family activities, pregnancy, parenting tips and other information.
Fashion
Fashion
Sites promoting personal style, clothing, design, and accessories. These include sites selling fashion items or promoting designers, and editorial sites with fashion news and information.
Financial Services
Financial Services
Sites providing financial services and/or information. These include online stock trading, financial news, mortgage information, credit cards, or investor relations and services. Does not include online banking sites. See Banking/Bill Paying.
Food and Beverage
Food and Beverage
Sites promoting food and beverage products including snack foods, candy, confections, chewing gum, fresh and frozen food, soft drinks, juices, energy drinks and water. Also sites featuring content about food or beverages, including recipes or recommendations.
Games
Games
Sites featuring direct online gaming for individuals or multi-player. Includes games of any type including action, sports, fantasy, skill, or logic. Please enter branded or sponsored games in the Interactive Advertising Games/Applications category. Sites promoting, reviewing, and providing gaming resources should be entered in the Games-Related category.
Games-Related
Games-Related
Sites devoted to the world and culture of computer gaming. This includes gaming news, gaming magazines, walkthroughs, FAQs and gaming resources. Sites that feature playable single- or multiplayer games should be entered in the Games category.

Government
Government
Sites providing information and services pertaining to government matters. These include sites that enable online citizen action, offer self-help information, publish government documents and forms, and provide access to services provided by government agencies.
Guides/Ratings/Reviews
Guides/Ratings/Reviews
Sites that provide reviews of products or services for either consumer or business audiences. These include restaurant reviews, travel reviews, business product or service reviews, buying guides, best-of resources, product and price comparison sites.
Health
Health
Sites providing information and resources to improve personal health and well-being. These may include medical news sites, health information, and online diagnosis. Health includes not only medicine but also includes alternative and mental health and fitness Web sites.
Humor
Humor
Sites dedicated to comedy or the art of laughter.
Insurance
Insurance
Sites providing information, commerce or other services featuring insurance products and services for home, auto, liability, business or any other purposes.
IT Hardware/Software
IT Hardware/Software
Sites providing information or commerce for information technology, hardware and software, including computers, servers, networking equipment, business or consumer software products and services, and all other technology and information services related to hardware or software.
Law
Law
Web sites for law firms, legal service providers, pro-bono legal services, litigation support, and self-help legal information. Sites that feature content on legal issues, trials, law and business issues, court decisions or legal advocacy.
Lifestyle
Lifestyle
Sites featuring commentary, commerce and advice on lifestyle and living topics such as gardening, home improvement, interior design, architecture, and like subjects. Sites touching on the personal side of life by providing information and resources that allow people to live on their own terms.
Magazine
Magazine
Sites that are online editions or companions to offline business or consumer magazines, or sites published only online ('zines).
Movie and Film
Movie and Film
Sites dedicated to promotion, celebration and presentation of films, movies and film culture. These include movie promotional sites, film news, film resources, film magazines and film archives. This does not include fan sites - See Celebrity/Fan.
Music
Music
Sites dedicated to the distribution and/or presentation of music or musical information. These sites may provide a direct listening experience, commerce, or promote musical awareness including musicians' or record labels' sites, sites that promote musical events, or those that teach music or about music.
NetArt
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NetArt
Projects that integrate art and technology, exploring and expanding the distinctive capacity of the medium. Projects must include a Web-based component and may include an offline element.
News
News
Sites developed for the distribution of recent happenings. These may be offshoots of established broadcast or other existing news operations, or developed specifically for online news.
Newspaper
Newspaper
Sites that are online editions or companions to offline newspapers.
Personal Website
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Personal Website
Sites about individuals. These personal sites are created by you about you, by you about someone else, or by someone else about you.
Pharmaceuticals
Pharmaceuticals
Sites promoting or marketing prescription or non-prescription drugs and medical treatment or sites providing information on pharmaceutical products.
Podcasts
Podcasts
Sites dedicated to the distribution and/or presentation of podcasts or podcast information. These sites may provide a direct listening experience, commerce, or promote podcasting awareness, including individuals' or portals' podcast sites, those that teach podcast practices, or are generally about podcasts.
Politics
Politics
Sites providing political information. These may include campaign or candidate sites, political resources, or political news sites promoting a political cause or action.
Professional Services
Professional Services
Sites for professional service firms including consultants of any type, accountants and other business service providers.
Radio
Radio
Sites with ties to a radio network, station, or program, either on the air or on the Web. This category includes sites that relate to a specific musical or talk-radio show, segment, or station.
Real Estate
Real Estate
Sites marketing or promoting the sale or rental of residential or commercial real estate, including real estate listings, brokers and brokerage services, real estate agents, and sites for developments, buildings or other real estate holdings.
Religion and Spirituality
Religion and Spirituality
Sites focusing on the spirit or the soul, evangelizing spiritual practice, celebrating God(s) or any other divine power - traditional or otherwise. These include sites which provide information about the ritual, history and practice of all forms of spirituality, church and temple sites, online confessions, virtual prayer groups, and astrology sites as well as sites that provide a platform for direct online spiritual experience.
Restaurant
Restaurant
Sites for restaurants, bars, restaurant chains, and other food and drink establishments. Does not include Review sites. See Guides/ Ratings/Reviews.
Retail
Retail
Sites providing consumers online commerce and retail sales of any products or services.
School/University
School/University
Sites for schools (high school, secondary school, elementary school), specialty school, technical school, colleges, universities and other schools.
Science
Science
Sites distributing information related to scientific exploration. These include science exhibits, science museums, science organizations, science laboratories, and academic institutions.
Self-Promotion/Portfolio
Self-Promotion/Portfolio
An individual's creative work or collection of examples of prior projects, used to promote experience, qualifications, and skills.
An online resume and demonstration of professional abilities on an individual basis. For companies, see Professional Services.
Services & Applications
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Services & Applications
Sites, Web applications, widgets and desktop apps allowing real world activities to be done online. These include agent or bot sites as well as application sites that help people find edit photos, create documents, find jobs, locate houses, make dates, or which otherwise facilitate typically offline activities from a keyboard.
Social Networking
Social Networking
Sites that facilitate the process of connecting individuals through the Internet. Their purpose may be business or pleasure. They may use friend-of-friend connections to form a social network or use technology to make the connection. Includes dating and matchmaking sites.
Sports
Sports
Sites for sports news, sporting culture, sports teams, sports statistics, sports data, sporting events, and sports history. Includes fantasy sports sites.
Student
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Student
For students who have designed web sites for academic
purposes or as part of developing a portfolio. Category limited to
works of students.
Telecommunications
Telecommunications
Sites for cellular or mobile phones, accessories, voice over IP, phone service, long distance service, ring tones, or any other mobile or land-line phone or phone service.
Television
Television
Sites which are online counterparts of television programs, promote television programs, television networks, or cable networks.
Tourism
Tourism
Sites that promote travel and tourism destinations, specific travel activities or promotional and informational tourism websites. Includes city, country or regional sites, tourist attractions, and chamber of commerce sites.
Travel
Travel
Sites that provide travel services and information. These include online agents for purchasing tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars, vacation packages and other travel services. Includes online travel guides, travel writing, and travel tools.
Weird
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Weird
Sites that just seem strange, offbeat or odd. This category includes sites that reflect a fresh perspective in thought and action strong enough to start a revolution, change a behavior pattern, or advance old thinking lodged in bad habits, or that are just plain weird.
Youth
Youth
Sites for those under 18: kids, youth, adolescents, teens and young adults.