If you have a website and thinking of getting its logo done, let me tell you website logo designing is a specialized job, which calls for understanding of the medium ‘Internet’ besides skills required from a graphic designer. Website logo has to bear essence of the website and express millions of words. It not only has to be appealing, but also technically sound so that it doesn’t take too long to get loaded or to become visible.
Here are some tips for designing an effective and appealing website logo.
Never settle for bitmap. Although it’s a conventional practice these days to use vector images, but at times designers are casual about it too. Vector designs allow maximum variants, repeated resizing and alterations, color edits. Vector images allow repetitive resizing alteration without loss of picture quality.
Don’t suffocate and clutter your website logo. Let it breathe. Never use too many fonts. Preferably use a single font, at the maximum two. More than that is highly unappealing. Multi font logo designs exhibit immaturity, amateurish attempt of its designer. Remember, your logo should contain a single font. Even if the brand name is of 3 words, it can’t contain different fonts for different words. You may use one typeface for the company name and another typeface for its slogan. Too many fonts not only distract but also loosen brand coherence and dilute its identity in viewer’s mind.
Legibility is very important. A website has to fit within the screen, while displaying everything at a time. Logo is challenged by other space filling elements like web content, advertisements, pictures etc. Web name and its logo occupy a small portion, within which it has to grab attention to the fullest. Thus logo has to be attractive, distinct, and legible. Its each letter has to be prominent and clear. If a logo can’t be read despite bearing exceptionally brilliant design, it falls flat on face. Remember, at the end of the end it bears name of the website – its sole identity. Simple, yet graceful logo always works. Your logo says a thousand words about your company.
Pictures are not graphics and do not allow resizing. Avoid them in logo. They clutter logo as well. Instead you may use a symbol.
Get set go, get a logo for your portal.
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A feedback is important. It plays a crucial role in our personal or professional development, but it works only if we get a proper feedback. An improper feedback like, “things look good to me” does not do any good. Therefore, the real challenge is to know how to get a proper feedback from people around us.
In this article, I have tried to provide a workable “feedback seeking system” which you can use to get a proper feedback. You can also modify the system, if you feel something is missing.
Why you want a feedback and on what? The answer to this question matters a lot. A generic feedback like, “all is good” or “there is some problem here and there, but the rest is good” will not do any good. Set a target for why you want a feedback. If you have written something then the feedback you can seek could be related to your writing style, coherence, grammatical and punctuation errors, or overall understandability. You can subdivide your work in this way and ask for feedback about the particular thing you want to know.
Do not seek feedback from anyone and everyone. It will do no good. A proper feedback should come from a qualified source. Ask your senior, your client, your boss, your teacher, or anyone who is more qualified than you are on the subject for the feedback. A washerwoman’s feedback on the structure of your SQL database will serve nothing.
Do not ask your family or the closest friend who knows everything about your project for the feedback. Good or bad, it will never give you the feedback that you can use.
Ask questions relevant to the feedback goal you set in step one. Do not pose generic question, as it will not fetch desired answer. Ask a targeted question and listen patiently for the answer.
If feedback sought is for something or someone else then assure your source that his or her identity will be kept hidden if he or she wishes to do that. And if the feedback is about you then tell the feedback source that his or her honest opinion will not tarnish your relationship. This is very important.
Do not lose heart if you do not get positive feedback from all quarters. No matter how smart your source is, he or she can still be short-sighted or wrong. Show confidence in your ability.
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