UBB.Developers Forums Announcements Announcements Banner Graphic Contest

For something fun for the next few days, we are gonna have a graphics contest for the banner ad you see at the top of our UBB.

Everyone is eligible to enter, it must be <22k, between 550x55 and 600x60, and use the color scheme found in our present design. The deadline for entry is 10:00AM CST Wednesday 12-06-2000. Please post in the graphics forum your entry, or in this thread.

We will use atom911's voting script from Midnight that night until midnight the next night to allow everyone possible to vote on their favorite. You will prolly merit higher votes if the design takes into consideration the upcoming holidays... All users will get one vote to vote for their favorite design, with the three admins here, Deb, Digital Boy, and I having veto power over the final results in case someone like "Hank the angry drunken dwarf" wins...

The top 7 entrants will get their banner rotated on this site thru January 1, 2001.

Good luck, we will have some more interesting contests in the near future, and tomorrow the second place finisher from this month's member spotlight will have their interview posted... a very nice site, to be sure.

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Allen

- http://www.stand318.com

*fires up photoshop*

Just a thought

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http://www.iamcal.com

Here's a standard one:


And here's a holiday one:


Kinda crude, but I'm gonna try to post one more after I get some sleep

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http://www.opentechsupport.net

This message has been edited by Tolitz on December 04, 2000 at 04:10 AM

Cal seems to be participating, so I am guessing moderators are allowed in this contest, right?

I hope so... I'll be busting out Photoshop as soon as I get home.

---Skorpion

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moderator ~ styles & graphics

Yes, everyone is allowed.

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Hack Developer of the Ultimate Bulletin Board.
Due to time limitation, I do not offer support Via. E-mail or AIM. Please post on the forums.

Regards,
MasterMind

This is the best I can do.

Here is my first attempt:


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Alright! After I get home, I'll work hard on this

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This is going to be very cool and UBBDev's very excited about it! Remember this is happening quickly so please create, post your banners soon and don't forget to VOTE. We're looking forward to seeing a lot of creative banners from the many talented people that are members here.

(and I promise UBBDev will NOT recount the counted votes and 'every vote counts'.... LOL... now where have I heard that??)

Cheers!

Here is another I was working on

Um... just to make sure: are you looking for a temporary seasonal banner, with the intention to return to the present one after the holidays?


<---the one that always needs clarification


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This message has been edited by scat on December 04, 2000 at 03:49 PM

Ok what can the ad be for ? Is it a UBBDev banner only ?

Cryptik

This message has been edited by Cryptik on December 04, 2000 at 04:05 PM

My attempt at a "gothic" ubbdev



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The revelation beaten on a skin drum...

These banners are ubbdev banners only..

Nice ones already!

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Hack Developer of the Ultimate Bulletin Board.
Due to time limitation, I do not offer support Via. E-mail or AIM. Please post on the forums.

Regards,
MasterMind

that says "www.ubb.com". It should say "www.ubbdev.com"



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if ($Em8 eq "cool"){
print "Correct";
} else {
print "You Suck!";
}

My contributions:

Only 4K, transparent background gif


25K JPEG, couldn't get this one under 22K sorry.


21K JPEG


18K JPEG

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CoolPaulHan.com


Saehoon.com

This message has been edited by Ne0 on December 04, 2000 at 10:14 PM

Just a reminder of important things to note.

Please also note that there is a specific thread in the Graphics Forum designated for the contest banners only. Good luck everyone!

Here's my first entry. It's about 24KB, which is 2KB over the limit - sorry about that. If you don't want to include it in the poll, s'ok with me. I will try a couple other designs later, too, to make it under the 22KB limit.



---Skorpion

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moderator ~ styles & graphics

Here is my first entry:


Those lightbubls were hard to make and they still dont look quite right, i might work on it a bit more tomorrow.

Andrew

Here my second one:


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Here's a second possible logo - only 12K if I remember right, so it's well under the limit. This one's not quite as good as my previous one, though, it's just an idea I had...



---Skorpion

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malum superest

Done under 9 mins sorry have little time... Will do some more tomorrow.



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User friendly GFX designer.

its insane beouse if i make a banner now or later noone will have the chance to vote for it!

Well, I'm not very good at graphics designing , but here is a try :




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Bond .. James Bond

I like the second one that ne0 made!

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www.skinningworld.net

Huh, was confused: living in Germany made be mad about the timeZone... well, just for fun, here we go:















hope you'll enjoy 'em, anyways...
regards from germany,
chris

Okay here are my toys i played with a bit:









VOTE FOR ME!
hehe
I made about 11 different "toys" totally 34 pics... tell me if you want to see them...

Techno, you kind of OVER ABUSED the whole lens flare thing...

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User friendly GFX designer.

2fujin, yeah, seems so ... but try to have a look @ just ONE of these; a bunch of graphics which include the same type of gfx-effect always seems to be kinda strange - i did all of the banner just in a few minutes, so - well... i won't appreciate feedback (*evilgrin*), :-)
chris

Fujin, chill out on your comments regarding other's work, you still only get one vote...

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Allen

- http://www.stand318.com

um, I think allen forgot to mention that this is supposed to be a christmas logo contest!!!!

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I wonder if i entered the contest to late...

I did say that those who took into consideration the upcoming holidays would prolly recieve higher marks... and we do have some very nice ones, maybe I shoulda been more clear...

luuk... I haven't had time to get them all together yet, so we'll still be accepting entries for a few more hours...

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Allen

- http://www.stand318.com

Finally...

The banners are finally up, you can begin here --> click me! <--

Click on the Banners link and get a cup of coffee, there's 38 banners there and they will take a while to download if you are on a dial-up... You get one vote, so be sure and go through the whole list, I put the holiday banners up top, and the rest in no particular order. I apologize, 4 were eliminated for being over the size/ weight limit.

Be sure and check the whole list, some very nice ones are at the bottom, including syinide's excellent contribution. Top 7 will be rotated throughout the site thru January 1, 2001.

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Allen

- http://www.stand318.com

When you said "Size/weight limit" Allen, I suddenly had thoughts of banners that were too fat to fit on planes and things.. you know.. a ubb dev banner with rolls of fat and stuff.

ohhh.. never mind, just one of my weird tangential things going on again..

I thought it was funny though..

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I wonder if the ADA people will get us for that? We're being discriminatory towards "dimensionally challenged" graphics...

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Allen

- http://www.stand318.com

Yep, you are..

Could be a dodgy case..


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Here is the lousy one:





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