Check out the new Website of Year logo!

[David P. Valley]

Originally Posted by krichardson

Well, duh!! Of course it does. My website is the winner of the 2008 award. There will NOT be another 2008 award issued.

That is why I designed one for 2009 and maybe 2010, etc.

What's your point?

Kevin

Kevin,

It's not worth it. No need for a pis$ing match regarding logo's.

You did a fantastic job in designing these logo's and if they weren't approved (which is a joke)...I'd be very surprised.

[William Warner]

Originally Posted by dvalley

Kevin,

It's not worth it. No need for a pis$ing match regarding logo's.

You did a fantastic job in designing these logo's and if they weren't approved (which is a joke)...I'd be very surprised.

Thanks for the confidence vote David.

Kevin's designs are very nice indeed.
I'll be the first to admit that the design I came up with (the currently approved logo) doesn't even compare to these which Kevin has submitted. It was quickly designed and implemented since this award was thrown in our laps and we needed to get the program moving quickly. I was not awfully fond of the original logo, but never got back to do anything different with it. We obviously have much greater talent on this board than I have with such matters. I simply have not had the time to create new versions myself.
The reason why we want to keep the logo within the awards committee and not release it to everyone in the general public (such as all the other NACHI logos and seals which are available to members) was to keep order and provide a "coveted" logo. I mentioned this before.
I know personally that some of your own work and images have been lifted from your site (and most likely without your approval) as you have imbedded text in you graphics. I discovered this from a site I was working on for another inspector and conveniently did not transfer the image for this reason.
We have inspectors innappropriately using the education provider and preferred vendor seals throughout our membership.
If it is your wish (as well as others) to release the web site award logos to the general public for their general use, then we have efectively reduced the meaning of this award. Same with just creating your own version of the award willy nilly. JMHO
You have to apply for your 5 star rated IR site logo correct?
It means something does it not?
If it was available to the general public for general use it would mean far less would it not?
I have ideas to prevent theft of the web award logos, but appears no one is really concerned about that.

[Kevin A. Richardson]

Originally Posted by wwarner

Thanks for the confidence vote David.

Kevin's designs are very nice indeed.
I'll be the first to admit that the design I came up with (the currently approved logo) doesn't even compare to these which Kevin has submitted. It was quickly designed and implemented since this award was thrown in our laps and we needed to get the program moving quickly. I was not awfully fond of the original logo, but never got back to do anything different with it. We obviously have much greater talent on this board than I have with such matters. I simply have not had the time to create new versions myself.
The reason why we want to keep the logo within the awards committee and not release it to everyone in the general public (such as all the other NACHI logos and seals which are available to members) was to keep order and provide a "coveted" logo. I mentioned this before.
I know personally that some of your own work and images have been lifted from your site (and most likely without your approval) as you have imbedded text in you graphics. I discovered this from a site I was working on for another inspector and conveniently did not transfer the image for this reason.
We have inspectors innappropriately using the education provider and preferred vendor seals throughout our membership.
If it is your wish (as well as others) to release the web site award logos to the general public for their general use, then we have efectively reduced the meaning of this award. Same with just creating your own version of the award willy nilly. JMHO
You have to apply for your 5 star rated IR site logo correct?
It means something does it not?
If it was available to the general public for general use it would mean far less would it not?
I have ideas to prevent theft of the web award logos, but appears no one is really concerned about that.

All valid points and I agree. You are doing a good job.

These logos are for INACHI and the awards committee for the exclusive use of those Inspectors who received the award from the awards committee.

I personally like the idea of somehow preventing theft of the logos. We should not have to take such measures, but their are some who feel that it is OK to take a word, sentence, logo, image, from another Inspectors site and use as they see fit.

I know first hand what that feels like. Their are several inspectors here that have copied word for word the text from my ITI site. I know this as I have used CopyScape to find who they are!!

Again, keep up the good work.

Kevin

[whandley]

Originally Posted by krichardson

Well, duh!! Of course it does. My website is the winner of the 2008 award. There will NOT be another 2008 award issued.

That is why I designed one for 2009 and maybe 2010, etc.

What's your point?

Kevin

Calm down Kevin;

I assumed since it was an INACHI award, it might have propriatary features and color scheme as does most everything else INACHI is involved in.

I had no idea each winner would design their own award logo. That being said, it appears to be perfect!

[W. Michael Chris]

Great looking logo(s) Kevin, hope the committee adopts them and congrats on being last years winner.

[Kevin A. Richardson]

Originally Posted by badair

better do it quick
i win...i will of course take this down but the vultures are on the wire...another texas inspector is using some of my graphics as we speak...

What you really need is a "Member of the Year" logo

Kevin

[David P. Valley]

Originally Posted by wwarner

I know personally that some of your own work and images have been lifted from your site (and most likely without your approval) as you have imbedded text in you graphics. I discovered this from a site I was working on for another inspector and conveniently did not transfer the image for this reason.

William,

No offense, but I'm surprised to find that you didn't even attempt to contact me (a fellow iNACHI member) to warn me of this action. I would have notified you if I ran into any sort of plagiarism attempt.

Anyways, keep up the good work that you are performing on the Awards committee. When Kevin's logo is finalized, I intend on utilizing it for my past website awards in 2005 and 2007.

Yes, it would be nice to have these logo's designed appropriately in order to prevent/avoid theft. I'm glad to see that you are volunteering your time to make this happen.

Good Luck.

[Barry Adair]

Originally Posted by krichardson

What you really need is a "Member of the Year" logo

Kevin

thanks but i'm where i'm at...unless the Awards Committee offers up something...enuff going on with this....

btw: congrats again and nice artwork

[Kevin A. Richardson]

Originally Posted by badair

thanks but i'm where i'm at...unless the Awards Committee offers up something...enuff going on with this....

btw: congrats again and nice artwork

Oh, don't think for a second that I was offering to design a logo. I've gotten enough flack from just trying to be helpful.

After these logos, I'm done. I'm going to stick to my day job

Kevin

[Barry Adair]

Originally Posted by krichardson

Oh, don't think for a second that I was offering to design a logo. I've gotten enough flack from just trying to be helpful.

After these logos, I'm done. I'm going to stick to my day job

Kevin

what a GREAT CONCEPT...but thanx for almost offering your services lmao

[Kevin A. Richardson]

Originally Posted by badair

what a GREAT CONCEPT...but thanx for almost offering your services lmao

You're the best, Barry

Now, I have to go and get ready for my day. I'm meeting with my business coach today. I think the topic today will be how to unplug from this MB and stop wasting so much time here. Every time I say I'm going to take a break, I get sucked back in. Love this Org, but the MB can be time consuming and unproductive.

I have no one to blame but me.......

Kevin

[Barry Adair]

Originally Posted by krichardson

Oh, don't think for a second that I was offering to design a logo. I've gotten enough flack from just trying to be helpful.

After these logos, I'm done. I'm going to stick to my day job

Kevin

what a GREAT CONCEPT...but thanx for almost offering your services lmao

[William Warner]

Kevin you have mail.