hat Readers Continue to Say...

"Hello Míc, It is an honour and a joy for me to distinguish your home page, The Beeline, today with the Asder Award in Gold. The Beeline is a very good and, above all, informative site. Your technical knowledge reflects in this Web page. Again, congratulations!" -- Uwe Bartzsch, webmaster, World of Asder, Renningen, Germany

"Hello Míc, GTA, German Top Awards International, is delighted to welcome you as our latest member. According to our criteria and regulations, our panel of evaluators has made the decision to rate your awards program 'Level 5.' Needless to say, we were honored when we received your application. Your program is one of the best known in the world -- so refined, professional and a joy to read -- this really set the standard to be followed by fellow award masters. The gap between your program and the second best in the world is still very wide -- personal opinion. :-) We extend our sincerest congratulations to you for the professionalism of your website and awards program. Welcome and best regards," -- Richard A. Berends, on bee-half of the GTA Panel of Evaluators, German Top Awards International, Simmerath, Germany

"Dear Míc, We are pleased to present your site, The Beeline, with the Ultraweb Level 2 Award. Of the thousands of sites we have visited over the years, few of them have proven to be as purposeful and useful as yours. The denizens in your region are not the only beneficiaries of your hard work. All netizens can learn something and enjoy frequent visits to your website. We will return often. Congratulations!" -- Ann Bevans and Dave Selig, Ultraweb Award Program, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA

"Hi Míc, Congratulations! The Beeline has been selected to receive the TMC Exceptional Design Award. (Rated 5.0 by Award Sites! and a World's Top Award by Website Awards.) Your site has been thoroughly evaluated by our judges and we are happy to present you with our silver award. Your site has an eye-pleasing design, a professional layout, good navigation, a pleasant color scheme, and interesting content. (Final score: 95.45/100.)" -- Monika Carter, webmistress, TMC Designs, Colonial Heights, Virginia, USA

"Míc... Your site was reviewed by three of our judges and evaluated based on the standardized scoring highlighted in our program. After averaging the three totals, The Beeline scored 90 points -- within the criteria established for the Red Stag Award in Silver. Congratulations! Your site represents an extraordinary resource for the community you have created. Functionality is outstanding and we particularly appreciate its simple and optional navigation, particularly given the sheer volume of available content. But it is the depth and quality of content that is king here. We found ourselves immersed... as usual! The site is always a pleasure to visit and certain to bring us back again... thank you for inviting us! Our best regards," -- Jim Docherty and The Red Stag Awards Team, Wilton, Connecticut, USA

"The following review is provided by PeaceWork Certified Sites: 'The Beeline is one of only eight websites ever to achieve the PeaceWork Certified Sites' Diamond Certification. It is an absolutely amazing website! This site could well serve as the model for all other websites. It is informative, educational and entertaining. We could write a book about what's there, but instead we'll mark this as our number one MUST-VISIT site!' My visit to this website was very inspirational. The Beeline serves as a model for budding webmasters and accomplished webmasters alike. It has an amazing amount of information available in a virtual plethora of subjects and presented in an attractive and easily-navigated scheme that leaves me wondering where any one person could find the time to manage it. But one person did. Míc (pronounced Mike) Miller, one of the award community's leading citizens, is the creator, developer, and manager of this incredible website. You'll find Míc at the AS! Forum quite often, lending a word or two of wisdom and lending us all a taste of his excellent humor. Thank you, Míc, for creating and maintaining this landmark website... Bee Well!" -- Debbie Frey, NovaSite! review editor, NetNacs!, Port Jervis, New York, USA

"Hello Míc, I have reviewed your site, The Beeline, in accordance with the criteria for this program. I was very much impressed with the quality of your site. Your site received the points required to receive a Premier Gold Ozz Award and the Hall of Excellence badge. The Hall of Excellence Award is symbolic of enduring outstanding achievement. Its centerpiece is intended to depict the philosophical approach of the award program, that is the three qualities of Honor, Kindness, and Sincerity, and pointing to the recipient of this award. Míc, I spent over 45 minutes doing this evaluation as there is so much to look at and in some areas of your site I was moved away from the evaluation process (only for a short while) by the wealth of information your site provides, your page on 'supporting causes' was a case in point. It was a pleasure to review and the quality is self evident. Congratulations and well done." -- Paul Gallagher, webmaster, Treasure Trove - The Land Down Under - Australia, Mareeba, Queensland, Australia [Beekeeper's note: The Beeline also received the Ozz Approved Web Site badge (shown) with the following laudation from Paul: "When people see this badge on your site I want them to know that the site that has achieved this badge is a friendly place, a place where you feel welcome as an equal, a place of quality, in honor, kindness, and sincerity, no matter what your standing in life."]

