B man
Tecumseh FTW!
TBH
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lol I have copyright on that!
Do we have a logo or a patch?
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lol I have copyright on that!
souperman000
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We could water-mark all of the pictures that pop up on google images when you search for "Go Kart" or some variation, I have noticed that Google is a big way new members find the site. Then when they look at the pics, they see our site and want to come check it out to see more pics (in a perfect world at least 
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Just a thought, for some more advertising
)Just a thought, for some more advertising
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I suggest a crest similar to what Harvard University rock. But it should identify itself with karts etc!
http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/files/images/Harvard-logo_60.jpg
So we break the crest up into quarters then have a steering wheel in one section, a screw driver in one, a helmet in one section and a wheel in the other.
We use three colors
E.g Orange, Yellow and White!
And across the ribbon we have DIYGOKARTS
This way you have something easy to replicate and make it easy to transfer or stick on alot of other things. Cars, clothes / other forums avatars.
Plus you should try to go for more of an establishment feel. (i.e. Advocating people come here to learn and expand their hobby)
Like my friends site has a good logo
http://collegeoflifemanship.blogspot.co.uk/
This then also goes with that home brew concept someone mentioned earlier.
http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/files/images/Harvard-logo_60.jpg
So we break the crest up into quarters then have a steering wheel in one section, a screw driver in one, a helmet in one section and a wheel in the other.
We use three colors
E.g Orange, Yellow and White!
And across the ribbon we have DIYGOKARTS
This way you have something easy to replicate and make it easy to transfer or stick on alot of other things. Cars, clothes / other forums avatars.
Plus you should try to go for more of an establishment feel. (i.e. Advocating people come here to learn and expand their hobby)
Like my friends site has a good logo
http://collegeoflifemanship.blogspot.co.uk/
This then also goes with that home brew concept someone mentioned earlier.
OzFab
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... on what exactly
We could water-mark all of the pictures that pop up on google images when you search for "Go Kart" or some variation, I have noticed that Google is a big way new members find the site. Then when they look at the pics, they see our site and want to come check it out to see more pics (in a perfect world at least
Just a thought, for some more advertising
Good point but, if you were to open an image to get a better look it would lead you to the site anyway
That's not exactly a bad idea. Why not have a go & see what you can come up with.
B.M.800
TheBeal.
What about having a stick man welding on something that resembles a kart. Like how you see construction signs with a guy shoveling or something...
Stikly Man!
Stikly Man!
r_chez_08
Should be in the shop...
These are all great ideas! I would have a go, but I am not that great at that sort of thing.
I know OMB have there own stickers, like the one that toystory has on his car. If someone could get a load of the logos made up and then we could paypal them for shipping and vinyl costs. I have access to a vinyl cutter but it would be better being someone in the US because that is where most members are based. Dunno.
I like your idea BM. I might actually have a go at designing one tiniest, changed my mind.
I know OMB have there own stickers, like the one that toystory has on his car. If someone could get a load of the logos made up and then we could paypal them for shipping and vinyl costs. I have access to a vinyl cutter but it would be better being someone in the US because that is where most members are based. Dunno.
I like your idea BM. I might actually have a go at designing one tiniest, changed my mind.
DS13
Annoying the Neighbors!!!
I think I'm gonna take some plate and plasma cut out a logo or the website address and weld it to the side or something
B man
Tecumseh FTW!
When you just changed the Placements of Go-Karts in that logo i made. and how toystory gave you credit for its design. I was joking i had copyright on that logo i made. lol
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Aww, CRAP! I'm sorry, Bman- I had skimmed the thread, just letting my eyes land on logos and did not realize that you had first posted the image before Fabro played with it!
devino246
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How's this, Chris? Also, without the helmet.
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Doc Sprocket
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Pretty cool! Got any other ideas to pitch?
devino246
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Might try a 3-spoke wheel/tire combo as the O in gokart. I'll have to change the font for that, though.
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Had another thought. Can you get a "www." in there, and tuck the wrench in behind the lettering, connecting both dots? Maybe on a 30-45* angle?
devino246
Official DIYGK Chem Nerd
I'll try it. I'll have to cut the center section of the wrench out so the words are still readable.
souperman000
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or you could put the www. on the same line as the DIY is on, just move it over a little
devino246
Official DIYGK Chem Nerd
In all fairness, the "www" pretext is 100% useless in every way, shape, and form.
OzFab
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Aww, CRAP! I'm sorry, Bman- I had skimmed the thread, just letting my eyes land on logos and did not realize that you had first posted the image before Fabro played with it!
I didn't do it! It was his fault
Doc Sprocket
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Yeah, I've been wondering about that. My wife just got her craft website up- and there's absolutely nothing in front of it- it's just like "whatever.com". No "www", no "http", nothing. Never seen that before...
Yup. All you need to do nowadays is type in the whatever.com. Your browser just fills in the rest
devino246
Official DIYGK Chem Nerd
It's not even a modern thing. The "www" pretext is actually a subdomain of your site. It's initial use was accidental and it just caught on. One webhost I had for a while used a folder called "www" as your root folder. Typing in the site name without the pretext, you were redirected to the www folder.
The URL of a site is arranged in a logical order:
http://www.sitename.com
Working backwards:
.com- This is a generic Top Level Domain (gTLD). .COM and a few other gTLD's are registered through ICANN. They're responsible for maintaining the Domain Name System (DNS), the connections between your domain name and your site's IP address.
sitename- This is the site's domain name. Not a whole lot to it. It's registered through a registrar who registers it through ICANN.
www- Anything between the "http://" and the domain name is a subdomain. ie: mobile.facebook.com. As such, "www" is a subdomain of the site. Like I said, useless.
http://- Hyper Text Transfer Protocall. This is the method your computer uses to send and recieve information via the web. Browsers add this in automatically if you don't type it, and some browsers, like Chrome, don't display it in the URL field.
So basically, the system works backwards(excluding the http); smallest on the left, largest on the right...until you get to subdomains inside subdomains, in which case the order is reversed.
FWIW, I have 2 .COM's, 2 .ORG's, and a .US. The .ORG's are just XHTML & CSS, the others are written in PHP which dynamically writes the XHTML. When I submitted them to Google to be crawled, I didn't include the "www" cause there's no point.
I encourage everyone to do a little researching about the internet. Besides the fact that some may find it intriguing, you use it every day! Might as well understand how it works.
Oh, also, IPV6 was unleashed yesterday.
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