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Stumped by client's new logo.
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| Hi All:
I designed a website for a client a couple of years ago that has served him
very well. Recently he had a new logo made up that he is very proud of.
Unfortunately it's a real space hog and it doesn't look very good when it's
resized to fit into a header or sidebar. I already tried several different
ways to fit it into the current website design and the customer rejected
them all. You can see the new logo here: www.bobgreen.com/slidels.jpg.
Here is the layout of the original page: www.bobgreen.com/slidels01. Just
curious if y'all might have any ideas on what can be done with this?
Thanks!
BG
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| www.bobgreen.com/slidels01.jpg
"BG" <johndoe@scpwildblue.com> wrote in message
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> Hi All:
>
> I designed a website for a client a couple of years ago that has served
> him very well. Recently he had a new logo made up that he is very proud
> of. Unfortunately it's a real space hog and it doesn't look very good when
> it's resized to fit into a header or sidebar. I already tried several
> different ways to fit it into the current website design and the customer
> rejected them all. You can see the new logo here:
> www.bobgreen.com/slidels.jpg. Here is the layout of the original page:
> www.bobgreen.com/slidels01. Just curious if y'all might have any ideas on
> what can be done with this? Thanks!
>
> BG
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| Auggie 2006-05-30, 6:45 pm |
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"BG" <johndoe@scpwildblue.com> wrote in message
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> Hi All:
>
> I designed a website for a client a couple of years ago that has served
him
> very well. Recently he had a new logo made up that he is very proud of.
> Unfortunately it's a real space hog and it doesn't look very good when
it's
> resized to fit into a header or sidebar. I already tried several
different
> ways to fit it into the current website design and the customer rejected
> them all. You can see the new logo here: www.bobgreen.com/slidels.jpg.
> Here is the layout of the original page: www.bobgreen.com/slidels01.
Just
> curious if y'all might have any ideas on what can be done with this?
As a thought:
You have "HOME" as a leftside navigation bar. You might move that to the
upper right side above SEARCH (maybe put something new in place of the old
HOME).
That will increase the total size you have (height) for the top level
logo/header space.
Then put the new logo in the upper left corner above the navigation bars (in
kind of a 'bubble'), using as much of the space (and new space provided by
the move above) and remove the black and white box you have currently. You
can even have this 'bubble' for the new logo dip below the height of the top
level part so that it overlaps some of the left side navigation area.
In place of the B&W box, using a fancy/cursive script, put in something
like:
Slidel's Jewelers (large font)
Diamond Specialists since 1906 (small font so that its as wide at the above
text)
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| On Tue, 30 May 2006 14:05:41 -0400, "BG" <johndoe@scpwildblue.com>
scrawled:
[color=darkred]
> www.bobgreen.com/slidels01.jpg
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> "BG" <johndoe@scpwildblue.com> wrote in message
> news:lNKdnZfnd8s2GuHZRVn-hg@trueband.net...
What if you make it just a little smaller, put it in the center, and
then work around it. You could divide the page into quadrants, for
one example, with different text/navigation in the different
quadrants.
--
MGW
Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even
when you take into account Hofstadter's Law. - Douglas Hofstadter
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| The text would be a little small it you were to just minimize it.
I'm thinking a 780px wide horiz. bar with that logo on the left, maybe
with the top and bottom not completely contained in the bar.
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| Martin Jay 2006-06-03, 7:13 pm |
| In message <lNKdnZfnd8s2GuHZRVn-hg@trueband.net>, BG
<johndoe@scpwildblue.com> writes
>I designed a website for a client a couple of years ago that has served him
>very well. Recently he had a new logo made up that he is very proud of.
>Unfortunately it's a real space hog and it doesn't look very good when it's
>resized to fit into a header or sidebar. I already tried several different
>ways to fit it into the current website design and the customer rejected
>them all. You can see the new logo here: www.bobgreen.com/slidels.jpg.
>Here is the layout of the original page: www.bobgreen.com/slidels01. Just
>curious if y'all might have any ideas on what can be done with this?
Hmmm...
How about taking out the words "Slidels" and "Diamond Jewelers" and
putting them across the top of the page, then using the full logo as a
background image.
Whoever designed the original image must have created it in a format
that would be enlarged or reduced without losing clarity. Is it
possible to ask them to provide a realizable image, or one at a smaller
size?
Doesn't your customer use the logo elsewhere, such as letter heads,
business cards, signs, etc? Doesn't he have a smaller version of the
logo for that?
Or just point out there's an apostrophe missing in Slidel's,
and Jewellers is spelt wrong (well here in the UK, anyway).
