2006-10-01 [Hedda]: My Croatian is a little rusty, but what do they say?
http://www.gameplay.hr/modules/mylinks/singlelink.php?cid=6&lid=31

"You can speak to people from the entire world, but I don't speak Japaneese?"

They have 180 clicks on the Elftown-link now. I wonder if they like if we get that up to 100... (Click on "Elftown")

2006-10-01 [Jitter]: I added link to my site some days ago :)

2006-10-01 [sequeena_rae]: I add a link every so often on my DA journal.

2006-10-01 [Jitter]: :)

2006-10-01 [mondo86em]: I haven't updated my personal site in over a yr ... maybe I should lol.

2006-10-01 [Asalli_Angel]: how do you link? me no proffesional AT all.

2006-10-01 [silent_voice]: Have a look at my dad, its surprising, type in Robert Lunnon. He is the top ten for Solaris and that sort of thing.

2006-10-02 [Cia_mar]: i was so surprised when i found my screen name out there as much as i did on a search one day!!! and it wasn't just on elftoen either!!!!!!!!some people were quoting me on other sites from what i had said in elftown!!!

2006-10-02 [silent_voice]: thats what dad has

2006-10-02 [akhirah]: woa, my myspace is there? *blush*

2006-10-02 [Jitter]: If I try and google my screenname I will come up with a loverly book ;P

2006-10-02 [Faery Rule]: im highly confused on how this works can someone plz explain?

2006-10-02 [font]: If you have a website, add a link to elftown.eu from it. Then have your website submitted to google. Then wait. :P

2006-10-02 [jsun]: Well elftown has been linked to my website for quite awhile but it's also on my newer more popular site. Let's hope that I climb those ratings. The site's only been online for a month now. (www.drawfantasy.com)

2006-10-02 [Hedda]: [jsun]: You often get much better effect if you link it from / than from some sub-page. It's better to have some small links on the first page, and then the more explaining links on the link-page.

You frontpage is broken though. Everything to the left is overwriting each other (I think this is because I don't have exactly the font needed and my text is therefore bigger than your layout expect). I suggest that you at all cost avoid using width and height on boxes. Use margins and percent instead. Write <td class=TWENTY> and then in the stylesheet (See <URL:/> for how to write the stylesheet in the page): TWENTY { width:20%;}

Seems like you're using "BlueVoda" to make the page. Well, either you do it wrong or that program sucks. I think both. Get a texteditor like Emacs and write correct HTML by hand instead.

2006-10-02 [Hedda]: And it usually takes at least 3-6 months to get rated by Google. So this competition is late out. But don't worry. There will be one next year too!

2006-10-02 [Faery Rule]: i think ill wait until next year

2006-10-02 [font]: Well "Googlebot last successfully accessed your home page on Jun 13, 2006" So even with a website submitted it still might take a while for Googlebot to crawl again.

2006-10-03 [Hedda]: About the: www.drawfantasy.com

Damn that site was tricky with all its absolute positions! I guess the only way to easily fix it is to make the boxes a little extra big so that the text always fit.

There is no problem with the absolute-positioned images on the top. The problem is the boxes with fixed size that text is forces into. And they can't be flexible because there are no columns. You need 1 or 2 tables, but it will not look perfect without some change.

2006-10-03 [jsun]: Thanks Hedda :) I'll go get to work on that now. This is the first I've heard of the text issue so hopefully it is a rather uncommon issue on my site so far. ---- Ok now I've got the text set to Times New Roman which should work for everybody. Didn't actually realize that Palitino Type was what I'd used and well,... that's just not as common :/  You were right about me using BlueVoda for the page but it does work nicely and friendly so long as you don't make little mistakes such as the text one I made. I'd say for a graphical site it's really nice but not really for an ergonomical type site. And... guess I'll try to make it next year :) I'll be here like always

2006-10-04 [Hedda]: It might be something that even if I have the same font, it's not exactly the same size. Which makes it not fit well.

