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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.

GOOD NEWS! Natbuc has finally got his butt in to gear and can deliver his first set of banners :P

MAXX Computers!

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

Burnout (PS2)

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

Playstation 2 (Games, peripherals, console)

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



hope u like e'm.....more soon.

Oh, as for flash, well, if they did have flash banners they would have to use Javascript to first detect that the browser actually has flash, and only them serve a flash banner, or an animated gif if they don't have flash... This could be a major web site change for SR for all we know!

Sorry Natbuc, its just you mate!

Check out the SR banners, they all seem to be under 15k... I've never used Corel Draw, so I can't help... Could you get demo versions of Photoshop & ImageReady?

Also i want to know....why does it have to be a gif.....my dlash one is under the max size and stuff so why can't that be used. Good some one with any idea come and enlighten the situation?>

cheers but i havne't got either of those programmes.....also i got corel working but it bodges up the movie when it saves it as a gif and also they are about 46kb in size.....now is it me or are the requirements for this contest a bit harsh?

Natbuc wrote:
> I@M HAVING PROBS! I need 2 know how either.......make a
> movie on corel draw so that the writing dissapears on
> some frames and stuff......or create a moviee on
> another programme so i can save it as a GIF. what gives?
> any help?

If you go back far enough in this thread you should see a lengthy post from me about making banners in Adobe Photoshop and ImageReady.

I@M HAVING PROBS! I need 2 know how either.......make a movie on corel draw so that the writing dissapears on some frames and stuff......or create a moviee on another programme so i can save it as a GIF. what gives?any help?

SNUGGGGGGLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!! Help me please! I have made my ad but can't seem to apload it to a site1 i'm not even sure what the HTML code is!

How do you upload onto a webpage i'm having troubluploading the add!

I'm having loads of trouble trying to do banners....does ne1 know how to do them in corel paint coz i can do a movie but the writing stays on every frame when i want it to change on some. :P