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"EXTRA GAMEADAY PRIZE - BANNER COMP FEB 2003"

Okay, we've had a good long look at all the banners submitted, and we've eventually picked our winners. First of all, I have to say, the difference in quality between this competition and the last one has definitely been noticeable - they're much better, so well done everybody. Anyway, the winners are...

WINNER - CONSUMER58
Quite frankly, these are blinding banners, probably better than any of us could do! At first we thought they were professionally done, then we thought they were nicked, then we thought they'd be a bajillion K, but we were proved wrong - consumer58, we salute you! Because of your blinding standard of banners, we award you TWO full games of your choice, up to the value of £50 - congratulations! The winning banners that will appear on our site are as follows:

http://images.reserve.co.uk/banners/extragad/silenthill3.gif
http://images.reserve.co.uk/banners/extragad/defjam3.jpg
http://images.reserve.co.uk/banners/extragad/casemods2.jpg
http://images.reserve.co.uk/banners/extragad/metroidprime.gif
http://images.reserve.co.uk/banners/extragad/resi.gif
http://images.reserve.co.uk/banners/extragad/primalbanner.gif
http://images.reserve.co.uk/banners/extragad/nbastreet.jpg
http://images.reserve.co.uk/banners/extragad/ukcheats.jpg
http://images.reserve.co.uk/banners/extragad/xboxcombanner.gif
http://images.reserve.co.uk/banners/extragad/zenbanner.gif
http://images.reserve.co.uk/banners/extragad/rambanner.gif

1ST RUNNER-UP - WHY?
A fine selection of banners here, lots of them, though I particularly like the simple UKclearance.com one near the end - just goes to show that sometimes one simple idea is better than cramming loads of ideas onto a small banner. You win a £25 GAD prize, congrats.

http://images.reserve.co.uk/banners/extragad/ukclearance_banner.gif

2ND RUNNER-UP - 2DASHING
Really liked these UKphonetones.com banners, kind of a new style for SR stuff but it looks cool, very fresh, funky and new. Again, very simple but effective (if a little too fast, pointer for next time!). If you can send us a slower one, we'll use that instead. We chose the banner below to win a £25 game of your choice, well done.

http://images.reserve.co.uk/banners/extragad/phone3.gif

Seriously everyone, it was hard to judge this competition because the quality was so high on all of them so the original ones had to stand out. if I could have given more prizes I would have, but I can't so you'll just have to wait til the next one.

Congrats, and see you soon!
Ali

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Woohoo - it's everyone's favourite Extra GAD prize, the Banner competition! We know you all love this one (and hell, we have a good laugh looking at some of your efforts) so we thought we'd bring it back as previous ones have been so successful.

All you have to do, is design a banner or two (or as many as you like) promoting Special Reserve goods or services. We have a few rules that need to be observed, but basically you're free to use your imagination and let your creative juices flow!

Here are a few conditions if you want to enter:

1. Your banner must not be over 15k in file size. Static or animated banners are fine. The image size for our site is 468 x 60 - banners of different sizes will not be entered. Gifs or Jpegs are okay, anything else is not.

2. If you have webspace of your own, host it there and post a link to it in this thread. For those of you who don't have webspace to stick it on, e-mail it to the usual Gameaday address and we'll host it ourselves. We'd prefer if you host it though.

3. The best banner ideas are fairly simple - try and get your message across as best you can without cramming the banner with text. If you're doing a banner for a product, try and get the USP (unique selling points) across properly. You should be able to nab pictures from our site to promote want you want, lord knows we've got plenty.

Things we'd like you to promote at the moment include UKphonetones.com, Our new range of PC sites (see left hand sidestrip) and any cool PC hardware or gadgets. Even things like free postage and Gameaday will be considered. Like I said before, you're free to promote anything you like, but don't blame us if we don't pick your banner for a £2.99 lead to win.

If we decide to use 1 of your banners, you'll win a game of your choice up to the value of £25.

If we decide to use 2 or more of your banners, you'll win a game of your choice up to the value of £50.

There aren't a set number of prizes for this one, it depends on how many decent entries we receive. Go to http://ukchatforums.reserve.co.uk/bannercomp to see some previous entries (or 'How not to win SR's Banner Competition') for some inspiration.

This competition ends at the end of February and starts.... now!

Just thought I would bring this back to the top.

15.99 still apears as 15k so I would asume that we can have them up to 15.99.

But then again, Snuggly said a maximum of 15k, he couldve meant anything over 15.0 isnt gonna be chosen.

I dunno, they see the images first and if theyre good enough and just a tiny tiny bit over 15k they might just choose it.

I dunno though.

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Update - New 'Enter The Matrix' banner - http://www.boomspeed.com/mattt/Banners.html

Taka-Q wrote:
> Taka-Q wrote:
> Does it matter if my banners are 15.99 kbor do they have to be always
> under 15 such as 14.99?
>
> Thats what I ment to type, sorry.
>
>
> www.aprb60.dsl.pipex.com/bannerindex.htm

Anyone got an answer?

Sorry just thought of something....
The DVD writer banner that SR is using is a poor quality still GIF but its still 15k. Just in case you guys didn't know, still banners will look much better with Jpeg compression....especially if they are complicated.

;p

2 more in my general section....(GBA & Zen Jukebox - any comments?)

http://www.consumer58.netfirms.com

http://www.consumer58.netfirms.com/general.htm

Think my DMC2 is my fave now....

;p

I was going for a messy writing effect there, does the one after that load for you?? It doesn't for me.....

I like the "Freeola: A child could do it" one, memo.

It made me laugh, anyway :)

Memo, I really like the top Freeola one. Nice background effect you got there.

I am using "Ulead GIF animator" to put the animations together and using its optimize feature to make them smaller, as it stands that animation is in 24 colours, 0% dither and 40% lossy but any lower colours and if I put lossy up further and the quality just goes to pot.

I have added two more, though they still follow the trend that seems to be appearing:

they are getting worse as they go down.

http://www.hostultra.com/~thehomeofrandomness/Pg5.htm