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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.

Heh, I'll be the big cheese who sits on a Lay-z boy chair all day just pointing and giving orders. :)

Gabbo wrote:
> I especially like the UT one.

Thanks for that, I tried animating it with some cool fadey stuff, but it came out at 25k, so I left it alone ;)

Everybody is getting so much practice at building banners, what say we all chip in and start a banner creation company? ukbanners.com?? ;)

Good stuff funkygamer. All of them banners are quality. I especially like the UT one.

I just re-jigged a few of my first banners (ie, changed some prices, damn that GBA price drop!), plus added some new ones... here to go http://www.funkygamer.com/banners.htm

Im just doing a Halo one now, I hope I make it so its not over 15k

Gabbo wrote:
> RìÇkø§$ wrote:
> Gabbo, those banners are just
> gettin' better, i think you might win.

I don't know, there is some pretty
> good competition out there. Thanks for the vote of confidence. I really like
> this one :

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

Thanks mate, two more Graphics cards banners, in different colours, oooh :-D:

http://www.geocities.com/rickoss_web/graphicscardsbanner4.gif

and

http://www.geocities.com/rickoss_web/graphicscardsbanner3.gif

RìÇkø§$ wrote:
> Nice banners Natbuc, but the X-Box link aint workin' :-\

thanks i'll try and sort it out.

RìÇkø§$ wrote:
> Gabbo, those banners are just gettin' better, i think you might win.

I don't know, there is some pretty good competition out there. Thanks for the vote of confidence. I really like this one :

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

Ta AJ ;-)

Gabbo, those banners are just gettin' better, i think you might win ;-)

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

and

http://www.geocities.com/rickoss_web/graphicscardsbanner2.gif

Are my two UKgraphicscards Banners, hope you like.