yes totally illogic. What site would design his style around the theme of his logo
oh wait....
http://coca-cola.com/index-b.html
Don't think I disagree with your point MM, but there's actually a lot of sites who first have a logo before they even thought about a site. (about all the companies, especially the ones who were here before 1992
)
Anyway, you would be suprised how many jobs there are out there to design a logo without having hardly any or even no specifics. In many of the cases the customer doesn't know what he wants untill he actually sees a logo before his eyes.
And btw, if you read the first post from Procyon you would have noticed this:
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I'll point you in the right direction by telling you what I like and what I don't like. For now just be creative and stick to clean and "cool" concepts.
/*this part was added later*/
Marxman wrote:
animation does not equal good design. it makes somthing more pleasurable to veiw... plus is keeps the focus on the site instead of looking at a still and looking away the animation is a freash image at its frame rate... also buttons which move and so on show off your site in all its glory... or perhaps blue links are the future...
Or it could be annoying as hell, I don't want some thing flashing over and forth while I'm trying to read an article about some serious stuff or while I'm visiting some site with information on the local politics (par example). Do you really think i need to see pretty moving buttons. No I don't, I want my information fast and quickly. Pretty things are stuff to worry about later (or ignore). The most important thing is the layout and navigation, that's what keeps the focus. And moving buttons are not part of that
Now get me some coffee! And start creating logo's!
ps: the stuff I say here is a general consideration and and therefore should not be held as thé truth. And it even lacks an enormous amount of information. But I'm not a teacher nor master. I'm talking out of my own experience and the stuff I've learned 
