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Sat 20/07/02 at 17:20
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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
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Tue 23/07/02 at 01:08
Regular
"l33t cs50r"
Posts: 2,956
Lord H wrote:
> Nimco wrote:
> A good site shouldn't be *designed* to fit any particular
> resolution.
> It should be able to scale to fit anything from a 640*480
> updwards...
>
> Very true. In an ideal world every website would cater for every
> resolution.
>
> However, I doubt very much that someone with that low a resolution
> would be surfing the web. It would be a nightmare! ;-)

Actually you'd be surprised how many people still do... especially academics;)
Tue 23/07/02 at 00:13
Regular
"Chavez, just hush.."
Posts: 11,080
The lowest setting is impossible to read, too small! Not enough on a page!

And 1280x1024 is amazing!

It kills you eyes!
Tue 23/07/02 at 00:11
Regular
"Chavez, just hush.."
Posts: 11,080
SR looks crap in 1024x768!

Yahoo works though...

Everything is too small!

Urgh!
Tue 23/07/02 at 00:08
Regular
"Chavez, just hush.."
Posts: 11,080
Nimco wrote:
> A good site shouldn't be *designed* to fit any particular resolution.
> It should be able to scale to fit anything from a 640*480 updwards...

How can it do that?

Most sites lok stupid in 1024x768!
Tue 23/07/02 at 00:00
Regular
".......on the attac"
Posts: 1,271
Nimco wrote:
> A good site shouldn't be *designed* to fit any particular resolution.
> It should be able to scale to fit anything from a 640*480 updwards...

Very true. In an ideal world every website would cater for every resolution.

However, I doubt very much that someone with that low a resolution would be surfing the web. It would be a nightmare! ;-)
Mon 22/07/02 at 23:58
Posts: 0
A good site shouldn't be *designed* to fit any particular resolution. It should be able to scale to fit anything from a 640*480 updwards...
Mon 22/07/02 at 23:55
Regular
"Chavez, just hush.."
Posts: 11,080
0-MessiaH-0 wrote:
> phi11ip I made my site in 1024x768 coz that's what the SR site is done
> in. Obviously they expect their viewers to have half-decent PCs...I
> mean, 800x600!?

>What are you, a caveman??? : D


Ug Ug Ug, Ug Ug Ug ,Ug Ug Ug. Ug, Ug Ug Ug Ug. Ug Ug Ug Ug ,Ug!
(Have to speak Cavemanish to understand that joke!)

Anyway, 800x600 works fine for me! I can't stand 1024x768 because everthing is too small!

And most sites are designed for 800x600 anyway...
Mon 22/07/02 at 22:31
Regular
"IT'S ALIVE!!"
Posts: 4,741
The SR website is still narrow enough to fit on the 800x600 resolution though, there are still lots of people who surf the web with that resolution, theres nothing wrong with it, SR would probably loose a lot of customers if they only made it viewable for 1024x800 +
Mon 22/07/02 at 22:23
Regular
"keep your receipt"
Posts: 990
phi11ip I made my site in 1024x768 coz that's what the SR site is done in. Obviously they expect their viewers to have half-decent PCs...I mean, 800x600!? What are you, a caveman??? : D
Mon 22/07/02 at 22:16
Regular
"IT'S ALIVE!!"
Posts: 4,741
http://www.enterthefog.co.uk/reserve/fog4.php

I can't think why I made this one, it doesn't match anything.
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