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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.

Im gonna upload my ukphonetones one but I cant seem to log onto geocities

Youve done some done some good ones there 1/2 pint, i love your shrek one

http://www.geocities.com/rickoss_web/maxxpcsbanner2.gif

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

My new banner, by the way, if you need reminding:

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

How many banners win? And when are they chosen?

I've added some new ones...

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

Joe Dark wrote:
> Ive just made my gba one smaller

Hehe, shouldn't that one have an epilepsy warning??? Seriously though, it shouldn't be 19k with just that animation, I dont know what program you are using, but maybe you can decrease the colours that it exports the .gif file at down to 64 or 32 colours?? That should make the file size smaller, you may lose a bit of picture quality, but I suspect not too much.

Try some more experimenting... if it doesn't work, you can send me your source files and I'll have a play for you... [email protected]

Does this competition last all February?

Ive just made my gba one smaller

http://www.geocities.com/joedarkuk/gbapricecrash2.gif

Here's my latest, not the best though:

http://www.geocities.com/darkedgy/maxxpc.gif

I consider this to be my best...

http://www.geocities.com/darkedgy/128bit.gif