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I know there were some comments earlier (before this PM) about the
banners. I think a lot of people not involved in the awards do not
know what "The Lothlorien Award" means - "Elves - First Prize" makes a
lot more sense.

So maybe the banners could say "Elves - First Place" instead of "The
Lothlorien Award"? The entries for first place should still be
Lothlorien themeed and people could even describe the award they won
as "the Lothlorien Award" if they liked. But the banner space should
be dedicated to the phrase that people will most easily recognize, I
think.

Marta

No. It's still the Lothlorien Award. Viv did a big, big job adding a bar
under each banner telling what category and what place it was. And
subcategory! So not only will a The Lothlorien Award banner mean
Elves--First Place, but Elves--Drabble--First Place, or whatever. Thanks,
Viv!

How we can do that in the future? Either we need another volunteer with the
know-how or we need the winners to add that. Hmm...but I liked that the bar
was uniform even though I don't want the banners to be.

I'm not sure what to do there. It would be asking a lot for artists to make
seventeen of each banner. Especially when we don't know the subcategories
until after Nomination Season is over.

--Ainaechoiriel
MEFA Admin and Founder

"This evil cannot be concealed by the power of the Elves," Elrond said, "for
it is Windows-compatible, and freeware at that." --H.F.

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Blog: http://www.ainaechoiriel.blogspot.com



-----Original Message-----
From: Marta [mailto:MartaL0712@netscape.net]
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 7:14 PM
To: MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [MEFAwards] PM - fanart



I know there were some comments earlier (before this PM) about the banners.
I think a lot of people not involved in the awards do not know what "The
Lothlorien Award" means - "Elves - First Prize" makes a lot more sense.

So maybe the banners could say "Elves - First Place" instead of "The
Lothlorien Award"? The entries for first place should still be Lothlorien
themeed and people could even describe the award they won as "the Lothlorien
Award" if they liked. But the banner space should be dedicated to the phrase
that people will most easily recognize, I think.

Marta





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> No. It's still the Lothlorien Award. Viv did a big, big job adding

a bar

> under each banner telling what category and what place it was. And
> subcategory! So not only will a The Lothlorien Award banner mean
> Elves--First Place, but Elves--Drabble--First Place, or whatever.

Thanks,

> Viv!

Thanks, Viv, from me, too. Sorry if I wasn't clear - I was suggesting
this for *next* year. (I'll try to be clearer in the future, but all
my suggestions are for next year, not this year.)

> How we can do that in the future? Either we need another volunteer

with the

> know-how or we need the winners to add that. Hmm...but I liked that

the bar

> was uniform even though I don't want the banners to be.
>

Well, I'm sufficiently reluctant not to volunteer a year in advance. ;
-) Beside,s, I don't know how to do it (though I suppose I could
learn.

Having "Elves - First Place" would be a good failsafe (IMO) in case we
didn't have someone to add the bar. Also, it would make less work for
Viv or whomever - s/he would not have to add any bars to the main
category banners, only the subcategory ones.

Marta

--- In MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com, "Marta" <MartaL0712@n...> wrote:

>
> > How we can do that in the future? Either we need another

volunteer with the know-how or we need the winners to add that.
Hmm...but I liked that the bar was uniform even though I don't want
the banners to be.

> >

Greetings all ~

Please pardon me sticking my nose in out of lurkage, but I thunk a
wee thought. As someone who occasionally tinkers in image graphics
on her handy, dandy Paint Shop Pro, I wondered ... When accepting
next year's banner contestant entries, could it be specified somehow
that each banner should have a blank bar left at the bottom? Then
when winners are selected and banners need to be tailored for
specific awards, the artists themselves could add the wording.
Organizers could even specify what font would be used, picking a
common font type that most image-manip programs would have.

Or perhaps just have each entrant include the aforesaid blank strip
at the bottom, and 'hire' someone to go through, afterwards, and put
on the appropriate label for each award. Or 'hire' a couple
someones ...

*scratches head* Dang, that sounds like work, no matter how I twist
it. Anywho, I mainly wondered if requesting entrants to make their
banner entries with a blank place for the lettering might at least
cut down on a little of the work ...

