If you are a logo designer, you most probably would love to know the sites where you can get an inspiration for to enhance your creativity of logo design. It’s normal that one gets complacent if one does not see other’s work. If we see other’s work done in better way there is an inspiration inside to do better than what we see. Here I have collected 10 sites for you where users submit their work to show his/her logo design skills. Apart from seeing their work you can also submit your own work.

1.Carbonmade

If you have a good skill of designing website of logo you can post your   portfolio  at  Carbonmade . This website provides you are where you can   place your work.  This website is also great source of inspiration for website designer and logo designers.

2.LogoPond

You can browse through this logo design collection website. Here too, you can submit your own logo as well as you can see other designer work.

3.Faveup

Faveup contains large collection is logo gallery. Here you can find website which are built in CSS and also flash. Apart from browsing other works you can also make your own portfolio . One of the best websites for design inspiration.

4.deviantART

My personal favorite, deviantART also hosts large collection of graphic and logo designs.   I am sure if you enter this website as a designer you will e happy to see large portfolio of the website designers.  The website has been divides into categories for user’s convenience. You can also make your own design and logo design port folio to show your designing skills.

5.LogoSauce

LogoSauce is yet another design portfolio website one can submit their  own website as well as see others work . This website has as many as 4,000 designers with profiles.

6.Lo8os

This website is also very fine for logo and web designer. The designer community websites, where one can share their work as well as see other works also.

7.The Identity Archives Project

This website provides you facility where one can find large collection of logo and design work. Just you need to type the keyword you need to find and then you can see host of design works and logos there.  Users are also allowed to submit their own work in this website.

8.Logo Design Love

Logo Design Love is very good blog. The owner of the blog David Airey, a designer himself has written many articles on design and graphics. Here designer can find a lot of graphics inspiration.

9.Brand New

If you are a very good logo designer and you still are willing to learn more, Brand New is good pace for you. Here you can find corporate and brand identity work.

10.LogoLounge

LogoLounge is another site for logo designers who are looking todisplay their work, and therefore a great place for design inspiration.

Font has been very important tool for website designer ever since the internet came into being.  If the website designer uses font in proper way, a good website and logo can be designed. While designing a logo, artwork is most important thing, but if font is blended with the artwork, nice logo can be designed.

Here are some examples in which fonts have been blended in logo which looks stunning.

1. Bravora

If you look  at this logo.  A nice font has been used in this. The font itself is increasing the beauty of the logo.  Just nice curve and good font blending , giving the logo exceptiona look.

2. Air Vault

Combination of  artwork and good font is  giving this logo a stunning look. Created in white background the logo is looking really  great.

3. Anjaha

In green color the logo desginer has done a great job by  blendign artwork  with fonts.  The logo is looking unique.

4. Butterfly Logo.

Butterfly logo is  also looking very fine. Font is adding beauty to this logo.

5. CRUI

6.Diagonal pixel

7.International Online

8.Konvicted arts

9.Shafinaz

10.Mimsan

11.Dynamica

12. CGN

13.Pixel media world(plus)

14.Prima

15.Redkroft

1.Old Style Icon Set

2. Hand  Writing Icons

Green Theme Icon Set

Porcelian Dock Icon

3-G Icon Set

Social Networking Web Icons

You may have seen many websites which has buy now buttons which is used to  provide a link through which any one can buy any items on internet. If you are a general internet user, the buy now button does not make much difference. But I you are an e-commerce website owner, who sells products, can understand the importance of that button.  There are cases when as a website owner does not pay much attention on this button, if you think carefully; it’s the gateway through which money comes into your coffer. Thus buy now button should be chosen carefully so that it is clearly visible and users do not have to fumble for buy now button to purchase your product.

How to choose its color?

Most of the website owner does not care much about this button and deign the butting with any color. He uses any color to design the button. It’s better for website owner to decide on their own the color of the buy now button. The button should be attractive with well color combination, so that it attracts attention of the buyer.  The buy now button should be designed in such a way that it stands out from rest. But this does not mean that it should be gaudy and ends up looking ugly. For example, if you website has black background, there is no point in using gray or any other such light color.  It’s recommended to sue red or such bright color which seeks attention of the buyer.

Where to place Buy Now Button?

I do not understand the point of the website owner or developer bungling with the buy now button palaces.  It’s very important that the place of the ‘Buy Now’ button should be at proper place. Imagine a case when you are going to buy your mobile phone. You saw its all features and liked it. Now you want to buy it. But when you thought click on buy not button, you had look around for buying.  In that case it’s most likely that you will lose interest.  It’s a general fact that why your customer should have to find buy now button when he is going to spend hard earned money.

1.    Put your ‘buy now’ button after you have shown image and description: It’s a common that before we purchase any product, we first check products images. Most probably  we also use zoom function to see the enlarged image.  Once we see image, we read its features. If both are complete and we  are satisfied with the product, we now look for Buy Now button. Ok, now you may have understood where the buy now button should be placed. It must be after image and description. So that your customer does not have to find buy now button and ultimately they leave half way.

2.    If the description of the website is large, put more than one Buy Now Button: In few cases, the description of the product is large. And few meager designers provide only one buy now button.  That’s not a good practice. If the description is large, you should place buy now button after every one subtitle.   It should be kept in mind that does not stuff too much Buy Now buttons. Use it judiciously.

3.    Use Post Method rather then get method to pass information from buy now button
If you are not a technical person, most probably you do not understand what difference between posts is and get method of passing data. But the developer understands this and it’s advisable to use post method rather than get. Because post method provides more security then get method of passing data.