"Hello Míc Miller, Our evaluators have now reviewed your Web page, The Beeline, and we would like to congratulate you by presenting the DWD Award to you. The Beeline is overall excellent, original in graphics and design. Quality content presented with excellency is interesting, informative and entertaining. Navigation is easy, load time quick. A Web page which truly is a credit to the Internet community. Once again, congratulations on a job well done. Sincerely," -- Bitten Jönsson, webmistress, DWD Design, Aars, Denmark

"Dear Míc, We reviewed your website and it is with great pleasure that we present to you our Top Site Award. This award is rated one of the World's Top Awards and is only given to sites that show superior excellence in design and content. It has never been easier to give out our Top Site Award since we knew your site very well. You own one of the most content rich sites on the Internet. The navigation is exceptionally easy and your graphics are selected well for your site. Additionally, the design and layout shows your dedication to present the content in a way that does not overwhelm visitors with unnecessary elements. All elements on your site add to the overall excellent presentation of this wealth of information. Congratulations on your great work." -- Rainer Klein, webmaster, Webmaster Central, Muelheim, Germany

"Dear Míc, Your site is one of three winners of the Absolut 2001 Award. Explanation: It is an excellent, massive site whose organization consistently follows basic theme. It is stylistically balanced, informative, interesting and very imaginative. The site substructures are organized as a beehive forming the commune -- the whole -- the structure. Even the smallest details of the site are carefully designed and well incorporated into the whole. When considered in aesthetic terms, this is an epic site and its counterpart in literature would be 'War and Peace' by Tolstoy. Sincerely," -- Nikola Kitanovic, webmaster, Nikola Kitanovic, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia

"Congratulations, Míc! Our evaluation panel have now completed their review of your site, The Beeline, and I am delighted to be able to award you our GNAE Awards Programme Gold Award, along with our Site of the Month Award (April, 2002) and GNAE Awards Programme Hall of Fame Award. Below are some of the panel's comments for your information. Best regards," -- Rochelle "Shells" Manson, awards manager, GNAE Awards Program, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia [Reviewers' comments: "This is the first April app I've visited, but I'm really excited about this evaluation. This must be one of the top award and resource sites on the Net." "My score is 100+ and it easily qualifies for GNAE Gold Award, Site of the Month, and I recommend induction into the GNAE Hall of Fame." "Definitely the best applying site to date." "Excellent site. It's the first time I have been as excited about the quality of the work that has been produced. Definitely SOM and Gold at least."]

"Hello Míc, Congratulations -- we have looked at your website, The Beeline, and are happy to inform you that we have decided to award it the Papillon Graphics Gold Award for Web Excellence. We were impressed by the sheer scope and range of your website and its many useful features and links crammed onto every page -- a truly excellent resource for any web designer or webmaster. It is simply but effectively laid out and the navigation was smooth and effortless. Well done, it is truly an excellent resource for the Web -- please keep up the good work. Very well done. Good luck and kind regards," -- John Moss, webmaster, Papillon Graphics - Manchester 2002, Bolton, Lancashire, England

"Dear Mic, Your website, The Beeline, has earned the Nem5 Web Maggic Silver Award. BUT, that's not all. I have to tell you that you have one of those sites a person could get lost in for days and still not find all that it has to offer. It is not only packed with educational information, but lots of fun as well. So, it is with great pleasure that I get to inform you that your site has also earned the Nem5 Web Maggic Resource Award. Your hard work and dedication to bettering the Web is a priceless gift that I can only say thank you for. And I do thank you from the whole staff of Nem5 for giving us the opportunity to review such an amazing and wonderful site. Once again, congratulations and thank you for the opportunity of judging your site. I truly enjoyed it." -- Maggi Norris, webmistress, Nem5 Web Maggic Awards, Hobbs, New Mexico, USA

