My New Project: LogoGala
Since launching Nice Stylesheet a lot of other inspiration gallery ideas have entered my mind. When your primary skill set is HTML and CSS, it’s difficult to really see all of your ideas to fruition. I’ve got a few ideas that I think could be popular, but no means to develop them as I have zero experience with PHP or any other programming language. An inspiration gallery is not extremely difficult to develop when you’ve got ExpressionEngine helping out, so I figure why not? Also, by developing my own inspiration galleries I can kill two birds with one stone: I can feed my inspiration appetite without searching other galleries and feed my desire to develop new site ideas.
The Project
So, with that said, here’s my newest project: LogoGala. I’m still developing the site behind the scenes, but in the meantime I’m launching a little teaser. I’m allowing people to use their email to sign up to be notified once the site goes live as well as allowing visitors to help me out and send some logos my way so I can start building the gallery.
I realize that starting a logo gallery really isn’t that original of an idea as there’s a couple great galleries already out there, but I felt like the domain name that I acquired was solid and a little competition never hurt anyone, right? It would be different if logo galleries were already to the point where CSS galleries are today, but they are not (yet). There are so many CSS galleries out there that it’s really impossible not to see the same designs on each one. With a logo gallery, there’s more room for competition as to my knowledge, there’s really only two other galleries online at the current time. Also, at least one feature of the LogoGala will differentiate it from the others, so hopefully I can continue to build on that and develop my idea into something useful for everyone out there.
Thoughts?
Feel free to leave me your thoughts in the form of a comment below. If you have any ideas that I could implement on LogoGala, feel free to leave those as well.
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What Brian said is true. So many css / flash galleries but only a few log ones. Wishing the best! 
Posted on Mon Nov 10, 2008
Hi Brian,
Wishing you every success with the new project, and I’m very much looking forward to the live date. Please do notify us here on Random Jabber, and good luck.
Posted on Mon Nov 10, 2008
Congrats for the new project, Deron!
Looking forward to it!
Posted on Wed Nov 12, 2008
Sorry for calling you Brian, Deron!
It must’ve been because I read Brian Purkiss’ comment right before typing. I hope neither of you took offence. 
Posted on Wed Nov 12, 2008
Thanks everyone for the well wishes! I hope I can turn it into something that someone will find useful. I’ll keep everyone posted on the progress (or you can subscribe to the LogoGala twitter feed).
David: No offense taken at all.
Posted on Wed Nov 12, 2008
Hey I’m late to the party but wanted to say I’m excited for LG to launch. I love the splash page btw.
Posted on Tue Nov 18, 2008
David: Project 1071 is live! I’m still trying to get into a regular posting schedule - and there are a few more finishing touches that I want to put on it… but it’s still live! lol
Deron: I am really liking the look of LogoGala… Very nice… I can’t wait for the launch!!!
Again, good luck!!
Posted on Fri Nov 21, 2008
Brian: Project 1071 looks very nice! You know I like the minimal approach and I think you’ve definitely accomplished that. No clutter, I like it!
Thanks for the words on LogoGala. I want to get it online asap but you know how that goes with personal projects. They are never ending. I’ve just about got the homepage where I want it so once I design the internal pages we’ll be ready to rock ‘n roll! Stay tuned.
Posted on Fri Nov 21, 2008
No doubt there are several hundred galleries out there but to be very true, there are few which are useful. Many of them are full of crap. Regarding new projects, I think we always are excited about them but always we loose our interest due to hurdles. I wish for you to get this project completed.
Posted on Tue Dec 23, 2008
Igor: Thanks! I’m hoping to have it ready to go in about a weeks time. Shooting for the first of the new year and I’ll be ready to launch. That’s the plan right now anyway. I’ll definitely post once it goes live.
lamsgf: Thank you. The project will definitely be completed. Hopefully soon!
Posted on Wed Dec 31, 2008
Hi,
You really have a good project. I would like you to post some logo evolution related post here. It will be much helpful. Thanks.
Posted on Thu Jun 11, 2009
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My name is Deron Sizemore and I am a web designer, web publisher, blogger and serial internet entrepreneur living in Lexington, Kentucky.
Awesome!
I think it’s a great idea!
There are far too many logo showcases - especially when comparing it to the over saturated CSS/Flash showcase arena.
Good luck to you!
Posted on Mon Nov 10, 2008