Is your website based on plain English principles?

The Best Plain English Website category recognises the best examples of websites that illustrate the principles of plain English. The judges are looking for highly usable, reader-focused website or intranet content.

The Best Plain English Website category has two awards:

• Public Sector / Non-Government Organisation
• Private Sector

Each entry in this category costs $143.75 including GST or $74.75 including GST for registered charities. This fee goes completely towards running the Awards.

What you need to know

On the entry form you’ll need to give information about your website’s purpose, your target reader, and whether your website has been user-tested. The judges will evaluate the homepage plus up to nine top and lower level pages on the published site.

If you can show ‘befores and afters’ of your webpages, consider also entering the Best Plain English Turnaround award.

Prizes for this award

The winner of each of the Best Plain English Website awards will receive:

• a stunning steel and bronze trophy produced for the Awards by Wellington sculptor Campbell Maud
• the latest StyleWriter plain English editing software — single-user licence (from Editor Software)
• a place on any of Write Limited’s 1-day public workshops.

Please email [email protected] if you have any questions.