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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

http://andi.ath.cx/404.html

http://www.enterthefog.co.uk/reserve/

Nice to see an EGAD in here :)

here's my first;

http://www.geocities.com/thestateofplay/gadcompo.html

i managed to nick the GIF of one of SR ads but couldn't retrieve the hyperlink...sorry...

I timed how fast the site opens, on my 56k (off GeoCities, eurgh...) it took 6 seconds.

Stay tuned for more attempts...if I don't collapse with exhaustion!

Enjoy being 50 Tony, it won't last...

Ok, mines quite heavily based on the current one.
I think the current ones fine, just needs some better wording.

It's a simple design but I feel it works better

http://dialspace.dial.(:D) pipex.com/town/pipexdsl/o/aoyj70/404sr/code404.htm

remove the (:D)
Tell me what you think. I can go back to the drawing board if necessary, or maybe graphically enhance this one.

Tony wrote:
> 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.

I'm not very creative (ask tyla about that). But if you do want me to crunch a page for you, i do have an uncanny knack of shrinking them. btw, how about this for wording for your page:

The page you requested was run over whilst crossing the information superhighway.

very corny, but hey....

How do you know Edgy, do you visit them often? :-D

I'm just a mere amateur web-designer myself...just had some practise when I had to do a site for a school IT project :)

Actually...I better not repeat that....amateur pages....sounds like something from a 'naughty' site lol

Nice one, Edgy, very nice looking. I'm not too good on web design, but no harm in a try, eh?

I've done this one for now. I hope you like the design :)

http://www.geocities.com/darkedgy/error.htm

http://www.geocities.com/reviews_central//freeola_compo.html

Okay, it's very bad at the moment, but it does load quickly and i will improve the layout.