Comments on: Saturday Night Rant – Link your Logo! http://www.centernetworks.com/saturday-night-rant-link-your-logo Web 2 and Social Media News and Reviews Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:27:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: centernetworks http://www.centernetworks.com/saturday-night-rant-link-your-logo#comment-11270 centernetworks Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-11270 <p>I agree with you Jimmy - I am not 100% sold it is always lazyness but probably 80% because people want to get the product out and the client most of the time has no idea.</p><p>I have been working with some clients trying to help them optimize their sites - the coding is absolute horsesh**. Whoever took money for this code should be shot on scene. </p> I agree with you Jimmy – I am not 100% sold it is always lazyness but probably 80% because people want to get the product out and the client most of the time has no idea.

I have been working with some clients trying to help them optimize their sites – the coding is absolute horsesh**. Whoever took money for this code should be shot on scene.

]]> By: Jimmy http://www.centernetworks.com/saturday-night-rant-link-your-logo#comment-11284 Jimmy Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-11284 Another great topic. I do agree with the logo = home concept. I don't, however, allow people to say it's because of their CSS. Every web document is exactly that; a document. HTML markup should have a specific purpose. When viewing your page without style, it should make sense and appear as a plain document. Unfortunately this isn't always possible, but of all the companies you linked (I only looked at 3), none of them had valid, semantic markup. Your main logo should always be the only h1 on the page. Pop a link inside of that h1, hide the link text and set the h1 background to be your company logo and the issue is solved. Simple as that. The problem comes when they put drop shadows on their logos and pair that up with a background pattern; you're never guaranteed the logo bg pattern to match it's container's background, so they make it all one big image. In other words, they're lazy. Lazy, I say! :) Another great topic.

I do agree with the logo = home concept. I don’t, however, allow people to say it’s because of their CSS.

Every web document is exactly that; a document. HTML markup should have a specific purpose. When viewing your page without style, it should make sense and appear as a plain document. Unfortunately this isn’t always possible, but of all the companies you linked (I only looked at 3), none of them had valid, semantic markup.

Your main logo should always be the only h1 on the page. Pop a link inside of that h1, hide the link text and set the h1 background to be your company logo and the issue is solved. Simple as that. The problem comes when they put drop shadows on their logos and pair that up with a background pattern; you’re never guaranteed the logo bg pattern to match it’s container’s background, so they make it all one big image.

In other words, they’re lazy. Lazy, I say! :)

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