Contest Entries Thread

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Post your entries here!

The top 5-7 will be selected by me and posted as a poll for members to vote on. The contest deadline is Tuesday, October 31 at 4:30 P.M. Eastern Standard Time. The poll will be posted probably sometime on Wednesday. Voting will be closed on Friday. (exact times to be announced.)

Thanks for your participation!

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I did this because it gave me an excuse to do some things that I don't normally do:

I used an all css layout (I normally still use tables and control everything with css)

I did a fixed width layout (This is something I never do, I always use fluid design/layout)

I optimized it for 1024 X 768 minimum (I still use 800 X 600 an the minimum for *real* sites)

Anyway...it was fun!

Here is my entry.

Roo

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This was a bit of a group effort with the help of some friends. We decided to create a site as a laugh for a certain good friend of ours. As I was already planning on having a pop at this competition, it seemed logical to combine the two.

Anyway here is our entry

Please just judge the first page for the competition as it's the only bit I kept all valid xhtml strict. There are two other links on this 'site' which have evil embedded sounds and are purely the 'fun' part of the site. Oh yeah I forgot not all the 'links' are real lol.

Right well credit where credit's due... so here are the credits:

  • Appeal text - The Ikon
  • Testimonies, appeal background music - Woodhouse
  • Site intro, Adverts - Sir Tony of the Stead
  • Pop-up image and background sound effect - La Resistance
  • Site coding, Logos, Articles - My good self
  • Ideas and Inspiration - All

Thanks for looking Laughing out loud

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OMG, that's hilarious!

Keep 'em coming Wink

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that was funny.

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Alright, contest deadline is here and we've got 2 entries Confused! Does anyone want some extra time to finish up? Let me know - we could extend it to the weekend. Otherwise it's Roo's or Monkeyboy. Laughing out loud

(I also heard from 2 people trying to submit their entires early but I haven't heard back...)

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Megan;209796 wrote: Does anyone want some extra time to finish up?

Uhm, yes please Smiling I'm about 80% done with my design. It seems I haven't got much time to work on it until the weekend.
Only if it won't be a problem ofcourse Smiling

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Well if the color is right (which I thought it was) I'll put URTournament.org into the competition as a working web with some members.

If the color isnt right and I had time (between work) I would change the color scheme to the right orange so I guess you can use your imagination. LOL.

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Heck I'd say if it's only two, just let it go for this time, and hope for more next time.

Can't wait to go back and read Monkeyboys's site when I have the time to do so. What I read was hysterical!! LOVE the content!

Roo

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Letting it go sounds fine by me. It was more then fun enough just to have a pop at designing a page from scratch (I use Wordpress on my main site). I'm glad you guys liked what we produced... maybe we'll think about expanding and produce some proper content now that it's started.

I must say i'm really impressed with Roo's page. That's alot of anger over Grocery Stores there hehe, Just don't get me started on Cash Machines.

Luv it though!

Peace out all, i'm off to bed Laughing out loud

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I thought meg would post my entry in my behalf, it was finished a week ago... anyways, my entry is www.blogaholik.com,.

This is a pet project wherein I intend to share what Ive learned about colors from when I was in the print media,and how it will or will not apply to the internet... Read more about it by visiting the site. Thanks!

and BTW its halloween, people are quite preoccupied at these times, like Im now in the rural area posting in this thread in dial-up... Happy Halloween People!

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That site was created by the people I used to work with before moving to Canada. As you can tell, it's quite a mad office. Seems they miss their McMarmott (my surname's McDermott) and am a Marmot because of the way I used to pop-up over some cupboards whenever the test team were having fun (well I couldn't miss out).

I also had to keep that Ikon character in check, he's the head of that so-called 'Test Team', they just sit on their arses all day raising bugs and trying to stitch-up the Engineering Dept (where I worked). I bet the whole company's going downhill now I'm not there to pop-up over those cupboards--like some annoying rodent freak--to tell Ikon what an awful job he's doing. Shunt!

The whole site's brilliant, am very flattered--you errrrrr, understand--sorry I haven't been in contact, have been busy filling out immigration forms, getting married and working on projects. Think I'm behind on the Marmot Monthly newsletter so better get my bum in gear.

As famous Canadian John Candyford once said:

John Candyford wrote: Get me a pie, you understand eh?

I presume 'Big Boy' was busy watching Top Gear over the Internet again when this production was taking shape? Send my regards. Smiling

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Aha of course, CoNgRaTuLiOnS on getting hitched dude... and to that loverly (now) wife of yours of course Laughing out loud

Not sure if you've heard but Jeremy and Fi have now tied the knot at last too (but anyway it's all on his Blog if you get a chance).

The companies not going downhill but apparently TMS is without their Wonder Marmot to free up the other two reprebates lol.

Annnnyway yeah the site... glad you like.

demonhale's site looks cracking too by the way.

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Monkeyboy;209818 wrote:

demonhale's site looks cracking too by the way.

Thanks!, goodluck in the contest, hope we could extend the contest a bit to enable us to market and advertise the contest as well as prolong exposure to the entries... We should create some hype in the blogosphere... and DIGG...

Laughing out loud

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MonkeyBoy wrote: Not sure if you've heard but Jermemy and Fi have now tied the knot at last too (but anyway it's all on his Blog if you get a chance).

Tell them congratulations from the McMarmott! Also tell him not to have any kids, they might be ginger. Or even worse: a carrier!

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Well, back to the contest...

