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Dave J
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Posted: 5th Jul 2004 10:18 Edited at: 5th Jul 2004 12:44
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Quote: "Why don't you just store that in the database? If you have enough space, I suggest copying the images over to your own server, as that will give you much more flexibility over what to do with them - and the user will be warned if they try to submit something with the wrong URL."


Yeah, Jess suggested storing the file size on the server as well which is what I think I'll do. I'm not going as far as to actually copy the images onto my server because I think that's a bit excessive and it prevents users from simply modifying the image and reuploading it to their own server to see the changes automatically.

Edit: Made that change so displaying File Info is super-fast now. Also got off my lazy bum and reconfigured my Apache server so now I can do all the modifying and testing on it and the site won't go haywire.


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Posted: 5th Jul 2004 17:48 Edited at: 5th Jul 2004 18:03
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Hey, here is mine, hope its not too late



I'll probly have a go at some more later on. By the way, all the ones submitted so far are looking awesome.

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Posted: 5th Jul 2004 18:39 Edited at: 6th Jul 2004 19:48
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Here are mine:














Thanks to Silent for kindly hosting the banners for me
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Posted: 5th Jul 2004 22:01
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Exeat - did you get my email?

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Dave J
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Posted: 5th Jul 2004 22:10 Edited at: 5th Jul 2004 22:11
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Yeah, did you get mine? o_O

Well, I guess you wouldn't be asking if you did... err, I sent it about 12 hours ago so I guess I'll send it again.


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Posted: 5th Jul 2004 23:28 Edited at: 6th Jul 2004 02:31
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Thought I'd give it a shot so heres mine.







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Another two from me...





Both of these are using a high compression ratio, using a medium you can still get a similar image, slight colour change in the blue letters.

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A new one, as with all of mine it's a piece of KaK with two capital Ks.




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The Lynx
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@Exeat- Added my banner.

As of now I am entry #131! Just sad I didn't get it in earlier!
http://ep.designex.net/Misc/Apollo/Dummy.php?Img=http://img20.exs.cx/img20/5185/tgc_logo.jpg

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Posted: 6th Jul 2004 07:43 Edited at: 6th Jul 2004 08:24
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<sigh> here's another feeble attempt at making a good banner.



oh... and since many people are doing lots of variatoins of banners, i thought i'd go back and change the font of one i did a while back, cause it didn't match the site. So, here's two variations of my first.



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better now with this font

next:



... they call it a royale with cheese ...
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my entry.

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Posted: 6th Jul 2004 15:31
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One more.





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Troan, is this a message to spammers ?


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I added a few more.. Tell me which you like best (even if it's none) and I'll ask Exeat to remove the others.

Mine are at the bottom.
http://ep.designex.net/Misc/Apollo/index.php?Page=2

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Teh Go0rfmeister
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dammit if only my home pc was working, i got a propper bo idea using some recently learnt tricks in paintshop pro.

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Exeat, mind changing the script so that it remembers the settings between pages? (sort by most recent, for example)


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Posted: 6th Jul 2004 22:02
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It does remember the settings. It remembers the settings if you close your browser and go back to the page! Do you have cookies enabled? If not then that's probably causing the problem.


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Posted: 6th Jul 2004 22:03 Edited at: 6th Jul 2004 22:45
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I'm surprised no-one's gone down the childish path like I'm about to.



I present to you, the extent of my artistic abilities...

[removed]

EDIT - can you believe that I spelt 'teh' incorrectly the first time round?

EDIT2 - @VanB - Balls. I respectfully withdraw my entry due to potential intellectual property/copyright issues. I think MS patented 'teh', 'codez' and 'book is stupid'.

I honestly thought I went through all the pages - I guess not. Anyway, I'm far too busy to be reading stuff *turns around and stomps off*.

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Posted: 6th Jul 2004 22:17
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Adr hasn't bothered to read the other 6 pages!


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Posted: 6th Jul 2004 22:28
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Whoops, messed up a CHMOD there, sorry if it suddenly stopped working!

Anyway, las6, what browser are you using? It might be because of that also.


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LOL Adr!!

I reckon an animated gif version would be cool, like:

I HATE BOOK
then
BOOK IS STUPID
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GIMME TEH CODEZ

That would get my vote .


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Posted: 6th Jul 2004 23:08 Edited at: 6th Jul 2004 23:12
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Urgh, looks like quite a few people's banners have gone down. 'Tis a shame, now I'm not sure whether to delete them or not because it may be a temp thing or they might have deleted it on purpose.

Like I knew SpecTre's were working up until now and Giff's aren't working because his host is Geocities and consequently doesn't have hotlinking, I think I may reupload his to my server for the duration of the competition to fix that.

Edit: Well SpecTre's are back up so it looks like Robin and Newbi2Basic are the only ones with a banner down now. I won't delete them though on the off-chance they come back up.


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I would suggest that you do not include the name "The game creators" You already have your brand on the site.

Also i suggest that you make a new slogan and include some screenshots from something you are proud of,
Perhaps something like this:



PS: Could really use the new terrain plugin

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best regards Preben Eriksen, Vonna.com
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Posted: 6th Jul 2004 23:39 Edited at: 6th Jul 2004 23:40
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Hi all,

- IMPORTANT NOTE -


Exeat has been adding some nice admin features to his banner script for me, so I am going to be using it to short-list the banners and you lot will all be using it to place your votes too.

This means if your banner isn't listed on the site below - it won't get shortlisted. If your web host dies and the banner doesn't load, sorry! Suggest you send it to someone here who can host it quickly for you.

