Logo review

[corepages]

Please review my logo and make suggestions. I used photodraw to create it, but I'm not that creative and need a little help.
My site is www.corepages.com

Thanks

[Jona]

It's simple and fairly decent -- I've seen worse. I'd go for something more related to "core," though; perhaps a 3D diagram of the earth in the place of the letter "O." It can be helpful to do a Google image search on the key words of your logo to get some ideas.

By the way, your page says it meets W3C standards but not to what extent. You're using tables for your layout and a transitional doctype. I couldn't validate your source code because you didn't specify a content-type for your page. Your page meets section 508 and WCAG level A standards, but fails at WCAG level AA. Your tables linearize and are therefore acceptable on the WCAG-A level, but since you claim to know CSS, you really should look into designing sites with CSS instead of tables. This is for optimal accessibility and W3C compliance. Also, you might want to choose some different colors. The maroon and yellow is way over used (look at WebReference.com and tell me it looks good), and the blue doesn't necessarily help much. Just a thought. Good luck!

[corepages]

Thanks Jona for your excellent idea, I'll definitely use your idea on the logo.

Thanks

[Jona]

Happy to help. :)

[zingmatter]

I was thinking more of apple cores: see attached...

[corepages]

Another excellent idea zingmatter, but I'm not sure if I can re-create that one. What graphic tool did you use?

[corepages]

I used both ideas and came up with ...
See the attachment.

[corepages]

With a little tweaking ...

[LiLcRaZyFuZzY]

how about this?

[corepages]

Very creative LiLcRaZyFuZzY, something like that will be good too.

[LiLcRaZyFuZzY]

u could maybe add a earth or continent outline shape on it...but i think a globus(?)/earth planet will be too complex for a logo...
you know simple logos are very trendy!:D

[zingmatter]

Hey, great-looking logos guys - (mine was done using photoshop) the apple stolen from somewhere using Google image search - but the globe works well.

I don't think you need to entirely simple these days, the original limits were set by what could be printed. Now that doesn't apply I'd say simplicity with just a light touch of something interesting.

[LiLcRaZyFuZzY]

yeah me too photoshop

rite, logo should be original(not common), so that u actually remember it, but look all famous brends logo, few of them are really fancy,
but i think theyre looking great(cingular for example)

[Jona]

I thought the apple core idea was great. There's lots of different things you can think of -- heck, you might even put a nuclear reactor on there! :p

[LiLcRaZyFuZzY]

nuclear reactor?

[Jona]

I realize it's going way out on a limb, but I had something more like the attached in mind. Of course, it doesn't fit the color scheme well, but to demonstrate my statements -- you can put a great many things in the place of the letter "O." ;)

[zingmatter]

What about the irish band the Corrs...

[Jona]

Originally posted by zingmatter
What about the irish band the Corrs...

lol! Now we're getting creative! Haha.

[LiLcRaZyFuZzY]

ok ok, what bout this?:D

[corepages]

You're good at what you do LiLcRaZyFuZzY - very creative. Your last post looks like a movie banner. I think I'll keep it simple like zingmatter said.
Thank you guys so much for your suggestions, comments and advice. It's been a lot of fun; I'll definitely come back for more.

[Jona]

lol. Actually that came up in Google search, and I think he changed the text on it. Good job, though, lol. Nice edit. ;) Something simple is definitely best, Corepages.

[jnl]

hihi...u guys are sooooooooooooo funny

i like the apple one but i think it's missing some seeds right?
that's what the core is all about...the seeds!
can we do red apple? looks more delicious in red.

apple also means that u are smart, just like New York City...hahah..
just some of my humour...oops, sorry to disturb u guys.

ok, ok, i'll leave.

jnl

[LiLcRaZyFuZzY]

yeah, actually i google for that movie banner("the core") and edited it.:D

[corepages]

I changed the logo and the colors. What do you think?

[Jona]

Originally posted by corepages
I changed the logo and the colors. What do you think?

Well if that's your kind of taste. ;) The links that turn red in the horizontal navigation at the top are difficult to read when they are red. Maybe you could tone down the red to a slightly darker color or something? Also, you might try just a little more quality on that logo - it looks decent, but the quality is poor. In fact, I had to double-check to make sure it wasn't a JPEG file.

[corepages]

I'll work on that, thanks Jona.

[LiLcRaZyFuZzY]

yeah the graphic need to be clearer

[davidbrent]

Here's my entry. It took me 7 minutes. I am now off to work.

[LiLcRaZyFuZzY]

its a bit small, i cant see whats in the "O"

[jnl]

hummm....it's getting interesting

how about this fire from the poster to be put in your core of the earth? more realistic...do u think?

hihi...just another woman's touch...

jnl

[davidbrent]

Ok, blown up and modified(ish). Sometimes I wish I had my copies of Adobe Illustrator CS on me...

