I am always amazed at the number of web design companies that enter contest given by people that don’t have a clue about web design and compete for their little gold start that can be added to their web design.

To start with the little star, trophy or whatever else they are giving away always looks tacky. And if the web designer was worth two cents he could create his own.

These web awards are nothing more than a link schemes, created to get links back to the site giving out the award. If you take a moment you will notice that all of them can be clicked on and will then take you to another site.

In most cases the winners are chosen because they are able to send more traffic to the site than anyone else, or so they say. The truth is everyone is a winner because the site doing the competition wants the links and could care less about what the websites look like that are in the competition.

Web designers should know better and people should stay away from web design sites that are stupid enough to put these awards on their sites.