LogoPixy and DockMarket's sibling rivalry

It's been way too long since I've posted here. For the past month or so, my evening project time has been taken up primarily with getting another site called DockMarket.net up and running. It is a dockage classifieds site that allows people to post slips (a.k.a. docks in boating-speak) and mark them precisely on Google satellite maps. While this may not sound like rocket science (and it isn't), as of this writing there are no other such sites that do true mapping for slips. Since the location of a slip is so important to prospective buyers or renters, I decided to create a site to satisfy the need.



In the next week, I should get to some much-needed maintenance to LogoPixy. Two things that will be coming soon are the ability to show off your header image on the homepage, and a Javascript Image Replacement API I've been working on. More on these soon!

Changes!

After too few hours to work on it, I've finally posted a handful of useful modifications to the site. You can add:

LogoPixy has launched!

I deployed the site about a week ago and have made a lot of changes since then. My motivation for creating the site was a lack of free resources for creating simple site logos without having to scout the free font sites, download one, and create an image in Photoshop or the Gimp. For a professional designer, this is something they can do in their sleep, but for the average Joe (or even Joe Geek), it takes at least 15 minutes. I think for simple header images this should be a much faster process because it's computationally not difficult or expensive.

I am a bit concerned about drawing the ire of serious designers because LogoPixy is intentionally meant to be simple and fast to use, and the logos created will not rival those of professional designers. For instance, there is no way to use the site to recreate the Unilever logo. The more appropriate title of the site might be HeaderPixy, but that didn't have the same ring.

Please let me know what improvements you would like to see. This is definitely a work in progress and I'm having fun working on it. This is an evening project for me and I foresee working on it as long as it stays interesting.

Peace,

Barry