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"NEW SITE FEATURES COMP - WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT"

HERE ARE THE RESULTS OF THIS COMPETITION. I have read ALL the entries!

A lot of entries mentioned things which have generally been discussed before or are in the pipeline. They include:
User Profiles
Polls
Walkthroughs and Game Guides
Highest Scores
Who is currently posting
Splash Plastic (which is too expensive for us to do)
Online Reddies
Logos and Ringtones (see UKphonetones.com)
Genre search for games
Tell a Friend.

It just goes to show how busy we are that we are unable to get many of the above into place. But hey, expenditure is controlled by income (hint).

I liked Darkness' idea about tutorials, and Mantis made the suggestion to have a "Gamesmaster" of the forums based on competitions for high scores.

Cookie Monster wants people to be able to promote their website (we already offer this for Freeola customers) and he also suggests that we have an office pet which is monitored with a web cam (brilliant).

Monkey_with_Attitude suggests a "most played games of the week" counter on UKgames.com.

Freak of the Dark says our logo should "move or something".

Turbonutter reckons we should run Flash games and this is supported by Shaneo who says we should run SR Arena and give prizes to the best players. Turbonutter also tells us that we are lacking on PC game specification of the type you find on the back of the box and Swish extends this to a link under each title.

CDouch is a "man of a thousand ideas", mostly on the button too. He lists: Information on gaming from around the world, more mini sites like UKgt3, kids corner, celebrity visits and better organised release info including more information on unreleased games (to name but a few of his suggestions).

The rules (written by Kendozod) state "exciting and would attract a lot of visitors".

THE WINNERS ARE:
CDouch for MORE INFORMATION ON UNRELEASED GAMES.
Turbonutter for FLASH GAMES.


Many thanks for all of your participation and, for the time being, I promise not to confuse the issue by holding any other similar competition.

All the obove written by Tony (The Judge)

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Below are the original rules written by Kendozod

New Site Features.

Tony has let me loose to post a new and exciting competition!
So here goes:

This competition is for all of you to think up new features for our websites. We already have cheats, clips, demos, discussions etc but are there other features you would like us to add?

The aim here is for the feature to be low admin maintenance and low in cost (obviously!) but be exciting and would attract lots of visitors.

They can be fun, educational, business, reference, silly, cool - anything as long as they NOT sexual or violent in nature.

This competition is open for 1 month and the best ideas that we USE will win a game as part of GAMEADAY. If no ideas are used then I will pick 1 winner that I deem the best.

CLOSING DATE: 8th July 2001

So get thinking and posting. Remember, your suggestions could make a difference!

If these have been said before....sorry but I haven't had chance to read this whole topic cos I've got Welsh revision to do tonight for a GCSE exam.....

Regulars Opinion Polls: Those who have been here long enough should have a small bit of webspace allocated for things like Opinion Polls. Regulars (and notables) could fill in a form (online) which will show the question, and the choice of answers for people to tick. This will show what users are interested in and may help SR to choose what products to discount even more!

Special Reserve Desktop goodies!: SR could have downloadable themes for Microsoft Windows plus and for those who don't have that (like me) they could have the screensavers, mouse icons, desktop wallpapers downloadable seperate. This would promote the company, especially if someone in an office at work put them up on their work computers! I know that I'd like something downloadable to personalise my computer...and the stuff at Nintendo.com is rubbish! Last time I looked it was "Little Mermaid"

Members fastest times!: For ALL games past and present, there should be a section on the SR network for UKdiscussion members to send in their high scores and fastest times. This would keep people at SR as they will keep checking to see if their scores have been beaten!

That's the THIRD time you've posted that Dan!

There should be member discounts based on the number of purchases made before, like bulk buying, with the discount increasing whenever you buy stuff, like a loyalty card thing.

This suggestion may belong in more than one thread, and I will change accordingly. It even goes back to the axtra advertising Gameaday.

I recently learnt HTML through a great online tutorial. I soon mastered that, abnd decided that my brain could do with more of a challenge. So I decided to learn either PHP, c++ or Java. During my search for a tutorial I met a LOT of people who wanted to learn too. This is a great oppurtunity for SR to jump in. There is more than one thing you could do, as well:

1)When I was searching for tutorials, a lot of the sites were just small sites, with a list of useful programming links. I noticed that there were a lot of adverts on these sites, and that they had a lot of hits. I also found that the advertised sites were generating a lot of hits too. Perhaps Special reserve could advertise on here!

2)I also noticed that there were a lot of programming books available to buy. But a lot were from small companies I'd never heard of! And I wasn't going to risk buying from them. So, perhaps Special Reserve could sell some programming guides. This could be a new publicity sector 'bringing up the population into the digital age' or something. Remember it!

3)I also noticed in my search that a lot of the online 'tutorials' told you how to do one basic thing, and did not even explain how it worked. Special Reserve, with so many programmers in their midst, could put up their own tutorials. The, you could be linked from all these programming sites, as an actual useful link, not an unrelated advert. This could generate awareness from lots of people. You are well-known, so will be trusted, and if people see:
'Learn to program on www.Jimshomeprogramming.com'
or 'Learn from the Pros at Special reserve' Guess which one they'll chose! See what I mean?

SUMMARY: The best action for Special Reserve to take is to begin to make http://ukprogramming.com.
First put on a few tutorials to get started. Link to afew sites
Start to sell tutorials, more in depth ones. Link to more sites.
You become a comprehensive programming site, with tips, tutorials, maybe a special forum, and programming tool kits. You could even sell, or link to editors, and compilers!

Oh, and
4) A specific forum for programmers, where you can get help from each other. Webmaster could be putting in appearences, giving tips, as well as all those programming regulars!

This will generate a lot of traffic, and could make SR some more money too!

I think this is a great, original idea, and I think, there being a LOT of people who want to program, it will generate HUGE traffic, and if these people are really serious, it wont just be riff-raff, they'll be a useful addition to the SR community. Thanks, Darkness.

SR should create specific mailing lists, so that PC owners wouldn't have to trawl through stuff about the DC or PS. Having specific lists would allow people that only have one format to read the mail on a regular basis, instead of most people that delete the post whenever they receive it.

Hmmmm, I haven't come up with any yet.

here is a good one. Why not have a whole place where you can do an auto biography of yourself. Also other people can do a bigoraphy on you whether it be good or bad.
for instance I can do one on myself, and then do one or RBS or anyone!

-Polls
A page where you can vote for favourite games and other polls. Makes the site interactive.

-Website Tips page
Basically you tip new people to web design by giving them ideas on what to put on their site and give them basic tutorials.

-Idea Box
Just a page where people can suggest ideas for the site via a submit box or send their thoughts and why they like/hate the site. Could be good for getting a better idea of how to help your community

-Domain Win
You could run a competition where you can win a Domain name (a week, day, month I don't know). And don't ask me what you win them for.

er-no wrote:
> Monkey_With_Attitude wrote:
cool if there was a line graph with a
> diffrent coloured
> line representing each user.

I take
> brown!!

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DOH!


Hehe, red here please!!!!