Logo decision to take

Hello everybody,

I recently made a logo contest and I am hesitating between two colors:




Let me know your opinion please!

Note that competitor's website is http://www.academiesherbatov.com/?lang=en
(red blue logo)

 

I really love the one with the red shield. The red goes perfectly with the dark blue background. Great designs you got there! Much better than your competitors' one.

 

bottom right, for sure. no need for the leaf.

 

The red one, keep the maple leaf if you're in Canada, remove it otherwise.

 

We are but I'm not sure about it. It makes the font smaller on website. Need to check if legal too.

 

The red one goes with the design.
The blue needs retouching, especially contrast wise. But would look ultimately better in my (probably unpopular) opinion.
You've kept the blues under the letters in the red design, so why not swap it with red in the blue desing?

 

I decided to go with red no leaf...was a hard choice.

I am not the designer so I can't answer your question ahah.

 

Strangely, your pic and your last sentence seem to match.
It might have been a hard choice, but it was a good one.

If you don't want to "die in ignorance" , I think the idea was to go monocrohamtic. But that red was so strong, it couldn't play the role of a shadow very well. Hence the swap.

 

Here is final result: www.proskaterhockey.com

 

It looks really good now on the site, definitely the red ones were the better choice. Nice work.

 

Blue with the Maple Leaf.

 

I like the right bottom one, good work btw!

 

3rd one is good ..............

 

The top right logo looks good. The red captures my eyes immediately and seeing the full profile of the center skater is better than the one that just shows part of the skater.

Leilani

 

Yeah, the blue blends into the existing blues too much, you need to have a little flare in there to make it 'pop' and the red does so nicely.

Though that massive space wasting "pro skater" text on all those pics? I'd punch someone in the face before allowing that to be deployed on a site. Just saying.

 

that of the logo on the left I love

 

What do you mean?

On the logo or site heather.


Look up the current site update

Www.proskaterhockey.com

 

This pointlessly redundant massive space waster:
http://www.proskaterhockey.com/mediapool/77/772214/resources/big_36906761_0_700-200.jpg

I would axe that. Generally speaking you have a lot of "space wasting" elements that reduce the comment to what's sometimes called a "crappy little stripe" -- you mix in the use of pixel metric fonts, and it feels like a lot of fluff with no substance.

Though that's typical of such outdated sitebuilding methods -- since you've got a fixed width pixel design, fixed size image backgrounds, and a non-responsive non-elastic non-fluid layout. It overall makes the page feel outdated and makes it far less useful to users who don't happen to be at the magical combination of OS, screen size and resolution as the person who designed it.

This is reflected further in the gibberish "tables for layout" code that turns it into a laundry list of how NOT to build a website. There's javascript for nothing, that Dreamweaver "JS to do CSS" job asshattery, tables for nothing, attributes like border, align, vspace, hspace, and cellpadding that have no business on any website written after 1997, static style in the markup, little if anything resembling semantics, presentational images in the markup, zero section headings or semantic dividers, pointless use of entities... it's an inaccessible mess and hardly a shock the home page is wasting 17k of markup on delivering 919 bytes of plaintext and two actual content images -- EASILY six to eight times the code that should have been used to build the page.

MOST of that being easily blamed on the use of some rubbish import from Word (Is that CKedit or TinyMCE?) and the use of the steaming pile of nube predating prarie pies known as Dreamweaver. The ONLY thing you can learn from Dreamweaver is how NOT to build a website.

Or as a dearly departed friend used to say, "The only thing about Dreamweaver that can be considered professional grade tools are the people promoting it's use".

I mean, if I was writing the same page, there is likely little reason it would be much more than this:

<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="fr"><head><meta charset="utf-8">

<meta
	name="viewport"
	content="width=device-width; height=device-height; initial-scale=1"
>

<link
	rel="stylesheet"
	type="text/css"
	href="screen.css"
	media="screen,projection,tv"
>

<title>
	Acceuil - Pro Skater Hockey
</title>

</head><body>

<div id="top">

	<h1>
		<a href="/">
			École de hockey
		</a>
	</h1>

	<ul id="mainMenu">
		<li><a href="/" class="current">Acceul</a></li>
		<li><a href="sessions-a-venir.html">Sessions &agrave; venir</a></li>
		<li><a href="inscriptions.html">Inscriptions</a></li>
		<li><a href="cours-prives.html">Cours Privés</a</li>
		<li><a href="comment-nous-trouver.html">Comment nous trouver</a></li>
	</ul>

	<div id="content">

		<div class="standout">
			COÛT: 35$<br>
			DURÉE: 1H30<br>
			TOUS LES SAMEDIS DE L'ANNÉE
		<!-- .standout --></div>

		<h2>Horaire / Schedule</h2>

		<img
			src="mediapool/77/772214/resources/36906769.jpg"
			alt="DESCRIBE THIS IMAGE!!!"
			class="plate"
		>

		<h3>Mission:</h3>
		<p>
			Devenir la meilleure école d’enseignement d'habileté de patinage et de maniement de rondelles au Québec. Nous souhaitons développer le plus grand nombre de joueurs au meilleur coût offert sur le marché.
		</p>
		<p lang="en">
			Become the best hockey school providing power skating and stickhandling sessions in Quebec. We want to develop as many players we can at the lowest price on the market.
		</p>

		<img
			src="mediapool/77/772214/resources/36906770.jpg"
			alt="DESCRIBE THIS IMAGE!!!"
		>

		<h3>Contenu des cours:</h3>
		<ul>
			<li>Entraînements intenses</li>
			<li>Amélioration de l’équilibre du joueur</li>
			<li>Endurance</li>
			<li>Patin avant</li>
			<li>Patin arriére</li>
			<li>Départ explosif</li>
			<li>Croisés</li>
			<li class="featured">Quick feet</li>
			<li>Cardio</li>
			<li>Accélération</li>
			<li>Technique de poussée</li>
			<li>Maniement de rondelle</li>
			<li>Full-ice drills</li>
		</ul>

	<!-- #content --></div>

	<hr>

	<a href="#top" class="topLink">Retour au Sommet</a>

<!-- #top --></div>

</body></html>

Code (markup):

Which at 2.1k is, well... less than an EIGHTH the code despite not being whitespace stripped/minified. EVERYTHING else being done on that page would go into the CSS, not the HTML -- and there is NOTHING being done on that page that even warrants the presence of JavaScript!

You've been led down the garden path by tools that might seem simple, but make an utter and complete mess of things... basically they delude you into thinking you can build a website before you've had the time to learn what a website actually is.

 

Woah that's a lot of technical term and philosophy about websites. I am using a user friendly cheap website host. What do you suggest me to do in my senario. I am a noob in java and programming website. I don't think I have access to my host's java but I can check...

I understand what you meant by the picture are full of non relevant information. What should I do to correct my stuff!

 

Definitely the bottom right. I would recommend going with wordpress for a website like this. The available themes and plugins would make things much easier on you in the long run.