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Geek Culture / 2nd Annual Banner Contest for TGC Forums.

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DJ Almix
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Posted: 4th Oct 2011 04:00 Edited at: 2nd Nov 2011 21:43
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STATUS: OFFICIAL


DEADLINE: Nov, 18th



MESSAGE TO MOD/EVERYONE: I wanted this to be a yearly thing, and hope that maybe the mods will give me a little more officialism when it comes to these things, instead of making a thread like this and waiting for mod to happen upon it (or someone emailing them). It would be awesome if I had a title for myself or something next to my name ("banner contest creator" or something *wink* *wink) or/and I actually had the power to change the banners myself.

Maybe a title like?

The Banner Guru



I propose we try to make this a yearly thing, if not, or if users are opposed to it, post your thoughts here.

What do you guys think about this?

Rules:

1. The image must be 459x60

2. The image theme must center around the forums

3. It can be an internet meme, but still must center around the forum theme of "geeks" and "nerds". Please try to to heavily use commercial icons.


4. All artwork must be original. Artwork is not any images from a meme/game. Banners can contain TGC related things, such as program icons, screenshot, ect. like this banner:




5. Try to add a black fadeout gradient on the left side of your images so it flows with the webpage

6. Try to create a modern funny image, think about what's "in" today for nerds and geeks

7. Save as .JPG only, no other formats (this includes animated .GIF's)


How will the images be chosen?


If it goes again like last time, images will be chosen based on how well they fit with the website and what content they contain (to-be-determined by a mod).


How many images will be chosen?


All of them will just put in one gaint .ZIP file by me and sent

I don't have an image editing program...


Here are some free (and powerful tools):

Paint.NET
GIMP
Pixlr


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Johnski
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Posted: 4th Oct 2011 16:29 Edited at: 4th Oct 2011 17:24
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Entering

EDIT here is my entry (The TRON glowish font is my sort of my mark)

EDIT 2 .JPG is crap. I reccomend changing to multiple format's like: .jpg and/or .png



I will hapily make any alteration's to the banner at any point.
Bugger! I spelt Apollo Wrong. Not to worry. i am on the case

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DOUBLE POST ALERT!

Here is my second entry:



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The Slayer
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Posted: 4th Oct 2011 21:48
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Well, it's not official yet, but here's my first entry. More will follow. Have some great ideas for banners.



Quote: "Try to create a modern funny image, the current ones are very old school"

What's wrong with old school?

Cheers

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Posted: 4th Oct 2011 22:24 Edited at: 2nd Nov 2011 22:58
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Here's one I think almost everyone can identify with.



and another of recent discussion.



one more...



and last one. Maybe...



Definitely last one.



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CoffeeGrunt
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Okay, even I approve of that one.

Got a genuine belly-laugh there, Xplosys. You did well.

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Pincho Paxton
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Posted: 4th Oct 2011 22:52 Edited at: 4th Oct 2011 22:53
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Here's mine...



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Here's a second attempt. I think this one might be appropriate with the new year coming.



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@The Slayer

EPIC!

@*everyone*

I was hoping for this sometime soon... why cant it simply be a continually added element? 9I understand someone has to implement it...) but it will be so worth it ^^

Keep peeled for my entries... they might not be as good as the current entires but... will try.

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For anyone making these banners, remember that the left edge has to be black.

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IIRC We had a community banner competition sometime back in 2005 I believe. I could be off a year or so. Not sure why it didn't continue every year?

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Posted: 5th Oct 2011 16:47 Edited at: 5th Oct 2011 16:48
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Well here's my entry #1, if this goes ahead.


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@The Slayer,
TGC has been around longer than 10 years (since 1999). I believe it's the Apollo Forum that came into existence in Aug 2002; but that may be what you are referring to.

Anyways, we need some updates to the TGC history. I remember a thread from way back...



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The Slayer
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Posted: 5th Oct 2011 18:26
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Quote: "@The Slayer

EPIC!"

Thanks, MrValentine. Looking forward to see yours.

Quote: "why cant it simply be a continually added element? 9I understand someone has to implement it...)"

Yeah, not sure if someone would find the time to continually add/change banners.

It would be nice to have some animated banners, though.

