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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.

is kb the same as k? :\

Thanks.

Depending on what program you're using it may tell you in there.

If not, locate the saved file on your Pc, right click, and select properties. it should tell you the 'size'

How can you tell how big the file is?

Right, I've corrected my Gamecube banner to say May 3rd.

Its really difficult to get the banners under 15k. I had to make quite a few of mine a bit jerky to get them under the limit.
Its a lot better though, I find it really annoying when I go to a web page and the banners take ages to load. It slows the whole page down. I suppose that's why SR want us to keep the file sizes down.

RìÇkø§$ wrote:
> http://www.geocities.com/rickoss_web/banner2.gif

Please don't mock my
> pathetic attemps, it's my first try, i don't know how to animate yet, and all i
> have is a trial of Fireworks 4 :\

its a very nice looking banner - and a lot of the successful banners are not animated. But the file size is WAY to big. 15K is the limit.

Hi,
Well i never done any thing like this but i want to at least make an attempt, is there any good programs that you could recommend to me for it ?

I got the date from the gamecube wrong! I'll have to correct that! I put may 5th, it should be may 3rd, shouldn't it?

Hey, pretty good

http://www.geocities.com/tomthorpe2001/SR-banners.html

I've added some new banners from my pathetic attempt that I made yesterday.

Hopefully some of these are a little better.