FreewareWire - Nice small freeware review site plus some homemade utilities

[mouser]

DC member hewhoeatspie has recently shared with us a few cool new little freeware utilities he's made.  Turns out he also writes a neat little freeware review blog called FreewareWire.

I note that in his sidebar he lists a few things he'd like help with, including a logo design, so if any graphics guru feels like giving it a shot, it would be a nice gesture!

http://freewarewire.blogspot.com

[hewhoeatspie]

Aw, Thanks, Mouser! I really appreciate the attention!

Yes, a logo really would be greatly appreciated.

[hamradio]

Let me see what I can create as far as a logo goes.

[hamradio]

Here we go for a first prototype: http://carrolld.dcmembers.com/lab/freewarewire_logo_all_p1.png  

[hewhoeatspie]

Hey! I like it! The only thing that I would ask is can you maybe put some more emphasis on the F and the W? Otherwise, it's perfect.

[hamradio]

Which color do you prefer before I start messing with the F and W?

[gexecuter]

Nice blog! plain but it gets the job done...just like mine O:

[hewhoeatspie]

Which color do you prefer before I start messing with the F and W?

Probably Orange.

[Loki15]

I'll work on a quick prototype for you.

[hamradio]

Here we go for a second prototype with the orange coloring: http://carrolld.dcmembers.com/lab/freewarewire_logo_all_p2.png ;

[mouser]

maybe the F and W could be slightly redder to draw attention to them.. just an idea.

[hamradio]

Here we go for a third prototype with the orange coloring taken a little further than second prototype: http://carrolld.dcmembers.com/lab/freewarewire_logo_all_p3.png ;

[Loki15]

My first attempt, can't say I like it too much.. You tell me what you think. Ham's is better XP
http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn208/Waltman25/FWWLogo.png

The text laying over the right side of the image is just a watermark and the grey things on the orange pieces are like buttons? Just kinda doodling, per say.

[hewhoeatspie]

I like it! Thanks, Loki!

I've been thinking about it lately (I haven't had internet the last two days,) and I was thinking that maybe I would like the logo to have a wire somewhere in it? Like maybe the F would be made of a wire splitting, or something. I just would maybe like something more exciting than just text (no offense).

I know I'm being kinda picky...but I really don't mind that much.

[Loki15]

What if the F and W were converted to hollow fonts that I applied a metal colored gradient too?

[hewhoeatspie]

Um, that would be good.  I'm really bad at graphic design, so I'm just lucky if I can understand a small amount of what you just said.

[Loki15]

Haha I made a design with the letters hanging on a wire, my oh my, it looked horrible.