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Alice Anne Prewett (peskyalice) wrote in rp_tutorials,
@ 2009-05-12 08:53:00

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Hollow Art Ads
I've not yet seen this here and I thought I would share.

Hollow Art (which everyone might know for their icons) recently acquired a web site when they got too big for LJ. hollow-art.com features an RPG directory for advertisements and along with the directory, they feature a random game each time you click on a new page or refresh in the sidebar. Since many roleplayers use Hollow Art to search for PB's or icons, it's a handy place to host ads.

The directory itself can be found here and it can also be broken down by fandom, type, etc. for example: Harry Potter Fandom, Location: Livejournal, and femslash friendly.

Here's an example of what an ad looks like. As you can see it also lists the tags and the mini-image of your game banner that is features on the sidebar.

Instructions for creating an ad are here. You do need to sign-up for an account, but they're free and take about five minutes to create.

**Note: As seen in this post, mini-banners are useful for your games and the hollow-art ones are perfectly sized to use outside of the site as well.**

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	hammertech 2009-05-19 04:06 am UTC (link)
	I finally look through how it's set-up and that is really awesome. Thanks for sharing! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	peskyalice 2009-05-19 10:33 pm UTC (link)
	NP :) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	incarnat_e 2009-05-22 07:15 am UTC (link)
	Thanks! (Reply to this)

justforeverme
2009-08-25 07:00 am UTC (link)

Hi! As the person who approves all of the ads over there, I thought I'd add a couple of little points to this :-)

We get some great ads over there, but I'm always surprised that the number of people who submit ads that don't have the most obvious point in it - a link to your game! I'm sure that nobody who's come here would make that mistake, but so many people do!

Also, another thing that lots of people do is forget that we're not on lj/ij. A lot of ads have the lj/ij specific

justforeverme html tag in them, and of course, when you're off those sites, it just doesn't come up - so remember to change your links to the longer version.

Other than that, I try and approve as many as I can, and those I can't I'll get back to you with what needs to change. The other major issues we come across really are people putting in a feature graphics that's not the size we ask for - the site's set up to auto-resize things, but what we end up with there is a graphic that looks really, really bad, which isn't a good ad for your game, so usually I ask people to change it.

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