Magenta — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 07:25:21 +0000

demonhale;222308 wrote: or have them recreated by professionals like me...

Why pay someone for a logo when there are already so many good ones out there? I have a gallery of swooshes in 256 websafe colours, ready for future clients to add to their page. Put a dropshadow on it and Nike will never guess. ( Anyway, my job is to make websites, not solve client's legal problems. )

demonhale — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 09:52:12 +0000

or have them recreated by professionals like me...

Magenta — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 09:12:24 +0000

LOL. Perhaps in cases like that you should just create a new logo for them. Something simple, like golden arches or a swoosh.

Megan — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:06:37 +0000

Inkscape isn't in the league of Adobe Illustrator by any means but it should work just fine for you right now. It works fine for me right now actually!

Magenta;222256 wrote: OMG thank you for this advice!!!!! I know I seem a bit over-excited but I think it's solved a problem that's had me tearing my hair out!!!! I resized the text from a scanned business card as part of a header for a site but it ended up blurry and no matter what I fiddled with, it was never quite right. I'm going to give myself a crash course in vector graphics and have another go!

This is a really common problem in web design! You ask the client for their logo and they either don't have it at all or don't remember where it is or only have it as a small .gif. You ask who created it and they've lost track of the designer, or it was their wife with a bad photo editing program or something like that. What a pain!

Magenta — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 07:47:14 +0000

JeevesBond;222233 wrote: Good point! Give Inkscape a try, it's Free software and won't cost you a penny either!

Oooo, free stuff! I have Photoshop CS2 ( don't tell Demonhale ) but I think it would be worthwhile having a specialised vector graphics editor for making more professional designs ( and to play with! ) Thanks for the link.

Magenta — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 07:40:25 +0000

Megan;222203 wrote: And, really, you should be creating logos in a vector drawing program so that they can be easily scaled for different media. And they should work in black and white or 2-color printing etc.

OMG thank you for this advice!!!!! I know I seem a bit over-excited but I think it's solved a problem that's had me tearing my hair out!!!! I resized the text from a scanned business card as part of a header for a site but it ended up blurry and no matter what I fiddled with, it was never quite right. I'm going to give myself a crash course in vector graphics and have another go!

( ...and, no, I'm not charging for my inept webdesign services. A small local business is getting a website at cost in exchange for allowing me to develop my ,err, skills. :blush: )

Magenta — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 07:28:30 +0000

webwiz;222245 wrote: You may be interested in reading Web Pages That Suck -- "Biggest Mistakes in Web Design 1995-2015"

Warning - the page takes four minutes to load on dial-up!

I came across that site a while ago and it's great, isn't it?! One of the sites linked to as a "bad" site has a statcounter that shows far more visitors than would be expected for the small site it is. I wonder if they check out where their visitors came from or whether they just think they have a particularly attractive site.

demonhale — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 06:23:20 +0000

One thought, the current standards in software for logos ie Adobe Illustrator, and most Graphic Companies want you to have Photoshop, I feel quite monopolized by adobe that I seldom use their products anymore to show I can still make great designs with any other graphic software and vector tools...

webwiz — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 04:18:53 +0000

You may be interested in reading Web Pages That Suck -- "Biggest Mistakes in Web Design 1995-2015"

Warning - the page takes four minutes to load on dial-up!

JeevesBond — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:38:36 +0000

Megan wrote: And, really, you should be creating logos in a vector drawing program

Good point! Give Inkscape a try, it's Free software and won't cost you a penny either!