Hi All
As some winning authors have had trouble receiving the email
notifications we sent, I wanted to repeat the information in the email
about award banners.
This year, we have two kinds of banners:
1) We have a set of pre-made banners for each place (First, Second,
Third and Honorable Mention) in each subcategory (such as Times: Post
Ring War and Beyond: General). You can find these banners at our
photobucket account at
http://www.photobucket.com/mefa09w, password:
aelfwine. You can use these immediately, either by linking directly to
the banner at the MEFA photobucket or by downloading the banner and then
uploading it to your usual image hosting site. Use the [cat] tags listed
down the left hand side of the page to help you find the banners for
each subcategory.
2) We also have general winners banners that have space to be customized
with the place and subcategory for your story. Use the character [ch],
format [fm], miscellaneous [ms], place [pl], race [rc] and times [tp]
tags to find banners that suit your story, or browse all of a particular
artist's banners by using the [ar] tag.
Authors may download and customize banners themselves (or ask a friend
to do so!) or may ask one of the volunteers who've kindly agreed to help
to customize it for them. To make a request to have a banner customized,
please go to the post at the mefas lj at
http://community.livejournal.com/mefas/174466.html and follow the
directions in the post. Please follow the directions *exactly*, in order
to make the task as easy as possible for our customizers, who are very
generously providing their time to help with this part of the awards.
Some of our artists are also willing to customize the nomination banners
they made to turn them into winners banners - see the post at the mefas
lj for details of which artists are making this offer and where you can
find their banners.
Please note that we only guarantee to fulfil banner customization
requests made *before 20 January*.
Have fun choosing your banners from the very lovely choice we have this
year!
Tanaqui
The MEFA Team