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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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Here's something I've been fiddling with:
www.planetnintendo.co.uk/specialrescomp.html
My theory is, if it ain't broke, why fix it? This is less radical then other designs. Still needs honing though I think.
www.planetnintendo.co.uk/specialrescomp.html
My theory is, if it ain't broke, why fix it? This is less radical then other designs. Still needs honing though I think.
Yeah, I like that design, especially the Freeola background: It's coming together nicely. It could benefit from some of the boxes seen in the original design to compliment the new system. But overall, it's a very strong design with a nice new side bar. :)
I didnt like the other idea, 'twas a bit boring, so i changed it, made it a bit more lively. I still need to add some more bits to it, but you get the idea...:
www.hostultra.com/~phatboy/SpecialReserve/Index2.htm
www.hostultra.com/~phatboy/SpecialReserve/Index2.htm
Indeed.
He's ripped off my kill-a-puppy idea!
Heh
Maybe a less serious/ truthful entry:
http://www.hostultra.com/~Sam41/filename.html
http://www.hostultra.com/~Sam41/filename.html
God wrote:
> Don't worry too much about browser compatability thats my job. I am
> the master at making things work in NS4 on the mac (its a mission
> trust me) as I have done it for 3 years.
Heheheh. I had the same arduous task for 2 years. Then gave up and moved to IE. Now I laugh at layers and drop ice cubes down the vest of the NS DOM...
And if theres some javascript
> that just won't work we can browser detect and just give the nice
> version to the 94% of ppl using IE on a PC.
Mexactly.
> Don't worry too much about browser compatability thats my job. I am
> the master at making things work in NS4 on the mac (its a mission
> trust me) as I have done it for 3 years.
Heheheh. I had the same arduous task for 2 years. Then gave up and moved to IE. Now I laugh at layers and drop ice cubes down the vest of the NS DOM...
And if theres some javascript
> that just won't work we can browser detect and just give the nice
> version to the 94% of ppl using IE on a PC.
Mexactly.
Don't worry too much about browser compatability thats my job. I am the master at making things work in NS4 on the mac (its a mission trust me) as I have done it for 3 years. And if theres some javascript that just won't work we can browser detect and just give the nice version to the 94% of ppl using IE on a PC.
http://www.phi11ip.staghosting.com/freeola/1/
Finished the menu on the left now.
It's all pretty pretty.
I've just gotta sort out the main bit now...
Finished the menu on the left now.
It's all pretty pretty.
I've just gotta sort out the main bit now...
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