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Hi there people, we've finally picked a winner, sorry about the wait. The entries were certainly interesting... but were generally of a good quality, although I don't think some of you got the strict rules of design we have to follow! For example, no pictures of puppies!
Anyway, I decided to award Hercules the main £50 prize for his nicely designed Freeola homepage - the watery effects were quite lovely and the nice big globe has some good impact. It kept the important messages strong down the centre, and had plenty of good features. Well done Herc.
http://www.geocities.com/srcaw/freeolahp3.jpg
And for sheer persistent effort, we'll award Rickoss a £25 GAD for his multitude of entries. They were mostly kept simple, but had a few nice touches, particularly the blue bar rollover on the Freeola navigation. Nice. Scroll down and you can check out his many entries.
Another day, another Extra GAD over and done with (late, as usual). Hopefully the next one will be fun, and bring out the competitive edge in you... more details coming soon.
Cheers
Ali
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Hello my little monkey followers, glad to see you again. Those of you that have already received your gorgeous little magazine through the post will already know we've started another Extra Gameaday competition, but for those of you whose doormats remain mag-free, let me fill you in.
This time, we want you to design a new homepage for our Freeola.com website. If you're unsure what Freeola.com offers, check it out first before you start your design. Freeola is our ISP (internet service provider) and lets people access the internet, as well as offering great deals like Unlimited webspace and unlimited e-mail. It's tricky getting the right balance between a cool, professional-looking site and shouting out our great offers without looking tacky (ask Darkus) so you've got quite a task on your hands. You'll need to mention all the great benefits for joining Freeola, as well as including details on Freeola Broadband, Freeola Dial-Up and GetDotted domain names (technically part of Freeola). So there it is - a proper task for you. It's quite difficult and we couldn't be bothered to do it, so we thought we'd get you folks to do it for us. :)
You've got until midnight on Sunday August the 10th (I neglected to mention that in the club magazine) and you can e-mail your entries to the normal gameaday/competitions e-mail addy. Send in JPGs or other graphical files, code your own website (posting the link in this thread) or post your entries to: Special Reserve Freeola Homepage competition, Internet Department, 2 South Block, The Maltings, Sawbridgeworth, Herts, CM21 9JX. It's all good, baby.
As usual, the best entry we receive will win the game of their choice, up to the value of £50. Runners-up prizes may be awarded, depending on how generous we're feeling. The winning design may eventually be stolen and used by us, but by entering this competition you are of course giving us the right to use your ideas as we see fit, a bit like that Limp Bizkit fiasco where they stole all those songs, only without a big fat 30 yr old in a backwards red cap. You'll probably see the winning design in the next mag, if I'm feeling frisky.
Do our bidding, be off with you!
Anyway, I decided to award Hercules the main £50 prize for his nicely designed Freeola homepage - the watery effects were quite lovely and the nice big globe has some good impact. It kept the important messages strong down the centre, and had plenty of good features. Well done Herc.
http://www.geocities.com/srcaw/freeolahp3.jpg
And for sheer persistent effort, we'll award Rickoss a £25 GAD for his multitude of entries. They were mostly kept simple, but had a few nice touches, particularly the blue bar rollover on the Freeola navigation. Nice. Scroll down and you can check out his many entries.
Another day, another Extra GAD over and done with (late, as usual). Hopefully the next one will be fun, and bring out the competitive edge in you... more details coming soon.
Cheers
Ali
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Hello my little monkey followers, glad to see you again. Those of you that have already received your gorgeous little magazine through the post will already know we've started another Extra Gameaday competition, but for those of you whose doormats remain mag-free, let me fill you in.
This time, we want you to design a new homepage for our Freeola.com website. If you're unsure what Freeola.com offers, check it out first before you start your design. Freeola is our ISP (internet service provider) and lets people access the internet, as well as offering great deals like Unlimited webspace and unlimited e-mail. It's tricky getting the right balance between a cool, professional-looking site and shouting out our great offers without looking tacky (ask Darkus) so you've got quite a task on your hands. You'll need to mention all the great benefits for joining Freeola, as well as including details on Freeola Broadband, Freeola Dial-Up and GetDotted domain names (technically part of Freeola). So there it is - a proper task for you. It's quite difficult and we couldn't be bothered to do it, so we thought we'd get you folks to do it for us. :)
You've got until midnight on Sunday August the 10th (I neglected to mention that in the club magazine) and you can e-mail your entries to the normal gameaday/competitions e-mail addy. Send in JPGs or other graphical files, code your own website (posting the link in this thread) or post your entries to: Special Reserve Freeola Homepage competition, Internet Department, 2 South Block, The Maltings, Sawbridgeworth, Herts, CM21 9JX. It's all good, baby.
As usual, the best entry we receive will win the game of their choice, up to the value of £50. Runners-up prizes may be awarded, depending on how generous we're feeling. The winning design may eventually be stolen and used by us, but by entering this competition you are of course giving us the right to use your ideas as we see fit, a bit like that Limp Bizkit fiasco where they stole all those songs, only without a big fat 30 yr old in a backwards red cap. You'll probably see the winning design in the next mag, if I'm feeling frisky.
Do our bidding, be off with you!
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Rickoss, you need to sort your logos out. Try aligning them to the left instead of the center.They're all out of line for me.
Sorry, my GRAMMAR isn't obviously my strong point, cal me a hypocrit! Things like spaces in between commas and full stops and stuff. It hasn't effected it in the past because they have either been submitted anyway or they have been slightly altered before hand if it is a worthy review, which they usually are, just saves people like me that job. Thanks
Like WatchTower's review.
The name of the game needs to be written within the review, it is the only way I will see it. Most of you mention it in there somewhere so don't worry, but I sometimes find myself reading a good review but am unable to put it forward because I don't know what it's about! Thanks again, sorry for any confusion.
But arent the reviews automatically put onto the page for the game?
Like, to write a review for a game... you go on the page with the game on and then submit a review for that game.
:S
Like, to write a review for a game... you go on the page with the game on and then submit a review for that game.
:S
Oh and to Snuggly or Darkus or whoever...
If we must have that blue nav bar on the freeola design, err... any chance we could have the code for it?
Like, just that on its own...
And stuff, yeah.
If we must have that blue nav bar on the freeola design, err... any chance we could have the code for it?
Like, just that on its own...
And stuff, yeah.
I only get the actual reviews written, not the page they were written for, and I get them all bundled together. I only know the name because like I said, it is often written in there somewhere.
I get you, good job I write the name of the game in my reviews then. And I have good spelling, grammar, punctuation... or something.
Maybe thats why I won recently.
Muahahaaaa...
Maybe thats why I won recently.
Muahahaaaa...
Hercules! wrote:
> If we must have that blue nav bar on the freeola design, err... any
> chance we could have the code for it?
Just view the source and take it.
I'll get a basic template uploaded in a while anyway. Just the clue bars and nothing else.
> If we must have that blue nav bar on the freeola design, err... any
> chance we could have the code for it?
Just view the source and take it.
I'll get a basic template uploaded in a while anyway. Just the clue bars and nothing else.
The punctuation doesn't have to be perfect obviously. Like I said, Just spaces between commas and stuff. I have to go through alot of these so it helps. Hope that's all cleared up now, remember the name is the most important thing. Thanks
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