Very good, FF.
SOMEBODY GIVE THIS MAN A COOKIE!!!

And no cookies for Marx.

Different. Cool color scheme.

Nice logo Meaty!

I like the first one...

sweet, like that one from meaty...

btw marx.. animation?
why do people always think animation equals good design...

Assumption eh...ok ill let the experts handle it then

(Basing a website on a logo... that a sure fire way to get your public interested...

or you could go for your key demographic...

or ya know you could base the site on content displayed

or perhaps you could go for the ever popular conventions of the genre...

perhaps you could also throw in some connotative imagery...)

nah logo's good start with the logo... having the relevant market research and knowing ya target audience is nothing when you can have a logo...

logo comes last ... why...

you know your audience, you know your company, you have your, website. now what image can encompass the whole thing... oh wait no... lets start at the end and work our way backwards.

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...

i like the second one... simple

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:


/*this part was added later*/

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

I love 'em both!
But, if I had to pick one...I'd go with the second.

It doesn't.
My $0.02

um, actually, Marx-Man, most of the time a website is designed around the logo, by using elements from the logo such as the colors and the design itself. If the logo is modern-looking, usually the site will be modernistic; if it's an old-style sort of logo, then the site will usually stick with that sort of theme. Don't know where you're getting your lessons from, but it's simply not true that the "logo comes last" in almost every case.

added something to my a latest comment .. just to let you know

He only says that stuff to get a reaction, he knew how stupid it was when he wrote it.

I like this one a lot. You should make a couple more color schemes and post them here.