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May/June News Submission Contest
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Post Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 10:34 pm   
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Thought I would put up a Contest. Want to see the news become more active from users on the site.

I have a few Items to give away.

1. Bestilt
2. XFPS 360
3. XFPS 360 Pro

These prizes are from my reviews of these products that were supplied from Xcm, and Console Shop.

The contest is rather easy, and it will help out with news submissions. To be eligible I ask that you submit at least 5 news submissions. They have to be decent, and I'd like to see a little input from the submitter. Ie... not just copied and pasted from other news sources. Put a little spin on it, and your own personal views with it. Now if its just upcoming games or something along those lines, then comment on what games your looking for.

Here are a few news sources that I grab news from.

www.n4g.com
http://kotaku.com
http://xbox360.qj.net/
http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/
http://www.xboxscene.com/

Those are just a few, there are many great sites out there with news stories. Now you can grab the news directly from the site that puts it up, or you can go to the source they got it from and write it up yourself. Pulling the news from the source is prefered.

A few tips on submitting news. You will want to keep it straight forward and to the point. Include a few pictures if possible. If you talk about any product/game/company look thru our database and add links when submitting the story.

To submit news, on the top the tab that says interact, click that then select submit news.

Few commands that will help you out.

Use this to add links to your story.
<a href="http://www.direct link to story.com" target="blank" class="hqgreen11">http://www.Cleaned up link.com</a>

This part is for the direct link to the source <a href="http://www.direct-link-to-story/real-long-and-drawn-out.com"

This part is the link that will be shown http://www.Cleaned up link.com</a>. What you would like to do is clean up the long link, so you would want to make it just the main link to the source's site.

Use this tag to put in the news source.
<b><u>News-Source</b></u>:

So say that you got the story from www.360-hq.com/long-drawn-out-name

You want to put in the news source frist
<b><u>News-Source</b></u>:

Then stick in where you got the source from
<b><u>News-Source</b></u>: <a href="http://www.www.360-hq.com" target="blank" class="hqgreen11">http://www.360-hq.com</a>

Notice I just put the main page of the news source in the last field, instead of the drawn out link.

You also use that link to add links to the companies/products/games in our database as well.

If any of this confuses you, go ahead and ask, and I'll help you out.

When it comes to pictures you will want to edit the size of them. I usually go with 420x315. There is a great powertoy Microsoft put out to resize your images. It can be found here. Install it, then right click the image you want to resize and you will see the resize picture option. When you go to resize it click advanced, select custom, and input the custom size you would like.

Then when submitting your story you will see the upload image option. Click it browse to your picture and upload it. When you go to add your image in your news submission, I put a space between the top text and the bottom text of the picture to give it a nice break from the two. I recommend doing that as well.

Now if you have a rather large story, what you will want to do is, decide where to break up the story at, and put the rest into the extended text area. But before you do that, at the end of the text in the main window put <b>Click Read More To View The Whole Story</b>. When you do that, you will want to put your news source, links into the end of the extended text box.

The last step is to digg your story. Once you see your story on the main page, you will see the option to digg it. Go ahead and click the link, and if you don't have a digg username, go ahead and create one. Then digg your story. This helps draw in others that haven't seen the 360-hq site, and help expand the site.

Now this contest will run till the end of June, that way everyone has a chance to get in on it. Everyone that puts in their 5 will be in the drawing. Your name will be drawn at random.

Also I should have a few more prizes by the time this contest comes to an end, so there will be more winners and a few more prizes as well.

Good luck, and let the contest begin.


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Post Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 7:51 am   
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Please reply if you are interested in getting involved..
Great idea endless.. Keep up the great work bro.

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Post Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 7:55 am   
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i'm def. intrested!


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Post Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 3:06 pm   
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I'm getting right on it. Thanks for the great idea bro. Great way to attract new readers to our waters.
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Post Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 3:37 am   
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Hey hobbs, i sent one in. Be easy on me... hehe that was my 1st time sending in a news review, but I will get the hang of it & start really cracking down on the reviews! Razz


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Post Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 4:41 pm   
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Alright bro, 5 good news stories posted in less than 24 hours, whaddya think?? I tried to stick to the plan like you wanted and put my own personal spin on each story before and after, and included pics.

Hope you like them. Let me know what happens next.

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Post Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 5:13 pm   
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Just wait till the end of June. Thats when the contest is closed, and names drawn. Your the only one so far that has put up 5 stories. Your odds are looking good.

Btw good job, and thanks.


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Post Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 5:27 pm   
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End of june it is bro, and no probs with the stories, it's actually my civic duty, lol.
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Post Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 7:29 am   
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Come on members.. Get involved.. Its easy..
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Post Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 7:56 am   
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hehe hobbs... 2 left to go! But I want to keep doing it, I like helping out 360-HQ ! espically you hobbs, because I know how hard you did all this for the peeps that needed help out there on the consoles/ handhelds etc. I want to return the favor Smile


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