[Michael]

Article Competition! - Sponsered by CommuneZoom

Well it is now time for our first big competition to get underway! Our first competition is based around articles, essentially this competition will be lasting until the end of this month. October, finishing on the 1st of November. In order to participate in this CommuneZoom endorsed program all you need to do is post an Article. There are no limits to the amount of articles that you submit within the Articles Competition area. After the time period has ended, on the 1st of November voting shall begin for your favorite article, you may only vote for one article, and all articles which have been posted within this time period will be submitted for the vote. Depending on the amount/success of the competition there may be additional rounds of voting to narrow down the articles into a fairer final vote.

Notes: Your article needs to be related to general theme of The Staff Lounge, e.g., forum administration. For example staff management, choosing appropiate webhosts, site promotion, server side optmization and so forth would all be credible articles.

Prizes:

For those interested the prizes will be as follows:

• 1st Place: FREE 6 months Webhosting package with CommuneZoom, the package will contain 500 MB's of webspace, and 10 GB's of bandwidth to give you plenty of space to allow your forum to thrive. This amount of space and bandwidth ensures your forum can function perfectly with thousands of registered members and hits, you are also allowed to have the following:

• Unlimited Sub-Domains
• Unlimited FTP Accounts
• Unlimited POP3 Accounts
• Unlimited MySQL Databases
• Unlimited Parked Domains
• Unlimited Add-on Domains

• 2nd Place: FREE domain registered under your name, the domain can be completely under your control and customization, you can have any domain extention of your choice, .com, .net etc ... and will be registered for two years.

• 3rd Place: FREE advertising on The Staff Lounge, your link will be displayed in random rotation with our Google advertisements and other sponsers giving you lots of free hits and attraction.

Overview:

• Competition starts now.
• Competition ends 31st of October.
• Voting begins November the 1st.
• Voting ends November the 8th.
• After voting, the top three articles will receive prizes.

Good luck to all!

Ideas for Articles?

• SEO Work
• Link Popularity
• Search Engine Submissions
• DMOZ
• Running A Forum
• Building A Forum
• Running Promotions
• Finding Sponsors
• Generating Traffic
• How To Successfully Launch A Forum
• Moderators Manual
• Choosing and Managing Staff
• Troubleshooting
• Using InvisionFree

[Hector]

Question. Article is about? Any specific boundaries?

~HM-UNDERGROUND

[+ Ryan]

Originally Posted By: HM-UNDERGROUND Question. Article is about? Any specific boundaries? ~HM-UNDERGROUND

Everything that pertains to the Articles already there" Staff, Promotion, Building, etc

[Michael]

Updated with a notes section to answer that quiry HM.

Notes: Your article needs to be related to general theme of The Staff Lounge, e.g., forum administration. For example staff management, choosing appropiate webhosts, site promotion, server side optmization and so forth would all be credible articles.

[Woody.]

Do articles we have already posted count?

[Hector]

So this article is basically a review of TSL? Sorry, I'm kinda lost, don't mind me.

I'm a great writer, but choosing something to write about is not my strong point.

~HM-UNDERGROUND

[ShinLi]

Do articles we have already posted count?

That would be unfair, at least I think that's unfair ^^

[//Aneurysm\\]

Omg I Must Win!

[+ Ryan]

Originally Posted By: Hector So this article is basically a review of TSL? Sorry, I'm kinda lost, don't mind me. I'm a great writer, but choosing something to write about is not my strong point. ~HM-UNDERGROUND

Nooo. Anything that pertains to helping others make sites. And the most articles this month wins the prizes.

[Hector]

I doubt I could do that. Damn, count me out of this one than. Maybe next time.

[+ Ryan]

Yeah I'm sitting out also. I am having a major case of writer's block, and I really don't need to take any prizes away from others. =P

[Tycho]

I'll write some, I doubt I'll win though, xD

[//Aneurysm\\]

Boy, I see that my video game reviews are really comming in handy

[+ Ryan]

Originally Posted By: //Aneurysm\\ Boy, I see that my video game reviews are really comming in handy

Indeed they are. You are doing an excellent job with them.

[//Aneurysm\\]

I can't submitted them though can I?

My article is decent....I just have trouble thinking things up...everythings been covered really.