--
Martin Jay
Phone/SMS: +44 7740 191877
Fax: +44 870 915 2124
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| Dylan Parry 2006-06-03, 7:13 pm |
| BG wrote:
> Recently he had a new logo made up that he is very proud of.
> Unfortunately it's a real space hog and it doesn't look very good
> when it's resized to fit into a header or sidebar.
It's a nice looking logo. Have they thought about having a variation of
that logo for their website, in the same way that other brands do? For
example, having a smaller version of the ring with the text portion
flanking rather than contained within it? ie.
xxxxx tttttttttttttttttttt
xxxxx tttttttttttttttttttt
Where the x's are the ring and the t's are the text. That way the logo
wouldn't take up any more space than the existing one, but the brand
identity would still be there.
Think of companies like Amazon, who have one identity but dozens of
logos along the same theme:
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix...60&p=irol-logos - they
are all instantly recognisable as Amazon.
--
Dylan Parry
http://webpageworkshop.co.uk -- FREE Web tutorials and references
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"Auggie" <Imperial.Palace@Rome.It> wrote in message
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> "BG" <johndoe@scpwildblue.com> wrote in message
> news:lNKdnZfnd8s2GuHZRVn-hg@trueband.net...
> him
> it's
> different
> Just
>
> As a thought:
>
> You have "HOME" as a leftside navigation bar. You might move that to the
> upper right side above SEARCH (maybe put something new in place of the old
> HOME).
>
> That will increase the total size you have (height) for the top level
> logo/header space.
>
> Then put the new logo in the upper left corner above the navigation bars
> (in
> kind of a 'bubble'), using as much of the space (and new space provided by
> the move above) and remove the black and white box you have currently.
> You
> can even have this 'bubble' for the new logo dip below the height of the
> top
> level part so that it overlaps some of the left side navigation area.
>
> In place of the B&W box, using a fancy/cursive script, put in something
> like:
> Slidel's Jewelers (large font)
> Diamond Specialists since 1906 (small font so that its as wide at the
> above
> text)
Thanks for your help. You gave me the little spark I needed to come up with
a design the client really likes. Here it is:
www.bobgreen.com/slidels03.jpg. Thanks a bunch. I get so much inspiration
from this group and I really appreciate it.
BG
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"Martin Jay" <martin@spam-free.org.uk> wrote in message
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> In message <lNKdnZfnd8s2GuHZRVn-hg@trueband.net>, BG
> <johndoe@scpwildblue.com> writes
>
>
> Hmmm...
>
> How about taking out the words "Slidels" and "Diamond Jewelers" and
> putting them across the top of the page, then using the full logo as a
> background image.
>
> Whoever designed the original image must have created it in a format that
> would be enlarged or reduced without losing clarity. Is it possible to
> ask them to provide a realizable image, or one at a smaller size?
>
> Doesn't your customer use the logo elsewhere, such as letter heads,
> business cards, signs, etc? Doesn't he have a smaller version of the logo
> for that?
>
> Or just point out there's an apostrophe missing in Slidel's,
> and Jewellers is spelt wrong (well here in the UK, anyway).
> --
> Martin Jay
> Phone/SMS: +44 7740 191877
> Fax: +44 870 915 2124
Thanks for your comments Martin. As mentioned above, here is what I came up
with that the client likes: www.bobgreen.com/slidels03.jpg.
BG
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"Dylan Parry" <usenet@dylanparry.com> wrote in message
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> BG wrote:
>
>
> It's a nice looking logo. Have they thought about having a variation of
> that logo for their website, in the same way that other brands do? For
> example, having a smaller version of the ring with the text portion
> flanking rather than contained within it? ie.
>
> xxxxx tttttttttttttttttttt
> xxxxx tttttttttttttttttttt
>
> Where the x's are the ring and the t's are the text. That way the logo
> wouldn't take up any more space than the existing one, but the brand
> identity would still be there.
>
> Think of companies like Amazon, who have one identity but dozens of
> logos along the same theme:
> http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix...60&p=irol-logos - they
> are all instantly recognisable as Amazon.
Hi Dylan:
Thanks for your comments. That's what I had first proposed, but the client
was adamant that the logo remain unchanged. Here was what I came up with
that the client approved and it didn't change his logo.
www.bobgreen.com/slidels03.jpg
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| Dylan Parry 2006-06-03, 7:13 pm |
| BG wrote:
> Here was what I came up with that the client approved and it didn't change his logo.
> www.bobgreen.com/slidels03.jpg
That looks pretty nice really. I don't like the "quality you can afford"
text (or the nav text below that text), but as long as the customer is
happy!
--
Dylan Parry
http://webpageworkshop.co.uk -- FREE Web tutorials and references
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