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Off the warherald.

Guild Beta Contest:

So your guild didn't luck into an invite to the first wave of Guild Beta? Were you trapped in a vacation at your aunt's house in the middle of nowhere with no internet connection and couldn't get your guild application in on time? Well here's your chance to increase your odds! Starting today we'll be running several contests to give you guilds a chance to secure a spot on the Guild Beta Phase 2 list. The first of the contests (more will be added over the coming weeks) will be a simple and straightforward Best Guild Website contest. The rules are as follow:

Your guild website must be WAR themed, make use of those fansite kits we provide!
If you were already selected for phase 1 of Guild Beta, you may not win.
The top 10 websites, based on the votes cast by myself and James will receive a place on the phase 2 list and a banner to display proudly on their guild site.

Voting will be done by going through all entries and ranking our favorite 10, giving 10 points to #1 down to 1 point for #10. After that all points will be added, and the 10 highest totals will be declared the winners.
We will be looking at overall appearance, functionality, WAR-ness (yeah, I made that up, but you know what I meant), and just general coolness.
NA based guilds only please. (This does include all regions not handled by GOA, such as Oz, NZ, Asia, CSA, Canada, etc.)
Same as with Phase 1 of Guild Beta, the number of slots the guilds receive in phase 2 will be determined by overall guild size.
Contest will end on Friday, September 14th at 5pm EST.

Winners will not be posted but will be contacted individually, same as the guilds for Phase 1, it will be up to them whether or not they want to announce their good fortune to the world.
Entries should be Emailed to war-community AT mythic DOT ea DOT com with the subject line: Guild Beta Website Contest Entry

Marroc/Karma start making our site look SEXY. haha

What can we do to the site that will make it different from all the others. Something that makes people say "oh ha thats a smart little thing there". or maybe or site is fine just how it is.

I am all up for making the site look sexy and getting rewarded for it... maybe a divine intervention will come into place and I will think up of something

Lets BRainstrom then on some ideas! =)

Some ideas I have:

1) Animated Link Buttons. Maybe an Orc shouting a warcry, or swinging an axe on a stunties neck.

2) I don't know how to incorporate it. Maybe between page loads. Slip that clip of the Chaos smashing the Warriorpriests head from the official trailer in. Example would be: you load the page and are on the Home page. you click cool animated "Forums" link and BAM! a hammer is commin down on your screen and SPLAT! and forum page shows.

3) WARify the over all look of the page a little more. As much as a fan as I am of simple color schemes (no joke I really dig simple looks) maybe we can steal some of the SS/Concept Art/Wallpapers available to us to make it more fancy. First things that come to mind for me are Orc Huts, or some of the concept art of the Chaos city. I really dig the one of the front gates with the big glowing Eyes above it.

4) Also it might help if we dedicate some forums space to the latest say 3 or 4 WARheralds, so anyone can go Get directly to them if need be. I also really like our WARhammer videos page. Maybe if we fill it to the brim with any videos we may be missing and clean it up a little. would be a nice touch.

There are just a few ideas that came to mind off the bat. I am really not good at throwing together HTML or flash sites or anything like that but I would be willing to help in anyways i could with finding material to use and the such..

Anyone else got some good ideas?