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Re: Banners and summaries
« Reply #30 on: July 14, 2008, 06:15:35 AM »

Yup,

I agree with Julilly.

I would just go with this:

The third book of The Backstreet Romance Series, and the saga continues. This time, the boys are about to embark on a journey of recording the Black & Blue album. In the stress of getting everything in order, the boys experience a little stress in their own personal lives.

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Re: Banners and summaries
« Reply #31 on: July 14, 2008, 09:07:08 AM »

I'm going to third this.  The first paragraph that Mare posted would be fine for a summary.  The rest of it could go into a prologue, if you want to summarize where your couples stand at the start of the story.
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Re: Banners and summaries
« Reply #32 on: July 14, 2008, 09:53:50 AM »

I agree with you three, too.  I know I don't do a ton of reading on the site, but if I see a summary that long, I'm immediately turned off.  It's like a movie preview that gives away WAY too much of the movie.  I think keeping it short and to the point is going to draw more readers in.

And, like Julie said, I think a prologue can serve as a good place to summarize what's new with each of the individual couples.  :)
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Re: Banners and summaries
« Reply #33 on: July 28, 2008, 11:15:48 PM »

Okie dokie guys just letting you know that as of august 1st any banner on the recent stories list that's over 600 pixels wil be removed by moi. I think i've given everyone enough time to make changes but just giving you a final warning.

I really mean it. If you are over by even 1 pixel i'm deleting your banner so check! Sorry i'm being an uber banner nazi but i'm in Rambo Gizmo mode right now!

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Re: Banners and summaries
« Reply #34 on: July 29, 2008, 09:23:28 AM »

One more thing just in case you guys didn't see it on the main AC site front page. Chaos is doing an upgrade tonight so any new submissions or reviews will not be working. Just giving you a heads up so we don't get a ton of "why is the site not working" emails lol

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Re: Banners and summaries
« Reply #35 on: July 29, 2008, 09:38:25 AM »

Yay upgrades! Now if only Chaos would come back and talk with us. :(
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Re: Banners and summaries
« Reply #36 on: July 29, 2008, 12:28:48 PM »

He would be he hates you all! :P

lmao i'm just kidding. Maybe someday soon. Right now he's without internet at home. That's why he's upgrading tonight. He'll be doing it from work.
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Re: Banners and summaries
« Reply #37 on: July 29, 2008, 07:00:40 PM »

Awe, poor Chaos. I know how much that predicament sucks. lol
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Re: Banners and summaries
« Reply #38 on: August 01, 2008, 09:18:01 AM »

okay siggy rules have been revised. I keep posting these for everyone to see:

 Revised from before: If you want to have an image in your siggy it must not be more than 300 pixels in size. For instance 150x150 would work (Avatar sized) For text you can't go over 500 characters.

We have the right to delete your images if you do go over the 300 pixel mark.
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Re: Banners and summaries
« Reply #39 on: August 12, 2008, 02:31:01 AM »

600 pixels??? *confused look n goes to check my fics* How do you know what pixels are? My siggy on here is 300 by 243....

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Re: Banners and summaries
« Reply #40 on: August 12, 2008, 05:37:32 AM »

^ the 300 by 243 are the pixels so if you add 300 to 243 that equals 543. You want your pixels to not be more than 300 which means your siggy picture should be something like 100 x 100 or 150 x 150.

Hope that helped.
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Re: Banners and summaries
« Reply #41 on: August 12, 2008, 11:30:56 PM »

^ the 300 by 243 are the pixels so if you add 300 to 243 that equals 543. You want your pixels to not be more than 300 which means your siggy picture should be something like 100 x 100 or 150 x 150.

Hope that helped.

Oye vey. Lol.

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Re: Banners and summaries
« Reply #42 on: August 13, 2008, 02:25:41 AM »

Do you know just how small 150 by 150 is??? My avatar is going to be bigger than my freaking siggy!!!!!!!

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Re: Banners and summaries
« Reply #43 on: August 13, 2008, 05:12:24 AM »

Which it should be lol
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Re: Banners and summaries
« Reply #44 on: August 13, 2008, 06:30:07 AM »

Do you know just how small 150 by 150 is??? My avatar is going to be bigger than my freaking siggy!!!!!!!

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Except that avatars are traditionally 100x100 so it would be about 100 pixels smaller lol
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