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At 4:30pm every Thursday, we will be awarding a Gaming Award for a technical post - giving you another chance to win a free game (or a £30 Amazon voucher) each week!
Simply write up a (fairly) comprehensive guide or tutorial about how to do something technical and you will be in with a chance of winning. You can enter your submission at any time to be in with a chance of winning (not just on Thursdays).
If you submit after the deadline, then your submission will be considered in next weeks' competition.
If there are no submissions made, then the award will be donated to charity --
Have a look at the previous (technical post) submissions to get an idea of what we're looking for.
Remember, you can win any game of your choice each week - submitting a technical post is one of the many ways to do so.
Simply write up a (fairly) comprehensive guide or tutorial about how to do something technical and you will be in with a chance of winning. You can enter your submission at any time to be in with a chance of winning (not just on Thursdays).
If you submit after the deadline, then your submission will be considered in next weeks' competition.
If there are no submissions made, then the award will be donated to charity --
So get posting!!Have a look at the previous (technical post) submissions to get an idea of what we're looking for.
Remember, you can win any game of your choice each week - submitting a technical post is one of the many ways to do so.
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Yea i think you have a pretty hard job picking a winner, and while your always fair and going to make someone happy, there will also be a few who are disappointed, but then the majority of us are here for the social side of things and not to win prizes, i see it as a great bonus.
I really enjoy writing reviews and chat posts, something about it when people read them and find it useful or comment (sad i know lol)
But thanks for clearing it all up and i cant believe i have had a couple of positive comments on my tutorial, i thought it was too basic as some of you guys are pretty technical, but its good to know i can post more things like that now and hopefully contribute and help people!
I really enjoy writing reviews and chat posts, something about it when people read them and find it useful or comment (sad i know lol)
But thanks for clearing it all up and i cant believe i have had a couple of positive comments on my tutorial, i thought it was too basic as some of you guys are pretty technical, but its good to know i can post more things like that now and hopefully contribute and help people!
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motomoto wrote:
> I really like your guide Emmie, because its exactly what a lot
> of Freeola customers would probably like to do with their web
> site, but I also like PB's as its the sort of thing that I dabble
> in.
>
> Can you see how difficult it is to award GAD prizes? ;___;
So the contenders are a guide about an obsolete html tag which doesnt work in all browsers or another that provides no practical advice or solutions to the topic. Sorry pb and emmie, harsh but true unfortunately.
If you set the bar so low whats the point in anybody who can write something useful doing so? Should I spend a few hours setting up a demo/tutorial of some cool html/css/javascript feature or maybe spend 10 minutes writing a technical guide to a piece of string which is just as likely to get me some recognition.
Anyway, rather than being critical I have a suggestion that might help. How about trying to provide some structure to this? If you want to build up a resource for Freeola customers then it makes sense to try to get entries on certain topics. So each week you set a topic. This week could have been a guide on adding sound & video to your website for instance. If you want to minimise duplicates of the same topic then given several like one for web stuff and another for general pc topics. People who are desparate to win can still take part, they've got a week to learn about the topic and write something. You could even do something more elaborate like working out index to a "Freeola User Help Guide" so people have got a whole list of topics to choose from.
> I really like your guide Emmie, because its exactly what a lot
> of Freeola customers would probably like to do with their web
> site, but I also like PB's as its the sort of thing that I dabble
> in.
>
> Can you see how difficult it is to award GAD prizes? ;___;
So the contenders are a guide about an obsolete html tag which doesnt work in all browsers or another that provides no practical advice or solutions to the topic. Sorry pb and emmie, harsh but true unfortunately.
If you set the bar so low whats the point in anybody who can write something useful doing so? Should I spend a few hours setting up a demo/tutorial of some cool html/css/javascript feature or maybe spend 10 minutes writing a technical guide to a piece of string which is just as likely to get me some recognition.
Anyway, rather than being critical I have a suggestion that might help. How about trying to provide some structure to this? If you want to build up a resource for Freeola customers then it makes sense to try to get entries on certain topics. So each week you set a topic. This week could have been a guide on adding sound & video to your website for instance. If you want to minimise duplicates of the same topic then given several like one for web stuff and another for general pc topics. People who are desparate to win can still take part, they've got a week to learn about the topic and write something. You could even do something more elaborate like working out index to a "Freeola User Help Guide" so people have got a whole list of topics to choose from.
The best of the available guides gets chosen. At the moment these guides are what are available. If you want to submit something more technically advanced, you will be awarded too.
