Win $100 AND Get Paid In This Thread !

cj · 06-24-2004

Lindsay ... a couple of tips ...

1) nobody here cares about winning $100 so your title won't attract the right eyes. Better would have been "Designers, we need banners" ... "and the best one wins $100"

2) this isn't gfy ... stop thinking like a gfy webmaster when you post here!!!! do I have to slap you!??!?!?!? ;-)))))

3) never post the entire details of a contest in a thread ... especially the rules and other details below the rules. it makes the post too long and many won't read it. Break it into 2 steps. Intro on the board, further details on your site.

3) what are you going to do with the webmasters who design banners that you choose not to use? They won't be able to use them for anything else if they are built for your sites ... you might piss off a few designers if you don't choose their work and they've spent a lot of time on it!!

4) $10 per flash banner or fpa?!?!?!??! yeah right!! "Tell 'im ees dreamin" LOL

5) You said 'unlimited banners' ... I could make $500 this afternoon based on that rule ... and there won't be any you could reasonably reject. Be really really careful when you give webmasters that much rope ... they will hang YOU with it!!

6) What's the difference between static and animated in *your* definition? I can make a static banner, then animate the 'click here' to flash on and off and there's 2 banners - 1 static and 1 animated. are you only going to accept 1 and not both?

7) are you giving anyone the raw psd files for the sites? how are designers supposed to get logos for the sites? cut them out?!?!? how annoying ... at least provide some tools for the designers or the banners will be shit and it won't be the designers fault.

with all that said though Lindsay, don't get me wrong ... this is an excellent idea - been thinking about a similar thing for months. its a great way to get a lot of cheap banners into your program quickly while generating some promotion. I just don't think your guidelines are very reasonable or fair ... you haven't given the designers many specifics, and knowing designers like I do many will waste a lot of time doing something which you will probably choose not to use because they interpreted what you wanted incorrectly.

Keep us posted how this goes, good job & excellent idea

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06-24-2004	#2
cj Members Want to see your own Advertising Here! Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Down Under Posts: 5,202	Lindsay ... a couple of tips ... 1) nobody here cares about winning $100 so your title won't attract the right eyes. Better would have been "Designers, we need banners" ... "and the best one wins $100" 2) this isn't gfy ... stop thinking like a gfy webmaster when you post here!!!! do I have to slap you!??!?!?!? ;-))))) 3) never post the entire details of a contest in a thread ... especially the rules and other details below the rules. it makes the post too long and many won't read it. Break it into 2 steps. Intro on the board, further details on your site. 3) what are you going to do with the webmasters who design banners that you choose not to use? They won't be able to use them for anything else if they are built for your sites ... you might piss off a few designers if you don't choose their work and they've spent a lot of time on it!! 4) $10 per flash banner or fpa?!?!?!??! yeah right!! "Tell 'im ees dreamin" LOL 5) You said 'unlimited banners' ... I could make $500 this afternoon based on that rule ... and there won't be any you could reasonably reject. Be really really careful when you give webmasters that much rope ... they will hang YOU with it!! 6) What's the difference between static and animated in your definition? I can make a static banner, then animate the 'click here' to flash on and off and there's 2 banners - 1 static and 1 animated. are you only going to accept 1 and not both? 7) are you giving anyone the raw psd files for the sites? how are designers supposed to get logos for the sites? cut them out?!?!? how annoying ... at least provide some tools for the designers or the banners will be shit and it won't be the designers fault. with all that said though Lindsay, don't get me wrong ... this is an excellent idea - been thinking about a similar thing for months. its a great way to get a lot of cheap banners into your program quickly while generating some promotion. I just don't think your guidelines are very reasonable or fair ... you haven't given the designers many specifics, and knowing designers like I do many will waste a lot of time doing something which you will probably choose not to use because they interpreted what you wanted incorrectly. Keep us posted how this goes, good job & excellent idea