Think I'll slink away now, in hopes someone else can pluck something
of use from my mumbling! :-D
Cheers ~

Erin

Good idea. Now if I could just figure out why my other computer (the one
that is my web server) won't get on the network anymore.....

--Ainaechoiriel
MEFA Admin and Founder

"This evil cannot be concealed by the power of the Elves," Elrond said, "for
it is Windows-compatible, and freeware at that." --H.F.

http://gabrielle.sytes.net/mefa The Middle-Earth Fanfiction Awards
Blog: http://www.ainaechoiriel.blogspot.com



-----Original Message-----
From: erin_hobbit_ofbt [mailto:tgatwater@gbis.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 9:57 PM
To: MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [MEFAwards] Re: PM - fanart

--- In MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com, "Marta" <MartaL0712@n...> wrote:
>
> > How we can do that in the future? Either we need another
volunteer with the know-how or we need the winners to add that.
Hmm...but I liked that the bar was uniform even though I don't want the
banners to be.
> >



Greetings all ~

Please pardon me sticking my nose in out of lurkage, but I thunk a
wee thought. As someone who occasionally tinkers in image graphics
on her handy, dandy Paint Shop Pro, I wondered ... When accepting
next year's banner contestant entries, could it be specified somehow
that each banner should have a blank bar left at the bottom? Then
when winners are selected and banners need to be tailored for
specific awards, the artists themselves could add the wording.
Organizers could even specify what font would be used, picking a
common font type that most image-manip programs would have.

Or perhaps just have each entrant include the aforesaid blank strip
at the bottom, and 'hire' someone to go through, afterwards, and put
on the appropriate label for each award. Or 'hire' a couple
someones ...

*scratches head* Dang, that sounds like work, no matter how I twist
it. Anywho, I mainly wondered if requesting entrants to make their
banner entries with a blank place for the lettering might at least
cut down on a little of the work ...

Think I'll slink away now, in hopes someone else can pluck something
of use from my mumbling! :-D
Cheers ~

Erin









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--- In MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com, "Ainaechoiriel" <mefaadmin@e...>
wrote:

> Good idea. Now if I could just figure out why my other computer

(the one that is my web server) won't get on the network anymore.....

>
> --Ainaechoiriel
> MEFA Admin and Founder

Does that have something to do with why I can't get the banners page
to come up?
http://gabrielle.sytes.net/mefa/AwardsBanners.html
"Cannot find server - The page cannot be displayed"

I know you are incredibly busy and have about a thousand other things
tugging at you - and that's just in regards to the MEFAs! But I
wondered if I missed the banners being moved or some other notice.
Please forgive me being a pain ... You have done SO much incredible
work on this whole awards, and I can truthfully say the success of it
did wonders towards making me feel good about fandom contests
again! :-)

*slinks back into lurkage*

~ Erin

Yep, that was why. Should be back up in a few minutes.

That "never throw a network card out" thing has saved me twice now.

--Ainaechoiriel
MEFA Admin and Founder

"This evil cannot be concealed by the power of the Elves," Elrond said, "for
it is Windows-compatible, and freeware at that." --H.F.

http://gabrielle.sytes.net/mefa The Middle-Earth Fanfiction Awards
Blog: http://www.ainaechoiriel.blogspot.com



-----Original Message-----
From: erin_hobbit_ofbt [mailto:tgatwater@gbis.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 10:54 PM
To: MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [MEFAwards] Re: PM - fanart



--- In MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com, "Ainaechoiriel" <mefaadmin@e...>
wrote:

> Good idea. Now if I could just figure out why my other computer

(the one that is my web server) won't get on the network anymore.....

>
> --Ainaechoiriel
> MEFA Admin and Founder

Does that have something to do with why I can't get the banners page to come
up?
http://gabrielle.sytes.net/mefa/AwardsBanners.html
"Cannot find server - The page cannot be displayed"

I know you are incredibly busy and have about a thousand other things
tugging at you - and that's just in regards to the MEFAs! But I wondered if
I missed the banners being moved or some other notice.
Please forgive me being a pain ... You have done SO much incredible work on
this whole awards, and I can truthfully say the success of it did wonders
towards making me feel good about fandom contests again! :-)

*slinks back into lurkage*

~ Erin







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