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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.

www.geocities.com/rickoss_web/gamecube.gif

Hey TomUK...how did u upload ur banners to geocities? I can't seem to get them onto pagebuildert.

Sounds like a great chance to win a GAD prize!

Can we use Photoshop please?

RìÇkø§$ wrote:
> Darkness_2K wrote:
> What program are you using
> RìÇkø§$?

Trial of fireworks 4

In that case, the way to get the file size down is:

call up the optimise box: fiddle around with the options until the quality looks OK, and the file size is small enough!

Hope this helps.

Right. I've started making one and for some REALLY strange reason, the ending is messed up and I'm, along with other people, are unable to figure out what's wrong with it.

www.viewandplay.co.uk/sr.htm

So, just ignore the ending where it says

"The Console That's Hip To Be....."

That is really annoying me.

Weird Kid wrote:
> Try this, i tried it and it gets them quite a bit smaller, but the quality is
> lost a bit.
http://www.bannermakerpro.com/gifcruncher.html

Browser-banner makers always suck, because they're made from a few lines of script/code. It's much more professional to get a corporate piece of software like Fireworks, as I understand you are downloading the trial version of :p I'm going to try and make a little movie later, but I hear it's quite difficult. Any advance on that?

Darkness_2K wrote:
> What program are you using RìÇkø§$?

Trial of fireworks 4

Try this, i tried it and it gets them quite a bit smaller, but the quality is lost a bit.
http://www.bannermakerpro.com/gifcruncher.html

Can it be a bit larger than 15k? Like 20k? Because I can't make a banner any smaller than 19.7k

There are too many limitations.

How do you get your banners under 15k? Is there a compression program I don't know about?

when does this competition end?