Lets wait until Jack's entry is ready and then we'll do a little poll. Joseff, we'll throw in your site too, just to make it more interesting Smiling

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Megan;209825 wrote: Well, back to the contest...

Lets wait until Jack's entry is ready and then we'll do a little poll.

Decided to give up some sleep Smiling

My entry

Total design is 108 Kb, tested on FF, IE6 and Safari.
The size is big, but it was great to have a chance to try that for once. Although I've clearly seen these colors enough by now, I really enjoyed making it Smiling
Theme is pretty obvious I guess Wink

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Yay! Wink

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I did digg the thread but it didn't get picked up... Got, like 3 diggs (including Liam and Me!)

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whats the update here? we can start blog rolling for this to create more attention...

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demonhale;210155 wrote: whats the update here? we can start blog rolling for this to create more attention...

What do you mean by blog rolling??? Obivously I'm crap at promotion (was hoping some users might pick it up and spread it around - they didn't.) We did send out a bulk email to all members but it seems that they weren't really interested. I never did blog about it on my own site, although I don't think there are many reading that who don't read this forum too.

Let me knmow if you want us to send your money back or if you want to save it for the next contest. We'll do another one of these in a month or two.

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Oh no! you're not going to cancel this contest are you? Sad

Save the prizes for next time but you could still do a poll for a laugh... it would be a shame if nothing came of this contest especially as some people did put the effort in and produced some really good stuff.

You could even give it another week to give DDoSAttack a chance to enter and give more time for promotion Laughing out loud

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Those three sites look good Smiling

Sorry I had to be away for the past week or so and missed this. Ironic because this contest is why I initially joined :eek:

Btw - I dugg it Laughing out loud

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Okay, we'll definitely do a poll then. DDoS - do you want some time to complete an entry?

Any promotional ideas would be appreciated Smiling

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I posted about the contest on my blog hoping to get some people over here. Guess it didn't help much.

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Megan;210263 wrote: Okay, we'll definitely do a poll then.

Yay! Laughing out loud

Unfortunately my blog only has about 5 or 6 readers by the time you remove accidental visitors... but I linked this competition anyway Smiling

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Megan;210263 wrote: Okay, we'll definitely do a poll then. DDoS - do you want some time to complete an entry?

Any promotional ideas would be appreciated Smiling

Sweet!!! Yeah give me a few days and I'll have something...

I am in agreement with MonkeyBoy about the money and saving it for next time

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Well it's a good idea, certainly. As always there's the problem of promoting. Although I would rate it as a success! We've got some good entries. These things always take time to get going, we should do more impossible design contests in the future.

There're plenty more disgusting colours in the pallette to use. Wink

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You dont need colors to make it impossible. Actually a good designer should be able to make any color combo work. I thing features is what make some design impossible.

I run into users who ask for stuff that isn't impossible per say but just isn't usable.

i.e.
I want the page to display x and y but only if x and y are blank ... so you want a blank page? ... no I want to see x and y but on the condition that they are both blank ... yeah, thats a blank page ... hmm, maybe. Hey let's give it a try and see if it works!

Sad but thats a real life incident.

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Oh we've got lots of other ideas for impossible challenges Wink

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The next impossible challenge - a blank page with content! Sticking out tongue

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Well I tried to promote but hmmm it takes a month to make a dent really... Why not keep this contest live for a longer duration, and start a new contest to compliment this one, like editing a photo or something, with all the contest kept alive until it gathers enough momentum.

Blog rolling I mean we start a blog about the contests here at TWF, then we add that one way link to our own blogroll to this newly created contests blog that points to the forum, that way if we reach the 100,000 link mark at technorati, bloggers will start visiting and joining and might be a good idea to increse rankings too...

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Setting up a blog would actually be a little silly, we have a whole forum at our disposal, going to a link for a blog is the same as going to a link in this forum.

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Renegade;210411 wrote: Setting up a blog would actually be a little silly, we have a whole forum at our disposal, going to a link for a blog is the same as going to a link in this forum.

Yeah, but technoratis success is based on blog sites, you can't actually use a forum to blogroll... thats my point... forumroll maybe... Laughing out loud

BTW, this technique was used by some other forums to get their contests going, the more we find techniques to promote this, the better for TWF in the long run...

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Probably still not a good idea, the internet right now is littered with blogs - most of them with very little good content - and if we just make one, then it's just adding to the crowd. Having a blog just for the sake of this contest is pointless. Infact, like I said before, having a blog for this site is a little pointless, we have a forum at our disposal.

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The difference is, blogrolling is "targeted" if you tried blogging or find a professional blogger (which is a new job description now btw) those on the blogroll get quality hits, and attracts people who are actually interested on the topic... More ways to promote, better results... And remember, this is just a suggestion.

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I was going to put it up on my blog (forgot to do that at the time), which is in technorati. Although I'm not sure how many people actually read it!

We'll do that for next time, okay?

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Just wondered... is the contest still accepting entries or did it close on the original date at the end of October as I finally have time to make an entry! Wink

Andy

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No, you can make an entry. Still waiting for DDosAttack to submit. Can you have it done by Monday? We can start the poll then.

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Will see what I can do this weekend!

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Ok... here's my entry I hope it looks ok on IE as my crappy old windows laptop has died and all my other machines are macs!

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Nice site, I really like it. The brown (ok orange apparently) shades work really well and the header is nice too. Smiling

Oh and it works fine with IE.

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That's nice Andy Smiling

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Cool! I will put up the poll as soon as I get a chance (that might be tomorrow...)

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