Check your banner appears:
http://ep.designex.net/Misc/ApolloAd/index.php

Submit a new banner:
http://ep.designex.net/Misc/ApolloAd/New.php

I will short-list all of the banners this friday (9th July) and once that is done voting will be allowed. You can have until the following friday to vote and that's it - the winners will be announced. I'll then put the new banners into the mix very early in the week following.

That's it - pretty simple really. Go submit if you haven't done so already!

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Rich,
Erm, could you do me a favour and upload the banner I sent you please? - my demo of FTP explorer has just expired!. If not I could find somewhere, but I doubt I'll have time today.


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Posted: 7th Jul 2004 00:46 Edited at: 7th Jul 2004 00:49
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Exeat:
You can delete the one which doesn't often work (I think its called tgc4.jpg). I've got them hosted somewhere else now, and I resubmitted them the other day (I submitted about seven of them together)
Thanks
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Preben: good point
Rich: I can change the text on my banners to say something else if you want

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I'm getting Addicting! Whatever that means....





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I changed one of my entries, removed the TGC text as someone mentioned, it's already on the left. So No. 126 has been replaced with the no text version.

[For some reason I couldn't add a new entry, two text files couldn't be opened or something]

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Posted: 7th Jul 2004 02:10 Edited at: 7th Jul 2004 03:59
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I'm not sure my submission was successful. I got a load of error messages .





And the preview...

http://ep.designex.net/Misc/Apollo/Dummy.php?Img=http://img26.photobucket.com/albums/v77/hpesoj/Random/hamishBanner.jpg

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ahm. It seems to be working now.
I'm using IE, btw. (thought it had something to do with the url as I used the .tk one)

The shortlist however, seems messed up. First I got 4 logos, and when checking it later it showed me 2 logos spread on 2 pages... ??


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Posted: 7th Jul 2004 02:34 Edited at: 7th Jul 2004 03:15
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Nope, I still get the same error messages. I'm using IE 6.0. The url is....

http://img26.photobucket.com/albums/v77/hpesoj/Random/hamishBanner.jpg

And my user name is....

Hamish McHaggis

EDIT

Don't worry, zkat submitted it for me .

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Glad my banners are working okay now

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[Edit] Moved all to my next message.[End Edit]


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Quote: "The shortlist however, seems messed up. First I got 4 logos, and when checking it later it showed me 2 logos spread on 2 pages... ??"


The Short-List shouldn't be showing anything as the competition hasn't ended yet. o_O I think I know what the problem is though so I'll fix it.

Also, that other submitting problem is now fixed.


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I hope that you guys like pixel art!
It was all done by hand pixel by pixel. Except for the solid black fill, and the Navy-Blue fill.

It took a lot longer than anticipated. But it was fun to try!
(Being a purist I didn't bother to cut and paste, as I made the pattern on the fly from left to right)

4,547kb
(MS Paint)



I added a little bit more....


Last One!


Darn! I couldn't resist trying to improve it. Maybe I can win the MS-paint award!


Maybe this.. Is there a Halloween Award?



Exeat,
Do I need to submit for the short bus? I mean short list? Or do these postings count.


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Alright, that's my final entry. Exeat, will you remove the other ones please?

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^_^ This compo is taking up most of my life.

Anyways, here's a few more submissions.





Yup. And after i made those entries, i decided to give photoshop a rest, and I picked up the vastly more powerful MS paint, and made this wonderful banner.

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The Lynx, Done.

Quote: "Exeat,
Do I need to submit for the short bus? I mean short list? Or do these postings count."


Yes, it needs to be submitted to my page to be entered into the competition. This Friday, Rich will go through every banner on the page and select the ones he wants to be Short-Listed, after that, everyone will vote on the Short-Listed banners and the ones with the most votes will be selected.


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Exeat,

I get the shortbus award, my first two submissions i coppied the image tag link instead of th URL. please remove the two bone-head mistakes. Sorry.

I then-submitted successfuly the one with the url
http://img68.photobucket.com/albums/v208/zenassem/Forum_Banner2.gif

Thanks,
And sorry for the screw-up.

Sincerely,
Zenassem


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Yeah, I saw that so I'd already fixed your first one and removed the second.


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Alright, wait. I just realised my last entry was about 25kb too big. This one is 20k, it's as small as I could get it .



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That's under 10kb, and has barely any quality difference at all. o_O


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Ah, how'd you do that?

I got the one you saved uploaded, will you please remove #151 (old one)?

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Exeat,
You can delete my entries #160 & #161.


I replaced it with my improved #162.

Sorry for the trouble. I didn't think I was going to have any eyesight left to pixel them.

Sincerely
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Zen, you'll have to save that as a Jpeg or Gif and reupload it, the rules state only Jpegs and Gif's under 10kb are allowed. Once you've done that then I'll delete your current 3 in one hit.


Quote: "Ah, how'd you do that?

I got the one you saved uploaded, will you please remove #151 (old one)?"


Paint Shop Pro Will remove yours with Zen's later on.


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Blaahhhh,

Pixel on The Brain!

Fixed it.

Stupid M.S. Paint

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My latest entry. I think it's a winner .



http://ep.designex.net/Misc/Apollo/Dummy.php?Img=http://img26.photobucket.com/albums/v77/hpesoj/Random/leeOwnz.jpg

EDIT
Just to make sure, I'm not trying be insulting to Mike, just his picture was smaller and less stupid than Lee's .

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I reckon Lee will look more and more like Tony Blair as he gets older - it's a shame really, bad way to go!. Mike just looks like those guys you meet in the pub who only ever talk about football.


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Lmao, that ones classic!!


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