"Dear Míc, It is with great pleasure that I write to you today. Your site was chosen as the Best Resource Site of 2001 by this year's annual staff at Nem5 Awards Program. Your site is a shining example of the best resources to be found online. The amount of work and time you have put into your site is amazing. Thank you so much for your participation in our program this year. You really earned this one with a lot of hard work and dedication. I am very, very happy to have your site take this award. Thank you so much once again for the honor and the pleasure of getting to review your site this year and for allowing us to add you to our winners' list." -- Maggi Norris, webmistress, Nem5 Web Maggic Awards, Hobbs, New Mexico, USA

"Hello Míc, Thank you for taking me on a journey to your website, The Beeline. My friend, the Pearl Diver, and I really enjoyed our trip! I am pleased to present you with a token of our esteem, an Akoya White Pearl Award. This is a high honor here in our kingdom under the sea. This award honors excellence in design, graphic elements and content. Your site goes above and beyond the requirements to win this award. The amount of wonderful information on your site was un-bee-lieveable to a little sea horse like me. I saw sights that I would never have seen before, since I stay under water! Again, congratulations. We consider The Beeline to be a true 'Gem of the Internet'." -- Lynn Pilewski, webmistress, Hidden Pearls, Orlando, Florida, USA

"Hi Míc, I have reviewed your Web site and I would like to congratulate you on your great Internet presentation with its extensive, informative, and rich content. The graphics are original, the content entertaining and easy to access. You have done a very good work and produced a high-standard Web site with creativity and professionalism. A surprising site with pleasing design and a breathtaking variety of content. I would be glad if you would accept my Moonlight-Award Top-Info in Gold as a little sign of appreciation on your efforts. Kindest regards," -- Sylvia "Shadow" Polkowski, webmistress, Shadow's Moonlight Awards, Werne, Germany

"Hello Míc, The team of the DandieStar Awards is glad to present you the DandieStar *** Top Info Award in honour of your really great job -- congratulations! The Beeline, with a lot of interesting and useful information, is a model example for the idea of the DandiStar *** Top Info Award. Once again, congratulations -- it was a great pleasure for us being allowed to visit and evaluate The Beeline." -- Manfred Rosenbaum, webmaster and on bee-half of the DandieStar Jury-Team, DandieOnline - Dandie Dinmont Terriers, Wuppertal, Germany

"It is my pleasure to award your site, The Beeline, with the 42nd Street Gold Award. Your site is incredible. I have visited numerous times, and still haven't seen all of it. The Gold Bars were a wonderful idea! I only found 6 or 7 of them, but I'll be back. I know there has to be more!" -- Nicole "Nikki" Savage, webmistress, 42nd Street Awards, Federal Way, Washington, USA

"The Beeline bietet viel informative Inhalte, ein Awardprogramm, eine übersichtliche Navigation, ein gut gelungenes Design und noch eine Masse mehr. Was ich besonders gut fand ist die Möglichkeit, auf der Startseite zwischen verschiedenen Menüs wechseln zu können (z. B. Frames-Menü, TV-Menü...). Die Seite ist sowieso sehr übersichtlich aufgebaut und man findet sich gut zurecht. Besonders hervorzuheben ist auch das Beehive Awardprogramm, das ohne Zweifel eines der besten der Welt ist. Es ist fast schon eine eigene Homepage. Die ganze Homepage ist an Bienen orientiert, besonders die Grafiken im Waben-Look, aber teilweise auch das Schriftbild. (Thank you for bee-ing here.) Auf jeden Fall mal vorbeisurfen." -- Maximilian Speicher, webmaster, DJ MaxS Awards, Kirchen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany [Crude translation: "The Beeline offers lots of informative content, an award program, clear navigation, design, and much more that is well done. What I especially found good is the possibility to, on the start page, choose between different menus (e.g. Frames menu, TV menu...). The page is structured very clearly and one gets around well. Particularly to emphasize is also the Beehive Award Program, which is without a doubt one the best in the world. It is almost a characteristic homepage. The whole homepage is bees oriented, particularly the diagrams in the honeycomb-look, but partly also the typeface. (Thank you for bee-ing here.) In any case times vorbeisurfen."]

