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Using AI to Create Logos

elizabethm — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 14:12:04 +0000

Recently, I wanted to do a refresh of my website as I had been busy with other projects and it had become slightly dated. As I started to lookup the tools aand websites I normally used for inspiration, it became clear that AI has changed the landscape far beyond just using ChatGPT’s Dall-E. Which I have had mixed results with.

I wanted a simple text logo for my site. These are the sites Ii tried and the results.

Need a Logo?

elizabethm — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 16:59:02 +0000

One of the first items that you'll need when you develop a website is a logo. Why? A logo will represent the style of your website which can include font, graphic and color choices. A logo will be the design foundation for your website.

How to get a logo? These go from least expensive and easiest to the more effort and money required. Pick the one that meets your taste and requirements.

Logo Maker tool
Crowd Source logo site
Custom by your Website Designer
Custom by a Graphic Designer

We are going to talk about the first method in this post.

Logo Maker Tools

There are lots of great sites that will generate a logo for you based on your inputs or help you with the process. Let's take a look at a few of them. I'll be making a logo for my coding class website to test them out.

Tailor Brands Logo Maker
Canva
Design Evo
Hatchful
Looka
Hatchful
DesignHill
LogoMaker

Tailor Brands Logo Maker

Tailor Brands has a slick and easy to use interface. You enter your the following information:

logo name and an optional tag line
What your website is offering (physical goods, services, hospitality, content, tech or other)
Your industry from a set list and a short description of your company.
Choose icon based, name based or initial based for the logo type.
If you choose icon based, it will prompt you for a geometric shape or to search for an icon.
Choose 3 styles that you like from a long list of font types.

Here's what I got!

Canva

Canva is more of a tool to help you design then a creator of logos. But it is easy to use and the graphics are slick. You can edit the graphic by changing colors, fonts and adding elements. When I search by cat coding - I got these suggestions:

DesignEvo

This logomaker is simple to use but has some fun options. Simply enter search words or click on categories to see a slate of possible logos.

Hatchful

This logo maker comes courtesy of Shopify - it prompts you for the following:

Industry
Visual Style
Logo name and tagline
Where the logo will be used

Since they didn't really ask for an icon - I choose the Pet industry to see if I could get some cats. You can choose one and edit to change colors, icons and other design elements. Here's the base list that I got.

Looka

The Looka Logo Maker is another slick tool that uses Artificial Intelligence to generate a logo. It asks for the following inputs:

Logo Name & tagline
Industry
Pick 5 or more logos you like from a gallery of possible logos
Colors
Symbols

You can customize the results by changing colors, symbols, layout and elements. You will need to create an account to see and work with the final results. Here's some of mine:

Wix

While Wix is mainly known as a web host provider and tool, they also have a logo maker. You will need to create an account to work with it.

It starts by asking if you want to be paired with a professional designer - or make your own. We are opting to make our own. It then prompts for the following information:

Logo name and tagline
What industry - what I like about this one is "coding class" is an option!
Look & feel - pick the style of your logo from several categories.
It asks you to choose which logos you like out of several to get a feel for your preference

Initially, I got rather stock tech images as shown below:

But, then I changed the icon to a cat since my website is aimed at teens and has a more whimsical feel. Then, I got this:

DesignHill

Designhill starts off with asking for your company name.

It then asks you to pick 5 or more design styles you like from a selection of logos.
Next, it asks for you to pick a palette of colors that you like - none of the others asked me this!
Finally it asks for the logo name, tagline, industry and your budget. There is an option for $0.
Then you can add a symbol. Note: there cat symbols were almost identical to Tailor Brand.

Here's what I got. However, I had to sign in and create an account before I got these and it is unclear at this point if I will have to pay to use them. As you can see, many have a name screened on them.

LogoMaker

LogoMaker is a more simplistic tool but might be your speed.

Enter indsutry type, logo name, tagline and logo type on first screen.
Select a style - initial, icon, badge, text
Choose three font styles but from a limited set
Choose three layout styles - again a limited set.

Intro: WordPress and Content Management Systems

elizabethm — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 00:48:47 +0000

What is a Content Management System?

There are lots of ways to describe them but essentially a Content Management System — or CMS as they are commonly called — is a tool used to build and maintain a website that doesn’t require a high degree of technical skill. Or to put it more simply you do not need to know how to program to create a website. Now, programming skills can come in handy and you do need to be technically adept. But, with the CMS of today you can create a fairly complicated site with forms, eCommerce, users and complicated page layouts – without knowing how to code – or even HTML or CSS.

What is that? Basically a web application that makes it easier to build websites.

Eliminates (mostly!) the need to know HTML, CSS and other techie skills such as JavaScript, PHP, and SQL. Though it can still be very helpful to know those to do behind the scenes work or customization.
You can create websites more quickly this way and they are much, much easier to maintain.
WordPress is the dominant open source CMS. Want to see what webites have been create in WordPress? Click here.
Others CMS that are used include: Drupal, Joomla and then a bunch more…ModX, Craft, Perch, …and on and on…

Market Share

Depending on the source, WordPress has anywhere from 40-65% of the market. What does that mean? That about half of all websites are built using WordPress. As of April 2020 – the estimates are at about 60%.
Joomla and Drupal are traditional CMS like WordPress. They used to have about 10% of the market each five years ago – now Joomla is at about 4% and Drupal is at about 3%.
Other CMS-lite tools have become popular with Shopify, Squarespace, Wix, Bitrix, BLogger and Magento each having about 2-3% of the market.
If you learn WordPress, it will be easier to find work.
If you build your website with WordPress, it will be easier to find people to maintain & fix it.

All well and good – but why is WordPress so popular?

Focus: In the beginning, WordPress was designed to solve just one single problem – blogging. It wasn’t trying to be all things to all people and it started with just that.
Ease of Use:
- Easiest to install, setup and start using. Especially the backend part!
- Committed to users
- Driven by content people not techies.

The Blog factor: Since WordPress was originally designed for blogs, it is very easy to use to create websites that are blogs. Therefore, a huge percentage of simple blogs are create in WordPress. The chart to the right shows the breakout in WordPress sites.

Frontend vs Backend

elizabethm — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 14:00:29 +0000

Front End, BackEnd or Full Stack – What do these terms mean.

Front End: what the user sees – basically the browser. Mainly how content is presented – making sure it is useable.
- Tools needed: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Photo Editing
Back End: all the other stuff! What makes a program happen. This is server side and is focused on getting the right data to the browser.
- Database skills, e-commerce, programming, security
Full Stack: basically this means that a developer can do Front End and Back End development to create a whole end-to-end, cohesive application.