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"EXTRA EXTRA GAMEADAY PRIZE (Design the Freeola error page)"

COMPETITION NOW CLOSED - WINNER TO BE ANNOUNCED SHORTLY

Another day, another great opportunity to win an EXTRA GAMEADAY prize. That's one prize of any game of your choice if you are a member of SR, or one prize of an SR Membership with Free Gift, if you are not a member.

Take a look at this page:

http://registration.freeola.net/errors/e.php?ec=404

The purpose of this page is to show people that they have gone to the wrong page.

However, there is another important role for these pages, and that's to get people to our site! Most of the people seeing this error page have never heard of us, and we want them to become SR fans.

This competition closes on August 10th and will be judged by Loki himself.

To win you must design a simple, fast-loading page with sufficient innovation to achieve a high click rate to the following sites:
UKgames.com
UKpc.net
Freeola.com
GetDotted.com

Place the url in a reply in this thread and Loki will pop in from time to time and publish your link as a hotlink in this opening thread (so that people can easily see all the page designs you have entered).

You can enter as many times as you like and there will be one winner who produces the design which impresses loki the most. If no designs impress loki at all then he will not issue a prize.

It's vital that the page loads quickly. You are more likely to win with some clever wording than you are with flashy designs. You can use one of our stock banner, like the one shown on the error page at present, or you can make your design without a banner if you like.

Good Luck.

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OK, here's a list of all the entries:

RiCk0sS:
RiCk0sS 1 | RiCk0sS 2 | RiCk0sS 3 | RiCk0sS 4 | RiCk0sS 5 | RiCk0sS 6 | RiCk0sS 7 | RiCk0sS 8 | RiCk0sS 9 | RiCk0sS 10 | RiCk0sS 11 | RiCk0sS 12 | RiCk0sS 13 | RiCk0sS 14 | RiCk0sS 15 | RiCk0sS 16 | RiCk0sS 17 | RiCk0sS 18

Edgy:
Edgy

Rakuga:
Rakuga 1 | Rakuga 2 | Rakuga 3 | Rakuga 4 | Rakuga 5 | Rakuga 6 | Rakuga 7

0-MessiaH-0:
0-MessiaH-0

Fog:
Fog 1 | Fog 2 | Fog 3 | Fog 4 | Fog 5

Whoo!:
Whoo! | Whoo! 2 | Whoo! 3

Tyla:
Tyla 1 | Tyla 2

RastaBillySkank:
RastaBillySkank 1 | RastaBillySkank 2 | RastaBillySkank 3 | RastaBillySkank 4

phi11ip:
phi11ip 1 | phi11ip 2 | phi11ip 3 | phi11ip 4 | phi11ip 5 | phi11ip 6 | phi11ip 7

GasMask:
GasMask 1 | GasMask 2 | GasMask 3 | GasMask 4

Shadow Dragon:
Shadow Dragon

Lord H:
Lord H 1 | Lord H 2

Fuzzy:
Fuzzy 1 | Fuzzy 2 | Fuzzy 3 | Fuzzy 4 | Fuzzy 5 | Fuzzy 6 | Fuzzy 7 | Fuzzy 8 | Fuzzy 9

DOMAYE:
DOMAYE 1 | DOMAYE 2 | DOMAYE 3

Dav1d:
Dav1d 1 | Dav1d 2 | Dav1d 3 | Dav1d 4

Dr Duck:
Dr Duck 1 | Dr Duck 2

SmokedKipper:
SmokedKipper 1 | SmokedKipper 2

NaÝßu©:
NaÝßu© 1 | NaÝßu© 2 | NaÝßu© 3

ajg:
ajg

Twain:
Twain | Twain 2

Insomnia:
Insomnia

Tetchy:
Tetchy 1 | Tetchy 2 | Tetchy 3 | Tetchy 4 | Tetchy 5 | Tetchy 6 | Tetchy 7 | Tetchy 8 | Tetchy 9 | Tetchy 10 | Tetchy 11

arix:
arix 1 | arix 2 | arix 3 | arix 4 | arix 5 | arix 6

Mystique:
Mystique 1 | Mystique 2 | Mystique 3 | Mystique 4 | Mystique 5

I'm bored so..

www.holmeshome.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/freeola5.htm

Dr Duck wrote:
> Here we go then...
>
> http://huw41.tripod.com/gad1.txt
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That doesn't load for me :(

Heres another 2..

www.holmeshome.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/freeola3.htm
www.holmeshome.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/freeola4.htm

This'll probably change a bit before the closing date (especially the text) but I'm quite chuffed with it so I though I'd post it now.

I like it 'cos it makes you want to keep reading it more than static text does. Have a look before you dismiss it, thinking I've just used a marquee.

http://geocities.com/smokedkipper_79/SR404.html

er-no wrote:
> Infact, I now dont care about lower res's when making my website.

That is a really naive approach....

I definetly wouldnt go that far, even though I use a much higher res, the majority of people do not, and websites must cater for all, so I generally design for 800x600, though I try to make things scalable to other res', or even find a clever way to make it fit 640x480.

Whooo! wrote:
> I'm at 1280x1024, can't stand anything lower.

Exactly the same view on that as well.. Anything lower seems pointless completely. Infact, I now dont care about lower res's when making my website.

:-D

Here we go then...

http://huw41.tripod.com/gad1.txt

(saved as a .txt to shrug off tripod's attempts to plaster their banner ads over my page :O) )

Proper one coming later, when i get a chance.
Hmm, when does this thing close?

My resolution is 1600x1200 but I surf at 933x577, and I can see everything just fine. I sometimes switch to 640x480 (virtual desktops) if I need pixel-perfect, but that's rare.

I'm at 1280x1024, can't stand anything lower.