[corepages]

This is my final answer for now.
It's still a little fuzzy - I can live with that for now.

[davidbrent]

I'm not sure about such thick inner shadows. It's hard to decide isn't it1 :P

[gumbystation]

I'm totally understanding of how hard it is to pick. BUt at least you have a hard push into a direction.

[zingmatter]

Ok, I don't mean to be rude (young people please switch over to the Disney Channel now), but you Core logo graphic seems to resemble a vigi...er..part of a woman's anatomy - if you see what I mean....:eek:

[Jona]

Originally posted by zingmatter
Ok, I don't mean to be rude (young people please switch over to the Disney Channel now), but you Core logo graphic seems to resemble a vigi...er..part of a woman's anatomy - if you see what I mean....:eek:

Um, lol, I kind of thought of it like a compass. But, heh, you started spelling it wrong. Maybe the kids won't guess thataway, lol. (Sorry, I just find your comment hilarious.)

[corepages]

I'm hiring a logo designer, in the mean time I'll forget the "core" thing and just keep it simple.
I didn't know that my site was a turn on :).

[zingmatter]

Oh dear, it must have been late :o - I meant to say I looks like a VIGIlante...(had to look that one up in the dictionary).

[LiLcRaZyFuZzY]

hehehe..

corepages, could u post when the logo is done?i wanna take a look @ how a logo designer would do that

[corepages]

You'll be the first to know.

[Kyleva2204]

Originally posted by LiLcRaZyFuZzY
ok ok, what bout this?:D funny man! Loved the tweaking ya did!!

[Kyleva2204]

I'm kinda a fan for short and simple.. nothing in the text, just plain text.....

[LiLcRaZyFuZzY]

Originally posted by Kyleva2204
funny man! Loved the tweaking ya did!!

thx, ;)

[jnl]

haha...some adults are having highly imaginative minds...

[corepages]

I think I'll keep the current logo - just keep it simple.
With that said I'd like to thank everybody for your input in trying to assist me with the logo.

Thanks again guys

[corepages]

Checkout the new look on the home page. www.corepages.com

[Jona]

What's with making it about 100px tall inside what looks like an iframe?

[corepages]

It is an iframe. You don't like it?

[Jona]

My screen is ~768 pixels high. I would like to use all 768 pixels, not just 100 of them. It's really difficult to even see what's going on. I don't understand how you can possibly enjoy squinting at the screen and scrolling down just to finish reading each sentence.

[the tree]

Agreed, that is both pointless and iritating. (and inaccessable)

[voxunity]

it's ok!

[LiLcRaZyFuZzY]

@jona&tree, think he didnt try on Mozilla, works "well" on IE, tho i dont see why an iframe

isnt that the same girl as on freetranslation.com ?

btw...did u lose your logo? i cant find any on your page...the code is pretty awful

[corepages]

I guess the iframe tag doesn't work well on FireFox and Opera browsers, it works okay in IE. I'll try regular frames.

[zingmatter]

I'm on IE and I don't see any logo at all. Seems to be some iframe?

[corepages]

Still working on it

[corepages]

It's done now.

[Jona]

The only thing that loads now is the logo and a blue link at the top. There's nothing else on the page, though...

[zingmatter]

Why the iframe? Surely SSI would be preferable. I'd incorperate the tag-line (in the wrong font btw) into your graphic. Just looks disjointed. The main content is good, but doesn't "connect" to you banner - it looks a bit like when a totally different web site gets loaded into a frame.

[corepages]

This time I'm working a new logo for another site and I have four logos to choose from. I'd appreciate your input as you've done before.
Just refer to the logos by their numbers when you're replying.

Here is the link;
http://www.corepages.com/logos/logos.php

[zingmatter]

I like 3, although 2 is good too. I'm not sure about the inner shadow on the text though, keeping it flat and simple may be more effective (I prefer the font of 2 for ZIMBIZ).

[LiLcRaZyFuZzY]

wow, old thread!

out of those, i like #3 the best, but i don't like them too much

[ChiefNX]

The top looks a bit jagged on three, but if you could tidy it up, then it would be my favourite. Otherwise I would go with two.

[Jona]

I like the third one.

[Kendi]

#3 is my fav. It appears to be the clearest of them all.

Kendi

[LiLcRaZyFuZzY]

and it seems to please to almost everyone

[corepages]

I guess #3 wins. Thank you everyone, I'll let you know when the site is ready and the logo is up.

Thanks again

[Launchnet]

Probably a dumb question, but does core really mean? Core is the center of things, but does that really mean anything in this application? Or, is it just a logo to have a logo?

[corepages]

The logo is corepages not core. I think you're focusing too much on core instead of the whole word.

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[thewebman]

umm, what does that have to do with this thread? start your own.

[tatertot]

#3 is the best
:)