"Hi Míc! Congratulations! Our judges have finished evaluating your site and we are pleased to inform you that you have won the AWA Silver. Sincerely," -- Tobias Strandh, AljapaCo Webb Awards, Alingsås, Sweden [Review comments: "This is without a doubt the most content-packed site that we have ever visited. Over 2800 pages and still counting. Míc Miller has framed all this with 'bee-utiful' and original graphics. Always seems to 'bee' thinking of his visitors' best, he has made several interfaces and different layouts. A definite bookmark, how else can you enjoy all of this lovely site?!"]

"Dear Michael Miller, Congratulations! You have won the Shadow Poetry Silver Dragonfly Award for your site. We are so happy to honor web designers like yourself who have put many hours of hard work and determination into their sites. They are the ones that make the Internet a better place to surf with pleasing content and design. Again, congratulations on winning a Shadow Peotry Award." -- James and Marie Summers, Shadow Poetry, Liberty, Missouri, USA

"Dear Míc, Congratulations! It gives me great pleasure to announce your website, The Beeline, has won the BTDesign Best Site Award! The motivation is: The Beeline is not only graphically excellent and a very original idea, it is a reference point for all Web surfers, providing all kinds of information in a user-friendly way. Their award program is one of the most wanted around and well worth its success. ...again, congratulations and keep up with your important work! Sincerely," -- Barbara Tampieri, webmistress, BTDesign Awards, Faenza, Italy

"Congratulations! Your site has been evaluated for the Silver Award from ezetips.com for an excellent Web site contributing to the South Central Indiana community. Please accept this award... Regards," -- Peter Tang, webmaster, ezetips.com, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada

"Hi Míc, After reviewing your excellent site, we decided to qualify The Beeline with our Geetha's Exceptional Design Award. Your site has excellent and unique design with various menu styles, original graphics, very easy to navigate, well, organized and very useful content. Regards," -- Geetha Thirunakkarasu, webmistress, Geetha's Web Design Awards, Rogers, Arkansas, USA

"Greetings Sir Míc! It was indeed my honor to have been your escort through the labyrinth of passageways behind the Blacksmith Shoppe in Awardsville, and now it is my great honor to bestow upon your personage the deserved title Master Wizard of Awards! Congratulations! I would pat you on the back, but I did that once before with a winner and the poor fellow is still in a cast. Solitaire says I should just present the award and not harm the winners. I will follow M'Lady's instructions. So, please accept the enclosed award certifying your accomplishment. It comes with hearty congratulations (but no back patting) from myself, Irwin (the old wizard), and the Awardsville Staff. As humans are prone to errors (something dragons, of course, are not *smile!*) I would advise you to check the enclosed award for spelling mistakes and to check the inscription on the wall at Awardsville denoting your achievement. Was there anything else? Oh yes, you'll probably want to know your final score... it was 100 points, or a perfect score! Humans put such importance on numbers. Silly creatures! Once again, Sir, my pleasure! For the Awardsville Staff, Aganon (the dragon)" -- Ellen Wilson, webmistress, Awardsville, Bellevue, Nebraska, USA [Received later: "Greetings Sir Míc! It has been declared by the Awardsville Judges that any award program earning 100 points (a perfect score) is hereby officially designated the title Master Wizard of Awards. This will give even those earning wizards something to shoot for! There will be very, very few of these awards given. Yours may 'bee' the only one. Rather than create a separate listing, your listing will be with the Wizards group with the additional notation of Master Wizard. We hope this honor pleases you."]

"Hi Míc, I must admit that I was impressed with the sheer level and variety of content displayed in the site. I always applaud good content in the LTW Awards, and this, along with your above-average site design -- which is definitely more than adequate for a site of your type -- has qualified you for an LTW Site Sensation Silver Award! Congratulations on your achievement. I wish you and your site the best for the future. Cheers," -- Luke Wright, webmaster, LTW Site Sensation Awards, Sydney, Australia