Hello Hello everyone. ^^ As permitted by the moddy., we're allowed ourselves a Header/Footer Competition. I'm hoping many of you will join and make beautiful and creative banners for this forum. ^^

With these guidelines and rules, you'll be able to compete in the competition.

Guidelines and Rules to Competitors

Header Banner size - Your banner size must be 600X150 (widthxheight). If it's bigger, it cannot compete. (I would assume for a Header that would be big enough)

Footer Banner Size - 400X150. (I would assume for a Footer that would be big enough)

Entries - You may apply only one entry and one entry only of each header and footer. More than that and you'll be disqualified. Make sure when making your banner you have completed it fully. If you are wanting to participate, you can post your entry in this thread. ^^

Titles - For your Header Banner it has to have the name of the forum in it. At least have "Bioshock" placed on it. Other added wordings such as 'Welcome to the forum' would be a lovely addition. As for the Footer. something such as 'Thank for stopping by' or 'please come again' would be wonderful.

Guidelines to Voting

The voting system I find to be the best. ^^ And I'm sure it;ll go along a lot quicker too....only one things, no guests, just members.

Vote Once - Obvious enough, vote once and only once for the header and footer banner you feel is your favourite and deserves to win. I will be keeping score.

Guests - The only reason no guests is because it could be any participant trying to win the comp.

Format

To format your post when entering a banner, please use this lay out.

Banner - Place the image of your banner there. Make sure you have a good host too. We want to be able to see it.

Direct Link - Be sure to send us the direct link to. It helps us a lot.


Participants

1.shadowj
2.Homunculus Lover
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Entries

Entries sent in can go up to September 29th, then no more are to be sent. Anymore than that, your message will be ignored. As soon as it's done, the voting can begin. XD

I'll ask the section moddy to place the 'disable signatures' tag on here. ^^

This message was edited by Homunculus Lover on Sep 21 2007.

Is a full-fledged competition really necessary yet? This forum's community is really very small, imo a heavily structured, tight-ruled competition seems counterproductive in contrast to a more open-ended sort.

quote Homunculus Lover

Header Banner size - Your banner size must be 600X150 (widthxheight). If it's bigger, it cannot compete. (I would assume for a Header that would be big enough)

I argee with Strayfire here, This isn't exactly an active forum, and let's be honest... Bioshock isn't exactly what would seem to be a long lasting game =/. Maybe play it through a couple of times, I don't see a large community building up in this forum >.>...

It doesn't matter, a banner contest is a great way to get a community an it gives some life to the standard Neo forum page. Again it doesn't matter if the game lasts 1 minute or 7 years. Look at Fable that takes a matter of 12 hours and that has a huge fan base.

Fact of the matter is, there is still a community and unfortunately most of the Bioshock community is in the 360 forum. We will still gain a few drips and drabs of members needing help but if no one is prepared to put the effort into a mere banner contest then yes there is no reason to have this forum at all

quote R3sistance

I argee with Strayfire here, This isn't exactly an active forum, and let's be honest... Bioshock isn't exactly what would seem to be a long lasting game =/. Maybe play it through a couple of times, I don't see a large community building up in this forum >.>...

And gives us neo-newbie designers something to work on

Thanks to all the people who got this idea off the ground while I was away, particularly to Homunculus Lover for getting the ball rolling, Mish for giving it his seal of approval, and Charuzu for the sweet work.

I'm glad some people are actually up fo it. I was thinking of entering myself, bt up against Charuzu. I don't think I'v have a chance. How cn you call yoursel a neo-newbie designer? XD

I seriously hope others participate. And no worries, Evanescence15. I enjoy making these. XD

You may as well mark me down as a participant HL though I won't get my banners in until around the 27th

Sorry for the double post but I have done a few banners. However I have kind of done mine a different way around (meaning instead of putting bioshock within the forum header it is in the footer etc.)

Also I am not too sure on my header so I will state now that it is a test just to see how it looks on Neo and not my official entry unless I say so (I hope this is ok and I don't mind changing them if it isn't, I have kept the .PSD files before merging all pictures together, though I am working on another header but unfortunately the big daddy pictures I am finding are either crud or too fiddly to mess with. What I am trying to say is, between now and the 29th the final product may change slightly (might add some text like welcome to rapture etc.)

Header

dude, those banners just look all squished and funny.

yeah I noticed that with the header after I uploaded it (though I am not happy with it altogether so it will be scrapped)

The footer one looked alright set with a height of 200 but had to squash it down since I forgot the limits of this contest was 150, however I had to stretch the bioshock logo to accommodate the pic which I noticed my cutting of it makes the little sister's head looks pointed

A few flaws but not bad for an hour's work (most it just looking for the pictures) at around 3am

I may thin of extending the deadline and asking around for peopl to join. Might help the forum a little, you know. ^^

Can I join if the height is over the limit? The width isn't...

If so... here are my entries.

Header


Footer


The header will appear transparent if/when it is put up as the header but if the PNG file is needed... I have it right here.



This message was edited by Robert Ninja on Sep 30 2007.

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Header Banner size - Your banner size must be 600X150 (widthxheight). If it's bigger, it cannot compete. (I would assume for a Header that would be big enough)

And I'll extend the dealine of this anyway. Sorry, I've just not been around.