I like your idea about setting up some form of structure however, and believe the "powers that be may consider it" ;)
I like your idea about setting up some form of structure however, and believe the "powers that be may consider it" ;)
Garin,
If you believe that you can write a better tutorial then what these guys have written so far then by all means please do so, at no point have we tried to discourage you from doing so.
As you can see from this post we have been trying to get some attention to the Technical GAD prize. As Warhunt states 'The best of the available guides gets chosen.' If you believe that your tutorial or guide will be of more use to Freeola users then please post it, if you're right you will likely win a GAD.
I can assure you that a lot of consideration is going into how we can organize the tutorials provided, and how future submissions can be organized, the most appropriate way has not yet been decided, however thank you for your input.
If you believe that you can write a better tutorial then what these guys have written so far then by all means please do so, at no point have we tried to discourage you from doing so.
As you can see from this post we have been trying to get some attention to the Technical GAD prize. As Warhunt states 'The best of the available guides gets chosen.' If you believe that your tutorial or guide will be of more use to Freeola users then please post it, if you're right you will likely win a GAD.
I can assure you that a lot of consideration is going into how we can organize the tutorials provided, and how future submissions can be organized, the most appropriate way has not yet been decided, however thank you for your input.
Garin wrote:
> So the contenders are a guide about an obsolete html tag which
> doesnt work in all browsers or another that provides no practical
> advice or solutions to the topic.
Don't forget my recent submission: Simple Popup window using JavaScript that you also liked Garin ;¬) might also be in the running :¬)
With working demo!
Search Freeola Chat
> So the contenders are a guide about an obsolete html tag which
> doesnt work in all browsers or another that provides no practical
> advice or solutions to the topic.
Don't forget my recent submission: Simple Popup window using JavaScript that you also liked Garin ;¬) might also be in the running :¬)
With working demo!
Search Freeola Chat
Hmmm... wrote:
> Garin wrote:
> So the contenders are a guide about an obsolete html tag which
> doesnt work in all browsers or another that provides no
> practical
> advice or solutions to the topic.
>
> Don't forget my recent submission:
> Simple
> Popup window using JavaScript that you also liked Garin
> ;¬) might also be in the running :¬)
>
> With working demo!
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Search Freeola
> Chat
But Hmmm.. what practical use would that have? I mean no one uses pop up windows. Well, apart from Freeola, Amazon, Microsoft, Play.com and a few other really small websites that no one has heard of... ;)
> Garin wrote:
> So the contenders are a guide about an obsolete html tag which
> doesnt work in all browsers or another that provides no
> practical
> advice or solutions to the topic.
>
> Don't forget my recent submission:
> Simple
> Popup window using JavaScript that you also liked Garin
> ;¬) might also be in the running :¬)
>
> With working demo!
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Search Freeola
> Chat
But Hmmm.. what practical use would that have? I mean no one uses pop up windows. Well, apart from Freeola, Amazon, Microsoft, Play.com and a few other really small websites that no one has heard of... ;)
Ideally though, there will be a new (GAD-worthy) submission or more each week. If not, then we will look 'back to the future'.
lol Garin you always make me laugh, your like the anti-freeola. Me and pb never claim to be the great technical minds (pb is light years ahead of me!) but we have both tried to create helpful tutorials that we hope help contirbute to the forum and are useful to people who want to know about what we are writing.
I appreciate it is not the best technical post but hey i tried hard and as it was my first i hope they will get better. But if you still have a problem then like other people have said, why not write one yourself?
Thanks to everyone who read it and posted positive comments and well done to everyone who has done posts and good luck to you on winning. I think that the winners have to be chosen based on what has been submitted. The most helpful, well written and interesting topic. This is at Freeola's descretion and i never have any quarms with the winners chosen. It aint like you award a GAD for a two line topic about anything. Rant over, im off to play some golf left, so as i said, good luck to everyone!
I appreciate it is not the best technical post but hey i tried hard and as it was my first i hope they will get better. But if you still have a problem then like other people have said, why not write one yourself?
Thanks to everyone who read it and posted positive comments and well done to everyone who has done posts and good luck to you on winning. I think that the winners have to be chosen based on what has been submitted. The most helpful, well written and interesting topic. This is at Freeola's descretion and i never have any quarms with the winners chosen. It aint like you award a GAD for a two line topic about anything. Rant over, im off to play some golf left, so as i said, good luck to everyone!
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