If you search a sentence ‘Content is the king in Google’ in any search engines, I think you can find million of the websites which already have this phrase  Yes, it’s a true  that content of  any website is the king in Google search Engine. If there is more and more useful content, it’s most likely that your website will be given preference to others by search engines. But the question arises, if any website is stuffed with the full of useful contents which have duplicate contents, can such website be expected to fare well in Search Engines?   The answer is no.  Later or sooner your site will be banned by Google.
Over the years, Search Engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing are trying hard to make sure the visitor should get real and fresh content.  For this, these search Engines has started punishing the websites which have duplicate content from other websites and serve in their website.  Google is very strict in this regard.
I am going to explain you an example which I have seen in my life. I had  a client from Denmark; he used to own not less than 20 websites 3 years ago. He used to copy news from different sites, like yahoo, msn and other websites and would show in his website providing a link to the original website.  He used to earn more than 10,000 Dollar per month from Adsense from these sites.  But suddenly, the websites started losing its rank in search engines. He tried hard to save it from sinking these websites but he could not because of duplicate contents. Google banned the site and now he does not own any website ultimately losing his earning.
By above example you can understand that duplicate content copied from other websites how harmful can be for your website. Search Engines always like fresh and unique content.  Duplicate contents are frowned upon by search engines.  You always write an original content for your website. Yes, there are few phrases or sentence which you would like to use as duplicate; you may provide a quote which suggests the Google that this is a repeating phrase. For example, if we need to write. Honesty is the best policy. Which is a universal phrase?  It’s better if you write this as ‘Honesty is the best policy.’
Ok, so you are a website owner and have assigned the task to content writer for writing content.  But you do not know how to check duplicate content.
The simplest method of checking duplicate content is, copy a part of your content and paste it into Google search engine and hit enter button. You will get large result list. If your content matches to any website, you will see bold exact lines the one you are searching for. This way you can know if the content is duplicate or not and your content matches from which other websites. If the content is matching line by line, you can understand its exact copy of that website.
There are few cases when you give any content to the writer and ask your content writer to write the same topic but in their own words. Ok, how will you know if the words he has used are different from the original? You can use copy cape website and compare both the documents. It will give you an idea what the percentage is of words which is matching in both the documents.

There are thousands of web site deigning companies in the world and every day hundreds of new ones are coming up. It has become very difficult for any website owner to sort the chaff from the grain. Every website owner wants their website to be perfect as well as the charge of the web designing, reasonable. But question arises, how one can decide which one is good and which one not?

Her are few points which can be helpful in choosing your right company for web designing and web development.

1. Check background of the company: First and foremost thing that you need to keep in mind before you place the order is, check the background of the company. For example for how many years that company is there. And what’s the infrastructure like how many programmers and designers are there in the company etc. You can also check company’s website. In most of the caese, if the company is caring and quality based, their own website will be neat and clean  as well as error free. Any established company will not show you message like, ‘page under construction’ or ‘coming soon’. You can also check, for how long the company website is there. By putting that company name in whois.net website you can get that detail.
2. Check their Portfolio: Portfolio of any company is also very import. It’s the most curial part of the website from where you get and idea about the past work of any website company. This is the area where you can also see, if the company has developed any website like the one you need. Though seeing any other website will also give you and idea what level of service that company can provide you.
3. Make your point clear: Before you place any order, it’s advisable to make documentation and write your requirements in details. This will make sure that there is not any hassle in the future. In certain cases, few web design company tell you n the mid of the work that it’s hard to do and taking too much time so you need to pay extra. To avoid this, you make a detailed documentation and send to the web site design company.
4. Make an agreement: Once you both agree upon the specification, its advisable to make and agreement. Also clearly mention timeframe of the completion of that project. Because in some cases some website design companies take you so long that you lose your interest and leave your plan in the mid. In that case agreement can be helpful for you.

Acesoftech, the Kolkata based website design company follow the above points so that there is not any problem to the clients in future as well as during the work of the project. Though there is no dearth of web designing company in Kolkata but hardly any one follows these points and ultimate the clients have to incur the loss.

Hope this tutorial may be helpful in  deciding any website deigning company before you spend you hard earned money on your project.

Who does not know Google.  Any one who uses Internet, must be aware of this search engine giant.  Google broke monopoly of once king of Internet, Yahoo and also it shook the root of Microsoft, the king of Operating System and search Engine Company of MSN search. Microsoft and Yahoo got so perplexed  with the success of y Google that they tried many times, though failed so far, to unite together to fight  against  Google.
In short span of time, Google has spread its wing in every section of Internet applications, whether its email (Gmail), social Networking (My Space and Orkut) or Video (YouTube).

Google has acquired such public popularity because of its strong security and user friendly applications. One of such application of Google is, Google Analytics. This application of Google provides the website owner facility through which one can track number of visitors apart from other such features. It has become very popular and now-a-days every website owner wants to integrate this code into ones website.  Also Google has one very popular  application, Google Adsense which is one of the main sources of Google’s revenue. If you login into Google Adsense, you will notice the screen below.

If you check this screen carefully you will find no  any red mark in security lock at right side.

Now double click on the lock and a dialog box will open like below.

If you look at this dialog box, you will find verified by Thawte (Pyt) Ltd.

Now look at this lock. Here you can see a red exclamation mark.

If you double click on this lock this dialog box will open

Here you can see Verified by:  not specified.

I was getting similar error in one of my client’s site. I started checking every code. Because my client did not want that sign on the lock. I got tired finding. I checked each and every part of the code. Finally, I took out Google Search. To my surprise the exclamation red mark on the lock was gone. I still cannot believe that an application of Google can have such unverified mark.