Homemade Logo - Your comments please

[yougottakickalittle]

Ok... I thought about this for 10 seconds longer and decided I needed to follow up to my fourth point in my reply.

To be honest, you really, really need to rethink your colors and fonts. Your lower case letter "S" at the bottom of your page is an exact duplicate of the 1930's-40's era Nazi "SS" signature. Your black, red and white colors only makes that association even more painfully obvious.

I didn't want to share this thought with you, and instead wanted you to make up your own mind. But this is a really bad business move on your part.

You can laugh at my suggestion if you want. But your duplicating the Nazi-esque font isn't something I dreamed up. Go check some reference materials online and you'll see what I mean.

[mjtaylor]

Dave, I liked your review. Short, sweet, to the point.

Short, yes, to the point, agreed. But sweet?

[Dubbya]

Looks like crap.
Hire a professional.

LOL!! I laugh every time I read that.

Dave, I love the way you don't mince words. You're the greatest!

[nuksies]

you're all so harsh but I have to agree, the border around the 'A' looks terrible and the name underneath, well, not to sure at all about the font. Its quite ugly and you shouldnt have a vertical logo, it makes the header of the web-page to large and a bit stupid looking.
Instead, make it a horizontal style logo. To be honest, start again right from the start.
I was once told, you can't polish a turd, the same goes for you!

[mjtaylor]

you're all so harsh but I have to agree, the border around the 'A' looks terrible and the name underneath, well, not to sure at all about the font. Its quite ugly and you shouldnt have a vertical logo, it makes the header of the web-page to large and a bit stupid looking.
Instead, make it a horizontal style logo. To be honest, start again right from the start.
I was once told, you can't polish a turd, the same goes for you!

And some are harsher than others ... yes, we are a little tactless in our criticisms around here, though I have to say, I would rather be told the unpleasant truth rather than not learn what's really wrong with my work.
The turd reference does rather take the cake, though!

Cheers, MJ

[reverend_mikey]

you're all so harsh but I have to agree, the border around the 'A' looks terrible and the name underneath, well, not to sure at all about the font. Its quite ugly and you shouldnt have a vertical logo, it makes the header of the web-page to large and a bit stupid looking.
Instead, make it a horizontal style logo. To be honest, start again right from the start.
I was once told, you can't polish a turd, the same goes for you!

Are you not the same guy (or girl) who posted a logo for their driving school and then took offense when we gave you our non-harsh opinions? You seem to be able to dish it out but suck at taking it. And no one called your design a turd, stupid looking, or anything bad.

[cw1865]

You know when I looked at it at first, I focused in on the 'A' and frankly thought it was ok, but then I realized that the 'D' was right next to it and that wasn't immediately obvious to me. Actually the first thing that came to my mind was 'Target' - but yes, the image quality isn't there and the font below is jagged.

If you're not artistic, pay for the logo. Know when to defer to the expertise of others.