Each year it is a greater challenge to review sites and pick those that are outstanding. To minimize the task of reviewing sites, clubs are asked to submit their sites for the competition. In addition, each club was required to provide a reviewer who would evaluate web sites of 10 other clubs. Results of this review were used to the top large and small club web sites for final judging. We always receive lots of feedfack from reviewers about how much they enjoyed looking at other clubs web sites and how it had given them new ideas for their own clubs. This year a common comment was how much the quality of web sites has improved.

Judging was done in each of two categories, small clubs with 200 members or less, and large clubs with over 200 members. Three Top Sites were picked in each division. Finally, one site was picked from among these six as the Best Site for 2004.

Eligibility

To be eligible sites had to be current RRCA clubs with web sites listed on Jan 1, 2004. They also were required to have a link to the RRCA from their home page.

Judging Criteria

The judging criteria are listed below.

• First Impression
• Layout/Graphic Design
• Ease of Navigation
• Use of Technology
• Depth of Content
• Up to Date
• Uniqueness/Personality
• Contribution to RRCA

Here are this year's winners, (listed alphabetically in each division):

2004 Large Club Top Sites

• Birmingham Track Club, AL
• New York Flyers, NY
• Twin City Track Club, NC

2004 Small Club Top Sites

• Anderson Road Runners, SC
• BG Road Runners, KY
• Lake Ridge Runners, VA

2004 Best Site

• Lake Ridge Runners, VA

Webmaster Joe Malinowski has been invited to the RRCA convention to receive his award.

Comments

First my thanks to all the club reviewers for their help looking at the pages. Without the help of these reviewers, it would not be possible to reduce the judging job down to something manageable.

Picks for the top small and large clubs were very consistent between reviewers. After that, if was a difficult choice for the top site since the competing clubs all had areas where they were quite strong and they were not necessarily the same areas. Special mention should be made of the New York Flyers site which makes innovative use of the technology and RRCA web site resources.

Those of you who want to be competitive next year should "steal" some of the ideas used by this years winners.

Warren Finke webmaster