$500 Contest - Best Post Icons Wins

by admin Administrator

Posted: 18 years ago 22 replies

WEB DESIGN

Let's see how this will work out.

I'd like to run a contest for our Warrior designers who would like to participate.

Redesign the post icons, and make them more 'Warrior Like'.....

They need to be the same size. You can keep the same general meaning of the current ones or you can get creative and create totally new ones.

Winner pockets $500.00 US...

This contest will stay up about one week...

Thanks!

Allen

#$500 #contest #icons #post #wins

Karen Keyes 18 years ago

Sweet... what a deal Allen! While I'm not going to participate, maybe I can throw in a few suggestions that someone will pick up.

Some ideas:
- keep question mark icon so we can clearly pick out questions in the threads
- a capital T enclosed in a circle, meaning to represent a TIP thread
- keep the exclamation mark symbol, to mark a thread as important or urgent
- a $ sign symbol (enclosed in a circle?), to represent a thread specifically about making $
- better thumbs up/down images
- make the icons look more like the Warrior "theme", ie utilizing WF colors?
- an icon that sets a post a part as an "announcement"
- an icon that sets a post a part as something for "free"

If I think of anything else I'll reply... good luck all! Thanks for making this community a fun place to spend some time Allen!

Karen
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- Michael Silvester 18 years ago
  
  Allen, Dont Listen to Karen...She Is Addicted To Vegemite!
  
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imb 18 years ago

Sounds cool Allen, can you provide the images of the button set which you like to have customized?
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- admin Administrator 18 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by imb
  
  Sounds cool Allen, can you provide the images of the button set which you like to have customized?
  
  Click on post new thread in this forum and you will see them, they are called the Post Icons...
  
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  admin Administrator 18 years ago
  
  Karen I was also thinking it would be cool to have a $ sign :-)
  
  And I like the lightbulb as well...
  
  This will be a tough competition because as far as I can tell it's not easy to create really good images this small...
  
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  imb 18 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by admin
  
  Click on post new thread in this forum and you will see them, they are called the Post Icons...
  
  Oh the smileys and the signs.
  
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  Karen Keyes 18 years ago
  
  Vegemite is gooooood... and don't let any non-Australians tell you any different! Can we have an icon for that? hehe...
  
  I'm no graphics artist but I think by creating vector images one can make some pretty sweet icons.
  
  I missed the light bulb, that's good to keep of course to represent an idea.
  
  PS: Allen will you consider posting a reference to this thread in the main forum, in case some talented designers just don't know about this thread yet?
  
  Good luck all!
  
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  e-mail2u 18 years ago
  
  Ok here is my first attempt, they are 16x16 pixels just like your originals.
  
  use this link to view all 16
  
  http://www.e-mail2u.net/blog/wp-cont...mage/comp1.jpg
  
  Hope you like Allen
  
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  Asher 18 years ago
  
  Sounds interesting! I'm in! When's the deadline for this?
  
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  e-mail2u 18 years ago
  
  Ok here they are with out the link, just tested in the test forum to see if it worked.
  
  hope you like allen
  
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  Asher 18 years ago
  
  Here are my icon submissions... I'll add them as I finish them.
  
  Done: Angry, Exclamation, Lightbulb, Arrow, Question
  
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  Asher 18 years ago
  
  I can only attach 5 images at one time, so I'll have to use multiple posts to submit all the icons.
  
  Here's batch number 2! ==> Smile, Talking, Red Face, Thumbs Up and Thumbs Down
  
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  Karen Keyes 18 years ago
  
  Geoff great contribution, yet I think the icons are difficult to view. Any way to make them crisper? I see where you're going with the WF in the icons though.
  
  Asher.. I must say, those are already a nice improvement over the existing icons - I like!
  
  Wonder how much competition you guys will get over the next week.. will be interesting to follow this thread!
  
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  Amanda K. Jones 18 years ago
  
  Ugh--yet another distraction I need to deal with! Oh well, can't let this opportunity pass me by. Do we just post our submission to this thread or do you want us to email them somewhere?
  
  =^..^=
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  Asher 18 years ago
  
  Thanks Karen! I'm glad that you like the icons! It took me some effort to make the icons because if the icons were used, I'd like for them to look good! As you can see, the time in between the posts are quite lengthy cause it's quite challenging to come up with good icons!
  
  And *gasp* Amanda! A certified Photoshop Nerd! I'm going to have to make a run for the money! Heh. And wow, the pictures that you've made in your profile are excellent! Looks like you've been making lots of money making great graphics already!
  
  Edit: Added Wink and Cool
  
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  e-mail2u 18 years ago
  
  Ok i've lost sleep over this one perks of being an aspie i suppose. Only made one so far but will work on the rest
  
  here goes.......had to get it in just incase some one else thought of it.
  
  enjoy more to come....
  
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  Dan C. Rinnert 18 years ago
  
  Here is my entry.
  
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  e-mail2u 18 years ago
  
  thanks for the comment Karren,
  
  when dealing with 16 x 16 pixels it can be quite hard to put a lot of detail in, problem solved with the last addition...
  
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  Karen Keyes 18 years ago
  
  Hey Geoff I like that ... I'm not sure how animated icons will look on the front page though once you start seeing tons of them. But it's slick!
  
  Dan nice set of icons too!
  
  The competition is heating up guys and gals! :>
  
  Can't wait to see who Allen ends up choosing!
  
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  Asher 18 years ago
  
  Wow, Dan has got some very nice ones! And I don't know how to make animated Gifs =\
  
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- e-mail2u 18 years ago
  
  Ok here is some more animated ones,
  
  Will finish the rest of the current ones off and some new ones as well to follow.
  
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  admin Administrator 18 years ago
  
  Actually I'm going to end this early folks. I'm kind of in a hurry. A big thanks to those who participated.
  
  Dan C. Rinnert is the winner of this one... he created exactly what I was hoping for.
  
  Thanks to everyone!
  
  Allen
  
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