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Medieval Coder
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Posted: 26th Jun 2006 06:24 Edited at: 26th Jun 2006 06:24
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Posted: 26th Jun 2006 06:58 Edited at: 26th Jun 2006 06:59
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Posted: 26th Jun 2006 07:15 Edited at: 26th Jun 2006 07:16
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Was it too hard to host all your banners somewhere and show them within a single post?

There's a lot good banners on here from people.

Well, I just saw this thread and considering I had 15 minutes before the 25th was over for me, here's my quick cheezy entry.



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Posted: 26th Jun 2006 07:45 Edited at: 26th Jun 2006 07:47
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I made them as I went, I never know when the next lighting strom is going to hit and knock the power out...
There is some tough competition really tough..
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Posted: 26th Jun 2006 08:11
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I think it's quality over quantity, really.


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Quote: "Was it too hard to host all your banners somewhere and show them within a single post?"


Off site hosting can be unreliable, I dunno about noob, but I'd rather have them hosted by the compo runner than by another site. Another site, if it goes down is your responsibility, if TGC forums go down on the other hand it's something that can be argued for by the contenstance.

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Richard Davey
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Sorry noob but the deadline was the 25th. I cannot include any banners submitted after that time. All banners have now been collected, I will pick the short list later today, and then we'll get them onto the voting site.

Bite my shiny metal ass
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good luck people!

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Posted: 26th Jun 2006 17:15 Edited at: 26th Jun 2006 17:28
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Who's June 25th?
My june 25th in the USA or your June 25th in the UK?
Thats about a 3 hour time difference...

Edit: 5 hour difference...
With this edit: Its 10:28 AM here, and an amazing 3:28 in the UK.
Have a good morning, i mean afternoon...
Edit 3: My first 3 entries got in the UK end of the contest..
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uh...can I add 10 pixels to a bunch of my entries? I miss typed once, then used the mis-typed template a bunch of times...

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Posted: 26th Jun 2006 17:41 Edited at: 26th Jun 2006 17:42
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Sorry, but your 10:39 minutes late...or if in UK time your 15:39 minutes late...however should you have lived in hawaii, then you would have only been 4:39 minutes late
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i got a ten hour differnece from the uk

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I got a 0 hour difference, I submitted one banner where people have submitted about 25 and no offence, there not great.

Quote: "I think it's quality over quantity, really."


Yes,Indeed.
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Posted: 26th Jun 2006 18:43
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Well i suppose I should learn from this even if i was "late"...
What should I do to improve them? Eh?
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Some quick handy tips for when the voting comes live...

Try to see how the banner will look in place. Some look amazing on their own but don't look right when on the forum page.

Is it more of an advertising banner than an identifying/background banner?

Look at the colour scheme used. Does it fit with the blues/greys/whites of the forum or does it stick out like a sore thumb? Of course, some contrast can be a good thing but it should at least try to look like part of the design.

In this case, the banner should probably not be the most prominent thing on the screen (unlike when creating advertising banners). It should be a nice addition to finish off the header of the page and not something distracting.

Personally, I think the over use of plugins, stock photography and clipart should be frowned upon - but thats just personal opinion

Good luck everyone.
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Quote: "Does it fit with the blues/greys/whites of the forum "


That's a tough one, you can select your own forum colour scheme.



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With this forum, Id choose Greys and whites and blacks.. all the the grayscale... because that fits with most of the schemes ...also a bit of color with grey scale surroundings looks cool
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Posted: 26th Jun 2006 19:51 Edited at: 26th Jun 2006 19:52
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Here are the ones that I thought turned out pretty good, guess I will have to wait till next year...huh?







Edit : Sorry!!!! Sorry for the large sized pictures, I didnt know photobucket had the capability of making them this large!
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Posted: 26th Jun 2006 19:53
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Next year? I'm sure the last one of these was a 2004 compo.


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Posted: 26th Jun 2006 19:57
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Thanks for just crushing all my hopes and dreams..
Well, I learned a few things about banners from this, so it wasnt completly worthless...
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Posted: 26th Jun 2006 20:02
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My banner pwns all yours... it is burried somewhere in this thread.

Your Mod was deleted by the Government.
One can only know so much, only comprehend the world to a point. After that we exist as impressionable beings. Doing nothing, being nothing, forever nothing.
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I've got the orange colour scheme in my forum preferences. Not sure why, usually I hate orange.

Interesting tips from Zappo on the voting stage. It'll be interesting to see how it all works (I wasn't on the forums for the last one).

Again, good luck to everyone.

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It defaults to orange after changing something twice.

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One can only know so much, only comprehend the world to a point. After that we exist as impressionable beings. Doing nothing, being nothing, forever nothing.
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The one noob to rule them all

Why are you posting all this junk..? we know what they look like in the browser, Your just killing my bandwidth..
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Quote: "Edit : Sorry!!!! Sorry for the large sized pictures, I didnt know photobucket had the capability of making them this large"


Thank you, toggle function.


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So when's the ETA on the short list?

Weapon Creator for sale soon!

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Its been 3 days and i havent seen a list yet


I pity the noob!
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Well your blind.
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Other things have come up, the voting URL will be in the newsletter if I get time.

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You know eddie that whould explane alot


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Like your spelling?

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It was a joek gash i cna spael jst fnie tnak yoa


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course you can spell fine


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Oh man! I just got back from holidays! I love these kind of compos. Oh well. I just got an idea and had to post it.


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lol, I'm sure I saw something just like it a few pages back.

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*contest is over.. *
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But the list hasn't been written...someones smart

New site!
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The list has been written it just takes time to put up, he did say he was aiming for the release of the next newsletter, but give him a break I'm sure he's got more importnat things going then a banner compo.

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No not the list of entrants, the list of people who got through the "cut out the utter crap" round.. that takes time to formulate and its not that important really (as rich said)

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@Earl Walker: It's true, somebody did that already.

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My entry:

Free sigs, email addresses and contests!
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Rofl...


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haha!

1) Compo over..

2) Compo over

3) oh and it's a wee bit big.
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I am modelling Link for a contest.


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HAHAHAHA AWESOME MINE DIDNT GET PUT THROUGH TO FINALS!!!!

i feel so proud, just like this penguin

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Can we vote for ourselves?

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