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Amusement: Sites that help make your life online a lot more fun: games, humor, memes, plus all the stuff that is too weird for words.
Art: From traditional photography to untraditional performances, this category focuses on web-based collections of life, society and culture.
Blog: Sites that revolutionize the power of publishing by providing regularly updated content of a personal or professional nature.
Business: For-Profit: Sites devoted to the promotional needs, functions and services of for-profit businesses.
Business: Green/Non-Profit: Sites devoted to the promotional needs, functions and services of green and non-profit businesses.
CSS: This category showcases sites that push the boundaries of CSS coding technology, bringing together top-notch design and content with standards compliant and accessible code.
Classic: While the SXSW Web Awards focus on the best new internet destinations, this category is devoted to sites that launched before January 1, 2005.
Community/Wiki: Sites that have quickly developed an extraordinarily active multi-user community and an exceptional following of users who assist with content development.
Educational Resource: From elementary school learning to advanced technology-related tips, these are sites that help you learn.
Experimental: These are cutting-edge and trend-setting destinations that are pushing the envelope and challenging our perceptions of the web.
Film/TV: Sites related to actors, television, films and the film industry, as well as destinations that offer streaming video content.
Flash: Animated cartoons as well as other intriguing content that is built using the popular Macromedia application known as Flash.
Music: Sites related to musicians, bands, and the music industry, as well online radio and other destinations that offer streaming audio content.
Personal Portfolio: The portfolios, pet projects and personal collections of individuals who are displaying their work online.
Student: This category is devoted exclusively to the student web designers who are refreshing this industry with new talent and new ideas.
Technical Achievement: These are the sites that are re-inventing and re-defining the technical parameters of our online experience.
People's Choice: The online public's favorite finalist site from the competition. Voting begins when the finalists are revealed in late January.
Best of Show: The judges favorite finalist website from the competition.