2006-10-06 [Amerthyst]: can xale.deviantart.com be added?

2006-10-06 [sacred dragon]: how do u become a elftown gaurd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

2006-10-06 [Linderel]: Apply to the crew.

2006-10-06 [X2]: ïm gonna win this next year:D

2006-10-17 [Lothuriel]: Does this contest count for business as well or only personal websites?

2006-10-18 [Sunrose]: I think any website that you own and follows the rest of the criteria :)

2006-10-18 [Lothuriel]: Ok, thanks! =]

2006-10-18 [Hedda]: [Amerthyst]: What do you mean "added"? If it's on the web, then it's added. You just need a better rating from Google to win.

2006-10-25 [Blaithin]: http://www.wyrdjax.co.uk/index.html Now has a spiffy little Elftown button in the top left corner ^.^ It should be good advertising since the site has had over 20,000 hits I believe, since it was made in September.

2006-10-25 [Blaithin]: Woops not 20,000. I've got the official figures right here...
267862 since sept 8th. I think it's a good site for a link :)

2006-10-25 [Hedda]: Nice!

So far one person has clicked that link and that person is you. But I hope more will click later ;)

2007-01-02 [Hedda]: [Amerthyst] and http://www.geocities.com/father_tree/Main.html is in the lead now.
After that there are pages that don't load or are gone.
http://www.bifrostfantasy.com/join_us.shtml works though.

2007-02-14 [Hedda]: Gah! I missed this! Damn me who though I put a reminder about this.

I'll select the winners right now instead!

2007-02-14 [Hedda]: There! Should be fixed now!

2007-02-14 [Blaithin]: [Hedda] could you please put "An artistic as well as chat and internet radio linked site" For wyrdjax.co.uk Thanks :D

2007-02-20 [Amerthyst]: o.o

2007-05-02 [Hedda]: And the current status is that the last year's winner is still in top, but then there is:
http://www.bifrostfantasy.com/join_us.shtml
http://gargoylegoddess21.deviantart.com/
http://community.livejournal.com/elfchat/profile

2007-05-02 [Hedda]: Link more! Especially to our most useful wiki-pages.

2007-07-18 [Hedda]: Please note that the URL to Elftown has changed!

www.bifrostfantasy.com/join_us.shtml is still found in this search even though it has a wrong pointing link, so Google apparently sees them as the same link, but the elftown.eu is more guaranteed to work.

2008-11-12 [Hedda]: Update:
http://sanayasha1.deviantart.com/ <= That's how a Deviantart page should look like! With Elftown written all over it!

2009-01-31 [Hedda]: Here are the winners this year. I can't make the official announcement before Magnus is found or I give up though: 

http://sanayasha1.deviantart.com/
Which seems to be made by [Sana] (She has later made http://sanayasha2.deviantart.com/ which is less promoting...)

http://fantasytree.blogspot.com/2009/01/10-most-popular-fantasy-movies.html
Made by some Magnus:
http://www.blogger.com/profile/10909775666317533583
But I can't find him on Elftown. Anyone who knows?

Nice mentioning of Elftown on Elfwood:
http://abroenink.elfwood.com/profile.html
by [Anneke]

Just outside the top 3 (Might make it unless I find Magnus):
http://www.chimericfire.com/tag/advice/
[HiddenFire]

2009-06-22 [pixish]: "§3 The prize will be a link to your webpage in the calendar-notes. That link will be there for the entire year of 2007!"

2007 is a long time ago now :p

2009-06-22 [Hedda]: Ouch! I missed to run this contest this year. That sucks!

I guess I have to run it for the summer now.

2010-10-13 [windowframe]: *prod**prod*

2010-10-17 [Hedda]: Google has messed up this contest :(

But it seems to be working again, so I'll see what it says in January. Michael Thurston and Michael Smith seems to be the only two that works.

2011-04-03 [windowframe]: *cough*

2012-02-06 [Hedda]: I'll close this.