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Apply for listing in Winterfaire Grand Tour!

Katt Linden
Senior Member
Join date: 31 Mar 2008
Posts: 256
12-05-2008 15:27
How to apply to be listed in the Winterfaire Grand Tour.

Hi Everybody!

First, Thanks to Equinox Pinion for gently reminding me to write up this info and get it posted ;-)

Yes, I KNOW YOU ALL HATE READING DIRECTIONS but there are a few things you MUST do correctly if we are going to be able to find and process your submissions. I'll try to keep it simple.

To organize this tour, we are using the "Showcase" feature that resides in two handy places: in the Second Life Viewer (under the Search button) and on the Second Life website http://secondlife.com/showcase/.


First, you are going to prepare a picture. It must conform to the following guidelines!

1.) Go to your location and take a *beautiful* picture.
DO NOT superimpose any logos, text or captions on the picture. It should just be a plain picture.

2.) While you are there, create a SLURL [http://slurl.com/build.php]. Make it at the location where you want visitors to arrive! Save the SLURL for later use.

3.) Once you have your photo, CROP IT or re-size it to 500 pixels wide and 300 pixels high. If you try to submit a different shape, your application will be automatically rejected!!

***** Again, crop or resize to exactly 500 px wide X 300 px high! JPG

4.) Save as .jpeg. It MUST be .jpeg. It must be less than 100 KB.

5.) Post your picture on Flickr.




Now, fill out the form.

5.) Go here: https://secure-web16.secondlife.com/showcase/submissions.php

6.) Under the "Category" dropdown, you MUST select "Other"
Sub-category= "Miscellaneous"
********* Under Language, you MUST select "English" or it will go to the wrong person!!!

7.) Preface your Venue Title with "WF-" so we can find it. Like this:
"WF- My Fabulous Winter Wonderland"

8.) Paste in the SLURL you made earlier.

9.) Now fill in the forum with the url of your Flickr-hosted picture. It should look something like this:
[http://farm4.static.flickr.com/imagepath.jpg]

10.) Fill out the rest of the form, accept the agreement and Submit.


Now, if you've done all that correctly, your application will wing its way into our eager hands, and you will get a confirmation email.

You only get to make 2 submissions in any 30-day time period, so don't be signing up your friends! It's best if they do their own signups.

Please note that we do not guarantee that we will list your venue. If your entry does not fit into the guidelines discussed here: [/352/ad/295075/1.html, or if we just have too many entries, you many not be listed. We will do our best to give everyone a chance, but no guarantees.

Finally, if you are going to host special events at your build, we suggest you have a schedule sign at your landing point that also gives a notecard, so that visitors will know when to return for the fun. (Showcase is not designed for listing timed events, but it's great for getting people to your schedule sign!)

Thanks to all who enter, we look forward to seeing what you're building!

Dusty Linden
3ezo Belgar
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عزو
12-06-2008 09:44
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Trisha Osterham
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Join date: 6 Dec 2008
Posts: 1
Question
12-10-2008 16:32
What if its just a place of bussiness in a building can we send the logo of our bussiness instead of a picture of the place? Please let me know and if anyone out there knows how to get the word out about bussinesses I would love to hear from you. We started a photo studio called Unforgotten Moments and need to get the word out so please drop me a line and let me know.

Trisha Osterham
Rusalka Writer
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Join date: 12 Jun 2007
Posts: 314
12-10-2008 19:04
Picture is 450 x 250, picture is 80 kb, picture is rejected for being too tall and too wide. Lather, rinse, repeat. Suggestions welcome.
Mickey Heaney
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Join date: 20 Dec 2005
Posts: 51
12-11-2008 06:43
When we posted, it appeared that it had to be EXACTLY the dimensions listed. If you are off by even ONE, it looks like it will be rejected (at least that's my experience). Ruskala, if you want to drop the pic to my partner (Arielyn Docherty) inworld, she says she'll resize it and get it back to you when she gets home from work (around 4 pm EST).
Phoenixa Sol
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Join date: 31 Aug 2006
Posts: 315
12-11-2008 08:33
From: Mickey Heaney
When we posted, it appeared that it had to be EXACTLY the dimensions listed. If you are off by even ONE, it looks like it will be rejected (at least that's my experience). Ruskala, if you want to drop the pic to my partner (Arielyn Docherty) inworld, she says she'll resize it and get it back to you when she gets home from work (around 4 pm EST).


I already answered the question here:

/352/7f/296291/1.html#post2250766

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Rusalka Writer
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12-11-2008 10:04
Much as I like fish and help...

I had Adobe Illustrator make the image EXACTLY 500 x 300, which removed the width problem. But I'm still being told that the height is wrong. I rechecked the image in Illustrator, and it said the "acceptable" image width is now 499.999, so I changed the height to 299.999. No joy, still rejected.
Dusty Linden
Administrator
Join date: 2 Apr 2008
Posts: 31
Clarifications
12-11-2008 14:20
Trisha, we are not looking for logos, advertisements or stores at this time. Here is a link to the post explaining the event, and what we are looking for.

/352/ad/295075/1.html

Somehow these threads got separated in the middle of the conversation... I recommend we all head back to the original threads under the "Further Conversations" category....

/352/7f/296291/1.html