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| feel like I'm at work and being told once again that black shoes do not go with white khakis |
dude, first of all, black and white go with anything. As long as your shoes weren't white, I don't know what they were talking about.
*cough* anyways. I like the new one, it just seems very writing-like to me. |
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| Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 9:05 pm Post subject: |
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So, Nate. About that color scheme ... 
Hmm. I never noticed the banner shrinking before, geez, 'Dettie. Now it'll annoy me since you pointed it out. *shakes head* |
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| Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 11:31 pm Post subject: |
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I love the one that is up right now.
The one with the notebook that is brown with the squigglies. |
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| Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 11:48 pm Post subject: |
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I forgot to mention (and really should've) that the background for the logo is done by Vlad Studios. You can check out the awesome background in its entirety here:
http://www.vladstudio.com/wallpaper/?532 |
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| Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 12:19 am Post subject: |
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Hm... I liked the old one better... Oh well. The new ones cool to.
~Pol~ |
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| Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 12:28 am Post subject: - |
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Eh. Don't like it much. The other one was much better. Actually, it's not really the logo itself that bothers me, but the little black heading bars and the bubble images.
Kinda annoying.
Of course that's just my opinion and I'm going to have to live with it.
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| Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 12:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Kylan, refresh your browser. I got rid of those black bars a little more than an hour before you made that message. |
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| Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 2:06 pm Post subject: |
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I like it, but it seems really dark, considering how light the rest of the template is. 
(Also, sometimes it's smaller and sometimes it's larger - is it supposed to to that?) |
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| Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 5:10 pm Post subject: |
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Meep's account has been locked for mentioning color schemes.
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Just joking
While it may be darker in contrast to the rest of the template and/or it doesn't go with the rest of the colors in the template, I don't really see why it matters. I certainly hope that people aren't surfing the web saying that "Well gee golly, this site sure does look nice, but that dark red logo does not go with that neon orange text!" By the way Meep, I swear I'm not picking on you! I'm using your comment as a useful segue into an explanation of my reasoning behind changing the logo to the current one.
However, people will choose a site based upon the graphics, for better or for worse. In that sense, an eye-catching logo is necessary to grab the viewer's immediate interest.
So why this logo instead of the last one?
The last logo was good; as someone said, it was new age and abstract and all-around cool. It was also completely designed by myself, so I am actually very happy that some are saying they liked the older logo better than this one.
But unfortunately, it wasn't writing related. This is a literary web site, not an artistic web site, and you want your logo to match the overall theme. So while the last logo may have been cooler, it gave you no idea what the site was about.
The current logo, on the other hand, tells you right away what the site is about: books! Moreover, since the books are displayed rather abstractly, it also gives you a sense that this web site is a little bit "quirky" as it no doubt is. On the other hand, a logo like writing.com's logo with the stack of books implies the site is very serious. Our logo instead gives the implication that the site is fun while still retaining that literary edge.
So there's my reasoning behind the shift
But since I still love the old logo, it's over on the blog.
As for why it minimizes sometimes, that (as already stated on the previous page of this thread) is a bug which I'm going to get around to fixing sometime soon. |
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| Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 5:16 pm Post subject: |
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Me liketh it! Although I confess that I wouldn't have looked at it and immediately seen your reasoning behind it, Nate.  It does look very posh, though. Give it to me again.  |
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| Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 10:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Nate wrote: |
| Meep's account has been locked for mentioning color schemes. |
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| I certainly hope that people aren't surfing the web saying that "Well gee golly, this site sure does look nice, but that dark red logo does not go with that neon orange text! |
... some of us do. (I like graphic design! It's what I want to do for a living! I have to notice these things!)
It is a very pretty logo. though I like it a lot better than the last one. It was a shock at first, being so dark, but I've grown to love it. |
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| Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 11:03 pm Post subject: |
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haha Meep, although you really shouldn't have mentioned that you do graphics design for a living. You may start getting e-mails from me regarding logo design and whether this logo is better than that logo
The image resizing has been fixed! |
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| Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 2:55 am Post subject: |
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I adore it, very classy and crisp. Hurray for new Logo!
EDIT: brainstorm! You may have done this and I missed it, but perhaps you could expand the logo to the background, like have the nifty tree branches wrpa the whole way down the backdrop. Or would that be to much? Just a thought  |
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| Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 3:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Nate wrote: |
| haha Meep, although you really shouldn't have mentioned that you do graphics design for a living. You may start getting e-mails from me regarding logo design and whether this logo is better than that logo |
I enjoy doing stuff like that!
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| The image resizing has been fixed! |
Oh, goody, 'cause that was driving me batty. |
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| Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 7:03 pm Post subject: |
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| But unfortunately, it wasn't writing related. This is a literary web site, not an artistic web site, and you want your logo to match the overall theme. So while the last logo may have been cooler, it gave you no idea what the site was about. |
Except for the "Young Writers Society" written in bold in the middle.
Sorry, I couldn't resist
*hides, and waits for account to be deleted*
I preferred the old one, but I understand your reasons for the new one. It still looks nice, and I have no problems whatsoever with the colour scheme! |
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