that could work..... :thumbsup

This is intense - GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE! :) Can't wait to see all these designs.

Cheers,
Matt

Hey we have a polls system up for voting.

http://www.aepolls.com

IP tracking so there can be no cheating.
Incoming hits are what counts the votes.
Image or text link that would direct to aepolls.com
and counts the vote and marks the IP as a counted vote.
Check it out let me know what you all think. :eek7

you'll need to hook up with JFPDude on this..... he's coordinating the details.

Any content providers wanna sponsor me.

I won't let you down. :thumbsup

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Wow seriously looking at those prizes man, if its "Winner Takes All" damn thats a lot of fun shit to have all at once.

If its split into "1st, 2nd, 3rd" then thats still cool, either way... it'll be fun.

I'd prefer voting on the board somehow... but without the ability to view the current results, if that is possible at all.
everybody with less than 50 posts (or everybody who didnt register before 15/5 maybe?) or so shouldnt be able to vote at all IMHO because you made it up as "The GFY Showdown".

that was my original intent..... to do the voting right here.
but..... there'd have to be some kinda special modifications to the vote or something to prevent viewing the results..... although, why is viewing them necessarily bad anyway? Only real problem I could see would be someone using multiple aliases to vote more than once.

People are easily swayed when they see what other people like.

true....

think so, too.

I'll give it a go as well.....who knows I might be able to beat the big guys with a nice little amateur site


Luke representing chilihost.com



Cheers!

Luke
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looking for a sponsor.... asian,ebony or exotic preferred :Graucho

anyone want to provide me with nice images to make a nice tour?

hit me up on icq 7525191

sabai representing:M Brothers Entertainment Intl

Amp put me down for this too, I'm in. :thumbsup

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Brian

God damit since this thread has become so F*** long. count me in! I almost only do mainstream corporate sites. But it will be fun !So I'm in ! :D

I am not sure if I can find time to join, if not. I might wanna be a judge if you need another one.

Look i don't want to be the only guy doing a flash site.. and i wouldn't push for it if it was some obscure plugin that was never used.. im sure we've all seen flash tours.. i've seen maybe 3 in the last week or so.. and it's not like shockwave or quicktime.. it's got 96% penetration.. the reason i brought it up is... really.. why are we doing this?.. it's not just to show off.. it's to work on a fake "dream job".. full scope, full creativity and have people see it.. html isn't the limits of what i can do as an information and interactive designer..

I know for a fact that there are a bunch of flash designers here..

HELLO!

back me up mofos!

:)

do i have to hunt you down on icq an invite you?

look if only 2 or 3 people want to do flash then cool.. don't offer any prizes.. even if im the only guy, i want to be able to show it off ok? have me in there but take my vote button away or something.. s'cool?.. maybe i'll enter a flat version for the comp..

Naughty does flash!.. c'mon!... *sigh* :)

Can we use a previous design?

I might be doing a little amateur site, just to be there. Flash will most definately be assisting me then :)

nope.... gotta be fresh.

no

and i vote flat only for the tours, flash music etc could easily sway user opinion and it isnt the industry standard... :2 cents:

good shit :) use the force naughty... we are not alone.. i can sense it....

it would be cool to have all the competitors icq on the showdown site...

you can put mine up

just like it could sway a surfer wanting to join.. can't have that... if you want the industry standard then we shouldn't be allowed to use photoshop.. there are far more notepad designed sites out there... whatever.. just gimme a place where i can do flash.. i can't even win the tv anyway im in australia...

I don't get pampered... not at all.

yeah 30 seconds+ of some lame flashturbation loading screen on a 56k really rocks with conversions, thats why so many people promote ten.com

and you honestly think thats the fault of flash and not the designer? flash is smaller than html if you know what you're doing.

go for it :]

<img src=http://popcornsex.com/350.gif>

well said....

just because the plugin is 96%, it's still not the industry standard bhuto..... you know this is true. You can't really compare a Flash site to a flat site.... they're 2 different animals.

I still personally vote flat only as well for the show.... why? because it keeps things level. Sure, I know... you can do some amazing shit with Flash. But you can also do some amazing shit with alot of other stuff too.... php, asp, coldfusion, shockwave, etc... this shouldn't be about what kind of tricky shit you can do with exotic programs. It's not a job interview.

It should be what you can do within the given guidelines and scope of the event.

I'm tempted to think that Flash would be okay if it was limited to graphical use only.... no audio, no programming, no tricks. But then there will be crying about that too....

either way, this Flash thing needs to be voted on and resolved here soon.... and I think the participating designers should be the ones to vote and decide.... either that or the officials need to get together and make a decision one way or the other on it.

But the 2 category thing isn't gonna work with only one set of prizes... so the Flash needs to either be lumped into the one big show, or given the thumbs down. Unless of course, the prize people wanna specify for "Best Flat Tour" or Best Flash Tour"..... and do the split vote thing, but that just seems like alot of unnecessary complication to me....

my vote goes to no Flash. If it's voted in, that's cool with me too. :2 cents: :winkwink:

:) im serious. i take the average size for a html splash page (around 110k-120k) and never go over it.. last flash splash i did was 70k.. i remember a thread where someone was talking about how impossible it was to get a nice design under 70k.. vectors.. mate.. vectors..... flash streams better.. the flash parts of html/fpas i do load first.

no doubt.... I've made some smokin' Flash stuff that had extremely small file sizes...

as i said.. take it out i don't mind.. as long as i can display it with everyone elses work. grey out the vote button.

we've got 25 designers in the lineup so far.... :thumbsup

http://www.aepolls.com/images/polls.gif

Here is how our poll system works
My coder drew it up to show how it works let me know what what you all think and if there should be any changes so we can use this thing for this shindig!

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contact him if you have any questions ICQ # 128496425

that works for me too...... :thumbsup

anyone else got something to add to this Flash issue?

Hey amp, count me in :thumbsup


Can someone out there donate some quality ebony content for the contest. Have a bunch, but it's crap quality, and don't think it would look so good.

i guess i see it as showing people what we're capable of.. i know im starting to sound whiney on the issue.. so as i've said.. take it out of prize contention.. someone said this is about "putting up or shutting up" i think that was imtimated earlier.. and since im always defending flash.. why not let me create one you guys can rubbish and say is too big, takes too long etc, etc??? :)
i won't be competing against you (with the flash)..