Website Progress

A couple of changes from last time

Building a better t shirt business

Entering into an already saturated t shirt market is hard.  It's even harder when you look at big companies that have been doing it for years, and think there is no way i can compete with that. Always remember that they started small time too.

Check out this website I stumbled across.

It is an internet archive website where you are able to look at websites when they first opened up for business, and every month afterward.  Search for your favorite t shirt companies and see how bad they looked when they first started.  If this doesn't give you inspiration, nothing will.

My website design (unfinished)

I'm nowhere near done with it, but I wanted to show the difference in a professional looking website and a not so professional looking website (logolofts).

Website Try 1 from TheLogoLoft

This was the first revision that i received yesterday...

I'm not going to lie i was disgusted by this.  This was thrown together in probably less than thirty minutes, and took them four days to get to me.  The red behind obstructees contradicts with logo, the newsletter and shopping cart are the most prominent things on the page, the banner is smooshed up in the right corner, the shopping cart links are obviously taken from a template, the "this week... only 15.95" is a trainwreck, it looks like the shirt below it is for sale.  There's about five different fonts being used... The list goes on but i figured thats all i was going to change for now.

I wrote them everything i wanted different, but as soon as i got done i opened up Photoshop and started making it myself.   

Oh they also sent me a business card design that looked like the top of the website... i'll end up redoing that too.  So if you're reading this blog looking to start your own website, i DO NOT recommend TheLogoLoft.

Final Logo

Finally got the logo done. I recieved the last design today and opened it up in Illustrator as soon as I got. Changed the colors around and tweaked some gradients. Overall i'm happy with it. When i first saw it after my changes and thought it looked like a mix between the GameStop and GuitarHero logo. Oh well it will work.

Building the website starts tommorow!

Logo Revision #3

Well a new logo in just one day. It's close but not perfect yet. I asked them to take the shine/shimmer off the symbol and grunge it up. Then take off the black fill inside the symbol and just make it clear. I also liked the sheep on the right and asked them to put a white stroke around it. So this should be the last revision and I can't wait to see what the final revision will look like.

New Logo

So i got my new logo in today and they have been working on the wrong symbol...

I like the text and colors but i wanted a different symbol instead of the shirt and the O. Oh well thats fine, i have unlimited revisions. Another 3-5 business days until i have another revision.

....AH SO CLOSE.

Off subject, but i started posting pictures of me and my friends in my shirts on facebook. It's creating quite a buzz and getting people curious about what i'm doing.

SHIRTS!!!

Well I just got back from College Station and picked up my T shirts from CC Creations!


They look absolutely incredible, and I couldn't be any happier with the quality of the shirts and the printing. I spent the majority of the weekend taking pictures of my friends and I in the shirts, and imported them all into Adobe Lightroom. If you don't know about Lightroom, it's an awesome program that is used to catalog pictures. Not to mention you can edit RAW images.

A little tip when taking pictures of people. Take LOTS of pictures. I took 600 pictures of only three shirts. From those 600 i'm using 15.