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"EXTRA EXTRA GAMEADAY PRIZE - FEBRUARY BANNERS"

Blimey, that was a task and a half. Well done to all who entered, the standard of banners has gone up significantly since the last competition, so I look forward to the next one (as long as I don't have to judge it).

It was a tough decision to pick winning entries, but we narrowed it down to 3. You'll notice that the winning banners are quite simple and effective, fancy stuff is all well and good but when you've only got 15k to play with, you need to sacrifice it sometimes. Okay, enough waffle, the winners are...

Funkygamer for his Comanche Banner
Gabbo for his GetDotted Banner (fifth from top)
Natbuc for his Monsters Inc Banner (blue)

You all win the DVD of your choice from our database, up to the value of £25 - congratulations! Special mention must got to all the people who submitted loads and loads of banners and didn't win, sorry about that! And I apologise for ending the competition slightly early, I wanted to get it finished for the weekend for you.

Cheers
Ali

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Completed Banners:

Funky Gamer - Click here
Er-no - Click here
Edgy - Click here
Gabbo - Click here
Natbuc - 1, 2 and 3
Rainier Wolfcastle - Click here
Lodge (or Darkness_2k, one of you) - Click here
Joe Dark - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24
(May need www inserted into link)
PinkPig - Click here
cooldogs - Click here
1/2pint - Click here
messiah_4_ever - Click here
chris_uk - Click here
Rickoss - Click Here
Darkness_2k - Click here
Shaneo - 1 and 2
Doughnut Monster - Click here
No.2 - Click here
Oxide - 1, 2
dFox - Click here
Agent Smith - 1 and 2
cookie monster - 1 and 2
TomUK - Click here
Rakuga - Click here
Mr. Nice Guy - Your page didn't work, sorry
Dr. Duck - Click here
Force of Nature - Your page didn't work, sorry
Weird Kid - Click here
Dav1d - 1, 2

Some Geocities links may need a www inserted to make them work, it's an eternal mystery to me. I'm judging this as we speak.



Ali - please organise this.

1 banner used = FAD prize
2 banners used = GAD prize

Give url's and Ali will make them into hyperlinks in this thread.

Rule 1

Banners must be commercially inspired for the purpose of generating income and profit to Special Reserve or Freeola. i.e. Please do not design banners for UKcheats, Gameaday, Winacar etc. Design banners for SR Membership, Maxx, products we sell, Get Dotted, Freeola, Ram, PC parts - anything which is a source of income to us.

Rule 2

Banners must be under 15k, Indexed gif, 468 x 60 pixels. You can submit RGB gifs but better if they are "indexed" as they will apparently come up smaller.

Thanks in advance. Good Luck.

Natbuc wrote:
> RìÇkø§$ wrote:
> Hope you like this banner, sadly
> can't be used in the compo 'cos it's too big,
> but it's funny
> :D:

http://www.geocities.com/rickoss_web/gcps2nxboxbanner.gif


its
> good.....but....er.....its not funny....

Jus' 'cos you don't have a sense of humour :-P Anyway, i've made a smaller one! Here it is:

http://www.geocities.com/rickoss_web/gcps2nxboxbanner2.gif

RìÇkø§$ wrote:
> Hope you like this banner, sadly can't be used in the compo 'cos it's too big,
> but it's funny :D:

http://www.geocities.com/rickoss_web/gcps2nxboxbanner.gif


its good.....but....er.....its not funny....

Hope you like this banner, sadly can't be used in the compo 'cos it's too big, but it's funny :D:

http://www.geocities.com/rickoss_web/gcps2nxboxbanner.gif

Here are all my banners on one page so far....

http://www.geocities.com/darkedgy/index.html

When I make more, I'll add them to that page and repost the link....

Any comments welcome....

No problem. That banner is good, piece of advice though, slow the scenes down. You want to make it so people don't have to rush to read the text. Also, you won't your final scene with the "Click Here" text to last a lot longer than the rest of the others. If you want to know how long the scenes should last, either look at SR's or just use your own judgement.

Thanks gabbo

http://www.geocities.com/joedarkuk/simpban.gif

A Simpsons banner

http://www.addesigner.com/users/cheatser.at.hotmail.com.gif

There ya go.

I put it there 'cos I was having trouble putting it onto my geocities site

how do i upload Fireworks banners onto Geocities???

I've added even more to my page...

www.halfpintsbanners.0catch.com/banners.html

Sorry if its a bit slow loading; shouldn't take more than half a minute though...

Here are my 3 pages so far:

http://www.geocities.com/rickoss_web/sr_banners.html

http://www.geocities.com/rickoss_web/sr_banners2.html

http://www.geocities.com/rickoss_web/sr_banners3.html

Reason i'm using 3 pages? Slow loading times annoy people :-D