Hi, I having problems building a logo for a website and wanted to see if anyone has any good ideas...

It is for a reptile company....

I think the logo should be green and be 700 px wide, however I am very open to suggestions....it will be used as the header of the website. Does anyone have any suggestions???

The name of the company is New York Reptiles.

Thanks for any help you can offer!

hello, it sounds interesting.. I guess your logo design would be based on what your company actually does... What do you do with reptiles?? sell them? display them? protect them? eat them? Who is your target audience?

Do you specialise in any particular reptile? What sort of "look & feel" do you want to portray? Photographic? Graphical? Scientific? Comic?

It is a company that sells reptiles. I am not very artistic, but I was thinking of having the company name and then have some type of graphic of a snake, frog, turtle, etc....something like that in the corner. The company specializes in frogs, snakes, turtles, geckos, spiders and bugs. I guess like a company mascot is what I need?? Does this help??

if you're not very graphic, then i would suggest that you don't try to create a decent image from scratch, but instead pay a decent web development company or graphic designer to do one. logo design is an important part of branding and as such, can you get the client to allocate a budget to it?

maybe NYR with a graphical/comic gecko wrapped round the Y in a circle, to give it some kind of deep branding, or a long one using an iguana or chameleon and making use of the tail to put the reptile on the top and the tail along the bottom. are they planning on using it on headed paper, if so you should be charging for a 300dpi version or at least bearing this in mind when creating the logo to prevent you from having to re-create it from scratch once you've done it already.

can you get some reptiles photographed on a white background professionally at NYR or buy this elsewhere suitably?

I would be inclined to use a blocky, modern, heavyweight font for the logo possibly with large/small caps rather than lowercase.

alternatives would be a frog in a circle ribbit or a turtle, or possibly

<N> <Y> <R>
frog gecko turtle

if that makes any sense? (not sure the spacing was right). aim to keep the vertical height fairly low, no more than 120px, or 150x150px if using a circular logo in the top corner with a drop.

I agree with Frog... it is best to hire a professional for your logo as it is important to your business. If you can work out what you want so you can provide guidelines the process will be much easier for the designer.

There are a number of options available and we have some good graphics folks around these forums.

You could think of doing a barter... maybe someone would like a pet?
Or you could put the project up in the marketplace section.

Illustration is a little more skilled than straight graphic design, so you can expect it to have a slightly higher price tag to get what you want. Another thing when having a logo created (especially if you go for an illustration) is to be aware of copyright laws and ownership. Discuss this with your designer before going ahead.

i'll agree with excell on this - we did a horse logo for a property company (called stallion, funnily enough) and sank a lot of extra hours in to get it right. i'm not sure if you're a developer or at NYR, but either way, you need to convince the person making the decisions that it *is* worth doing, and it's worth being done professionally. a good brand induces confidence in your clients to buy, and......forgive me for this, but selling reptiles over the internet sounds dodgy to a frog like myself , so you want to do anything you can to dissipate this feeling.

having said that, i know there's a lot of interest in this field and it's one of the more popular 'interest' sectors of the net, the site should do well.

Hello Friend ,
i also in trouble for making logo for my website can you please sugget .My web site publishes magazine .please suggest me how can i make logo
Mit
Thanks

I am having problems designing a logo on my website as well, it is called oundle.tk. i have tried all the usual flaming texts.com and everything but i really cant find anything. If any one is willing to design one for me for free, i will in return plug them on my site? If this deal sounds appealing please pm/email me. dj_ed12@hotmail.com

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-> Better try and reply to this one as well...

To get a logo... why not have a little competition, and get some traffic in the process? Or why not look amongst your friends - there is bound to be one with some clever ideas... perhaps there is even a closet artist in there somewhere? It is cheaper to have a logo done if you know exactly what you want, than asking a designer to do the thinking for you. Go to your local bookstore and check out the "Big Book of Logos" by David E. Carter for some really cool logos (for inspiration only - copyright could bite you in the butt really hard if you are unlucky.)

There is also a great book called "Dictionary of Symbols" by Carl. G. Ljungman, who writes about ideograms and their history, and meaning - could be a great source of inspiration.

There is also a lot of free clip art out there (if you are not overly protective, and concerned about trade or service marks) - which is easy to spiff up in an easy to use application. There are quite a few of them that you can download for free for a couple of weeks, and get your logo done (a couple that comes to mind

- Xara X by Xara my favourite secret weapon to Illustrator, Photoshop, and Corel Draw.)
- DrawPlus by Serif - a bit cheaper than Xara X I believe, a bit limited in some features, but should to the trick for most logos.
- Real-DRAW PRO by MediaChance. A bit slow for some work (not for logos) but it has some really clever 3D effects that doesn't exist in other vector applications.

The above mentioned apps. cost less than a night-out (if you are Canadian... )

[ Message was edited by: Polka_Queen 05/04/2004 04:01 pm ]