I think that if it's an animation, it'd look best if it's looped. That's just my opinion.

Right I meant for one iteration. A two minute long iteration just wouldn't make sense.

Nice logos Szupie, but I think I mislead you. The fourth banner, I think, is still supposed to advertise computinghost.com, but be designed to be placed on astahost and trap17. NilsC, if you could clarify this it would be helpful. I also recommend making the gray text a little lighter, it's too hard to read.

I ought to download the Flash because making the animated gifs is taking too darn long . So right now, you have the title in the bag.

Oh... "For use on trap17.com and astahost.com", now I get it... Well, back to work! The drawing of the logos for astahost and trap17 was tedious, though...

I'm sure they were, and if you don't mind, I'd like to use the astahost/trap17 ad on my site here as a hosted by ad.

the first 3 banners is supposed to be for advetising computinghost.com anywhere. You should make the banner as a sales pitch, or a way of promoting the paid hosting, tell about the quality. (use your own imagination )

the fourth is to use as a footer on astahost & trap17 letting people know that the boards are hosted by computinghost.com


You can use your own slogan for the one to use on astahost and trap17 (So it don't have to match what is there)

szupie, nice banners..

Nils

NilsC, because gif is supported by more browsers without plugins than flash, I've been working on animated gifs for you. However, this is taking to long, so I'm going to do them in flash so I can them post them here(If I can ever get flash to do what I want, arrrgghhhh, fill can never works). I'm then going to finish the gifs, and since Spring Break is next week, I will have the gifs done by contest deadline as well, you may use whichever you want. Also, szupie, I still think you should make the gray text in the vertical banner a litlle lighter so it is readable.

Hmm... I was trying to go for a more professional look, with words that are subtle instead of flashy, distractive and annoying. I'll reply to the contest post with that version, see if you like it.

Much better szupie, the words being subtle was pointless if they were unreadable. Now they are still subtle, but readable.
l337 Nurse Pedestrian- The banner is noce, although a might simplistic. I would keep working on it.
To everyone else, I'm offering out helpful suggestions, so if you want to know how something looks, I'd love to take a look and offer constructive criticism. I'd appreciate it if when I get my first banner ideas up, someone would be willing to do the same. And if you have submitted a design, don't forget to keep track of the designs at trap17. Look at all designs being submitted, learn from them, and then change your old one or make a new one. But always keep every version you make, just in case OpaQue likes an older version better.

Take your time, we should decide after april 1 or 15 not sure yet. I depends on the amount of entries. many entries, longer time

The more cross browser support, the better. Remember I don't do any graphics so I'm no use to answer this

Nils

Hmm, l337 Nurse Pedestrian, isn't that taken from a screenshot of computinghost's homepage?

Ok, I read the submitions on trap17, and they were all based on the theme of the computinghost site too. Hmm, was I supposed to do that also? Oops.