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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.

cookie monster wrote:
> *[SR]* Shaneo wrote:
> Dr. Duck wrote:
> Here are my first
>
>
> offerings:

http://huw41.tripod.com/banners/sr.html

Possibly some
> more
> in
> the future if i get any more inspiration come my way, but if
> i do put
> any more
> up, i'll tell you about it in this forum.

You
> need to make the
> text smoother some how, or up the size to maximum without
> reaching 15k, because
> they are nice banners, but look very old. I need to
> get to work on some more
> banners when I get home. I've drawn out plans for
> a wicked one for Windows XP
> and another cool one for GeForce II 64 MX
> Graphics Card. Ciao! I have to go now
> for school, laterz!

Lucky you, if
> i was going to school i would have left 43 mins before you posted that message.
937

My lucky self would have left the house a grand totalk of 140 mins previoulsy..........

*[SR]* Shaneo wrote:
> Dr. Duck wrote:
> Here are my first
>
> offerings:

http://huw41.tripod.com/banners/sr.html

Possibly some more
> in
> the future if i get any more inspiration come my way, but if i do put
> any more
> up, i'll tell you about it in this forum.

You need to make the
> text smoother some how, or up the size to maximum without reaching 15k, because
> they are nice banners, but look very old. I need to get to work on some more
> banners when I get home. I've drawn out plans for a wicked one for Windows XP
> and another cool one for GeForce II 64 MX Graphics Card. Ciao! I have to go now
> for school, laterz!

Lucky you, if i was going to school i would have left 43 mins before you posted that message.

Dr. Duck wrote:
> Here are my first
> offerings:

http://huw41.tripod.com/banners/sr.html

Possibly some more in
> the future if i get any more inspiration come my way, but if i do put any more
> up, i'll tell you about it in this forum.

You need to make the text smoother some how, or up the size to maximum without reaching 15k, because they are nice banners, but look very old. I need to get to work on some more banners when I get home. I've drawn out plans for a wicked one for Windows XP and another cool one for GeForce II 64 MX Graphics Card. Ciao! I have to go now for school, laterz!

Here are my first offerings:

http://huw41.tripod.com/banners/sr.html

Possibly some more in the future if i get any more inspiration come my way, but if i do put any more up, i'll tell you about it in this forum.

They're not bad, Rak, the first two are maybe a little dark though

Here's some of mine...

http://www.robsonherlock.clara.net/srcomp/banners.htm

Darkness_2K wrote:

AK? I never knew it
> was you! Perhaps we can now renew our rivalry!?! :D

muhuhaha, the last banner comp was quality.

Don't think I'll be able to produce as many banners as I did before but it should be fun.

Gabbo wrote:
> Here are all my banners from the previous
> competition.

http://www.geocities.com/ stef_sharratt/srbanners.html

Some
> of them are a bit dated now, some more will probably be arriving over the
> weekend :)

AK? I never knew it was you! Perhaps we can now renew our rivalry!?! :D

Here are all my banners from the previous competition.

http://www.geocities.com/ stef_sharratt/srbanners.html

Some of them are a bit dated now, some more will probably be arriving over the weekend :)

Thanks for ur comments but i noticed the sizes were to big....here are the correct ones with correct artibutes. :)

http://natbuc.0catch.com/maxxbannerfin.gif

http://natbuc.0catch.com/burnout%20banner.gif

http://natbuc.0catch.com/mgs2banner.gif

http://natbuc.0catch.com/ps2banner.gif



i'll do more soon....keep the competion flowing! oh and if u need help i should be able to help u. :P