While creating a logo if it’s for your site allows for expanding your creativity, many times you’ll feel even more constricted than other aspects of your site’s design. The reason is that it can be difficult to completely come up with a design out of thin air that completely grasps what your site is about. If you have a client that has already given you ideas then you have nothing to worry about. If not, then remember these safe tips for creating an effective and sound design.

- Simplicity makes the concept of your design easier to translate for your visitors. While having an amazing logo is great, if people aren’t translating what it means then you have a useless image taking up space.

- Keep the colors to minimum. While seeing a rainbow after it rains is nice, that doesn’t mean you want every colors of said rainbow showing up in your logo.

- Logos are about taking the concept of site, or business and creating an image that will last with people. So, be sure that a connection between what your site is about and the logo is made.