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"THE MAD BANNER CHALLENGE IS OVER - THE WINNERS ARE..."

Okay, so the mad banner challenge is over. I think big respect needs to go out to everyone who managed to create decent banners and keep them under 15k! Anyway the winning banners that we have decided to put up on the site are:


UKCheats Banner - ("Whipped by Wario...") - By Armitage Shanks
http://www.fuji-image-service.fsnet.co.uk/ukcheats/mariocheats/15kad.gif

Maxx PC Banner - ("Loading...") - By Turbonutter
http://www.imagics.f2s.com/maxx.gif

GB Advance Banner - ("GB Advance + hands...") - By Er-no
http://www.er-no.fsnet.co.uk/banner1.gif

Notables Election Banner - ("Who will be the sixth notable...") - By Er-no
http://www.er-no.fsnet.co.uk/banner2.gif


These banners have been put up on the site to see how well they do. All of the clicks are monitored by our admin system which can tell us who clicked on it, so don't even think about clicking your own banner hundreds of times!
Also we need these banners to be genuinely successful to make this a proper marketing exercise, as sometimes the banners can look amazing but it doesn't mean anyone will click on them... (trust me on this one..!)

Any of the above banners that reach 0.5% click through in the first week will win a Filmaday prize, and if both of Er-no's banners reach over 0.5% than he can claim a Gameaday prize.

Anyway, Thanks and well done to everyone who took part.

Cheers.


Mark.
("The Special Reserve banner & design boy....")

Monkey_With_Attitude wrote:
> I got Fireworks,full thing, but when i try to save it as a jpg file
> it just goes as a fireworks file!

Thats because you are not exporting it as an 'animated gif' that is all you need to do!

Monkey_With_Attitude wrote:
> I got Fireworks,full thing, but when i try to save it as a jpg file
> it just goes as a fireworks file!


Dont save it as a .jpg. It can ruin the colours. JPEGS are mostly used for photographs. Try to save it as a gif, even before you've animated it. Also, you have to save the final animation as a .gif, .jpegs cant handle it!

er-no wrote:
> Well what you need is Fireworks, download a 30 day trial of it and
> you are sorted, that is all...

Does fireworks do the animating as well? I've got that but I never use it.

P.S Fireworks is a bit more complicated, but, more advanced than other graphics products.

I got Fireworks,full thing, but when i try to save it as a jpg file it just goes as a fireworks file!

Well what you need is Fireworks, download a 30 day trial of it and you are sorted, that is all...

..over...

oh you can find Fireworks at the Macromedia website, but this is off memory so don't blame me if it is not...

whaddya think of my banners?

Can anyone tell me what program is best to
> use for banners? I think i may give it a go.


You should be able to find freeware programs on the net that can animate the pictures. I think theres even one site which does it for you - you give your pictures, and it produces an ani .gif there and then.

The programs I used are Paint Shop Pro and Animation Shop. They came together in a bundle, but I had to 'pay' for them. (they're on cd)

If you need anymore help after you managed to find yourself an animator and/or a graphics design product (such as PSP) just give us a post. Im going away for 10 days as I said, but er-no and turbonutter may be here to help you.

NOTABLE:

www.er-no.fsnet.co.uk/banner3.gif

GBA:

www.er-no.fsnet.co.uk/banner4.gif

Hmmmmmmmm thats a good one Swish! Looks a bit professional but I take it you are. hehe

Can anyone tell me what program is best to use for banners? I think i may give it a go.

Cheers

Wah-hey! My feeble attempt is finally up!
You can find it at:
http://www.geocities.com/srbanner/maxxpcs.gif

Yes, as you can tell from the name, it is to do with SR's Maxx PC's. I like the punch line!

I'm going away tomorrow for 10 days, just to let you know.

Swish

I got two more new ones... one for notables, one for GBA.

:)