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15 Essential Checks Before Launching Your Website - Smashing Magazine. Advertisement Your website is designed, the CMS works, content has been added and the client is happy.

15 Essential Checks Before Launching Your Website - Smashing Magazine

It’s time to take the website live. Or is it? When launching a website, you can often forget a number of things in your eagerness to make it live, so it’s useful to have a checklist to look through as you make your final touches and before you announce your website to the world. This article reviews some important and necessary checks that web-sites should be checked against before the official launch — little details are often forgotten or ignored, but – if done in time – may sum up to an overall greater user experience and avoid unnecessary costs after the official site release. Favicon A favicon brands the tab or window in which your website is open in the user’s browser. And if you have an iPhone favicon: Titles And Meta Data Your page title is the most important element for SEO and is also important so that users know what’s on the page.

Cross-Browser Checks Proofread Read everything. “Where do people find the time?” - Violent Acres. 30 Clever Logos With Hidden Symbolism. I am sure every panda enjoyed laughing at Top 15 Worst Logo FAILS ever but let’s be fair here, and look at some of the best logo design examples.

30 Clever Logos With Hidden Symbolism

To be more specific, let’s have a look at creative Logos With Hidden Messages. As we wrote earlier, the first feature of a good and effective logo is that it can immediately “grab” viewer’s attention. A good way to do so is by giving viewers a little puzzle to solve. Everyone likes puzzles, right? When viewers get the hidden message behind the logo, there’s this instant little satisfaction feeling, and something fun likes this gets people talking and sharing. Even if the viewer cannot see anything hidden at first sight, the second somebody explains it to him will make the logo stick into his head for a long time.

Now let’s jump to the list of the most creative and clever Logos With Hidden Symbolism, and learn from the best! 1. Circus tent looks like a magazine (more like a book to me, but still very clever). 40 More Clever Logos With Hidden Symbolism. You probably already think that we are obsessed with logo design (and you’re probably right), but our numbers show that most of you guys enjoy logos as much as we do.

40 More Clever Logos With Hidden Symbolism

That’s why we proudly present 40 more clever logos with hidden symbolism. If you missed part I, you can find it here. But before you start scrolling down the list, let me quickly run trough the list of logotype posts we had earlier: Top 15 Worst Logo FAILS Ever, 21 Logo Evolutions of the World’s Well Known Logo Designs, and Honest Logos by Viktor Hertz. You may open them somewhere in a new browser tab and continue from here. [Read more...] Oh, and don’t forget to tell us which logo design you liked or hated most!

1. Letters “c” are also cat’s eyes. 2. A swarm of bees forming a “B”. 3. The mouse cursor and the dot forms a sign of a female. 4. There’s a hidden tie in the logo. 5. The golf ball is lit like a moon. 6. The missing puzzle part is also a pictogram of a human. 7. Both letters “i” are missing.