Quote: "@The Slayer,
TGC has been around longer than 10 years (since 1999). I believe it's the Apollo Forum that came into existence in Aug 2002; but that may be what you are referring to."

Yep, that's what I'm referring to with the banner.
Maybe I should adjust the banner a bit so that it is more obvious.

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DJ Almix
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Posted: 5th Oct 2011 20:26 Edited at: 5th Oct 2011 21:58
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I would love to get this going at a continually added element, as last year when I started this, it turned out so well (*le old thread*)

I wanted this to be a yearly thing, and hope that maybe the mods will give me a little more officialism when it comes to these things, instead of making a thread like this and waiting for mod to happen upon it (or someone emailing them). It would be awesome if I had a title for myself or something next to my name ("banner contest creator" or something *wink* *wink) or/and I actually had the power to change the banners myself.


Quote: "It would be nice to have some animated banners, though. "


I would love that to, but I think it would require to much bandwidth...sadly

Edit:

The Banner Guru


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DJ Almix
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Sorry double-post:

We need more entries! Come on, it's all in, nobody is judging here


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I remember when the first one was run that picked what might be the current set of banners, or a previous iteration. It feels like a long long time ago (I have a screenshot with one of my banners on the site as a test, using what looks like ie5).

I think was one of mine that got shortlisted, but it might have been one of the others I made.

If it still meets the dimensions feel free to enter it again

edit i found , and that I was hosting for megaton last time. I've not heard from him in years so I don't know if he'd really want to enter them again.

All the files are dated 1st of July 2004, for those interested in a little history.

edit2: another image I found with one of my other submissions, a little taste of the times: http://www.lochviewwest.plus.com/dblogos/look4.JPG

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This is what I came up with.





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I have another one... kind of shameless, but whatever.


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Another entry by me.



Just wish to know if this is going to be official or not? Don't wanna spend useless time designing banners. Have other things on my mind.
Could a mod or someone else in charge answer that question, please? Thank you.

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One more...



Brian.

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and last one. Maybe...



Brian.

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Nice one Brian ... but... why are they all Asian ??

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How about this baby!



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Quote: " why are they all Asian"

No reason. No reason at all.

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Quote: " No reason. No reason at all. "

Good to know

Here's my pretty lame one... Cant really think of anything creative ATM


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I'd like to see a shine on those banners, Brian


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Well that got a bit of the creative juices flowing

Here's a new one... if youve been to the FPSc Forums recently youd know where inspiration for this comes from.


This ones just for laughs:


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Quote: "I'd like to see a shine on those banners, Brian"


I did the best I could, but I think I might have messed up my LCD screen with the polish.

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One more...



Quote: "why are they all Asian ??"

Yeah, that's weird.

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Here's one.



[center]

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I will try to add one later to this after i get this dang website updated before my broadband dies

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I have an idea for one, I just gotta re-install doom on my machine, get the right ending caption.

There was one that I never could forget that I think could be utilized in this.

Quote: "DON'T LEAVE NOW WHEN YOU COME BACK, I'LL BE WAITING WITH A BAT. LOVE, THE GAME CREATORS."


EDIT: Or maybe not... I forgot that Bethesda owns id now, and they might try to sue us like Mojang.
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I'm going to try my hand at making one, I just need to wait for the right inspriation.

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Quote: "I just need to wait for the right inspriation."

And...confirmation.

Maybe BatVink could shed some light on the matter?

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Here's mine!

[CENTER][/CENTER]

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I haven'tbeen so amazed by a banner since 1992 either!

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I know, I know, couldn't be bothered to fix it.

[CENTER][/CENTER]

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Boy, the gramma police is gonna get you!

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One more for the road.



Cheers

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ive finally got time... for some under inspirational designs... no creativity in me at the moment...







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I think you are colour blind . Even your avatar is orange as well.

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them smilies look red to me and oh yellow... ooo orange


Nah just feiry effect really lol

I am blind for the record.

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Don't let this die.


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One more!





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true

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It's so multi-purpose, from sarcastic to light chiding, the entire spectrum of TGC emotion!

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I actually thought this Emoticon was the best... mostly because of its syntax >.<

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Sometimes I like to use words out of contents
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Kezz, epic fail at endfunction... or was that the point lol

edit or maybe I need to look back at coding again... not been coding for a few weeks now and getting busy with a function called life()

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