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This exciting story happen to FamousBloggers in the age of 7 months and the result was redesigning the logo of the blog, it’s a sign that our blog is going more stronger, reached a wider range of audiences and became one of the visible blogs in the marketing and business world. This post will show you how our blog visitors, readers and bloggers are incredibly active, and how they can really change things to better by giving honest feedback that we love so much.

Sometimes I think I am living and breathing feedback from the community, and when I say community I mean the internet or the whole Online Community, I have received an email from Johan who is an active and loyal member of Compiz community, this happened last week, Johan asked me in his email why I am using the logo of Compiz, and why I am stealing, I was shocked because I thought I understand what I am doing, but unfortunately I was not!

I remember that I have read the license of the icon I was using to create FamousBloggers logo: “Free for non commercial use” and it’s designed by Oliver Scholtz.

I went again to the age trying to read and understand, actually license is a matter that still confusing me, and there is a big difference between what you understand today and what you have realized 7 months latter.

After I received that email, I contacted with Martin of IconFinder immediately asking him whether if I am allowed to use that icon in my blog logo design or not, he kindly replied to me in no time telling me that I probably can NOT use it as a logo for my blog!

That was so sad, but what to do?!

I have register to the Compiz forum and posted a new post there to tell people what I did and if it’s wrong or what, but I didn’t got any reply till the moment, it seems that they don’t care or maybe they are busy with other stuff, so… anyways it’s OK!

I was Shocked

It’s actually shocking, but maybe it was expected, I don’t know! probably I don’t want to go through all the boring design work of editing and redesigning every single graphic or banner I have created using that icon since the last 7 months, it’s kind of horrible to me, especially these days, the timing is not good at all, I am so very busy working and involved here trying to manage the blog and solving problems. Well… this logo design matter is one of the problems, and it’s also a big one.. maybe it’s still small now, but it will grow one day while our blog is growing, and then bad things could happen, and maybe we will never be able to solve it!

Want to Hear How we are Making the Success?

I bet you are curious to know how we managed to increase visits to this blog from 0 to 500 and then to 1000 visits per day in 7 months, I bet you want to hear how we managed to receive all these comments and feedback from our blog visitors and readers, and what we did to receive a good number of guest posts that are published daily on FamousBloggers, I am so sorry, I can not share this with you now, this is not the topic of today! I actually like to share my mistakes more than anything, I believe it’s more important for you at the mean time to hear how we fail on doing something, and how we can turn this to another success!

Solving problems to Transform Fail into a big Success

I actually like to talk about my mistakes more than success, I am not even shy to tell you that I was a “Pendejo” when I used that icon, I was not on my mode for sure 😉

It’s the Best Time for a Unique Logo Design

We have published a few logo design reviews and articles in the last a few months, and I was holding the idea inside of me all the time, almost everyday I was thinking about getting a unique logo design for our blog, time was gaming with me, and FamousBloggers became more popular and visible, I have received a lot of comments and feedback from friends, people I know them and visitors who I never know who they are, all were telling me that they love the blog design and especially the log and the mouse over effect, and this makes me feel excited to develop this blog more and invest my time and effort on it because people like it! I know this because I receive awesome feedback all the time.

Now, it’s the very right moment for FamousBloggers to get it’s own real unique logo design

How I Reacted and Responded to Feedback?

I contacted Adel, an Egyptian pro graphic designer that probably will join our team soon, I told Adel the story and he responded to me so quickly, he designed our new logo in a few hours and he did a great work y giving it the soul of FamousBloggers exactly the way I explained to him, Adel emailed me the design, I made the changes and uploaded the files, now… you can see the new shiny stars logo!

Another Great Feedback about Categories links and Navigation

While I was contacting with Clifton Hatfield and talking together by email about his recent guest post on our blog about the 5 Out-of-Date SEO Strategies, Clifton gave me a nice feedback about the categories links that was in the footer area, he told me that when he was trying to find a list of categories he didn’t look into the footer, Clifton asked me to add a link to categories on the header or sidebar. I want to tell you that this also was in mind mind since long time back, I usually work on updating the site when ever I have a chance, so … this problem is solved and we have added a nice navigation menu to make our blog more user friendly, we also have removed the categories links from the footer because it was giving errors when validating our HTML code, and more work will be done in the future to enhance our use experience and satisfy all our blog readers, bloggers and visitors.

A Word I Must Say

Sorry Compiz community, I really didn’t know that I am doing a mistake, thank you so very much Johan for leading me to this mistake before it goes wild, big thank to you Martin for your great support and fast respond which helped me to solve the problem, thank you Adel for designing our new awesome logo that I personally like some much, thank you Clifton for encouraging us to make our site more user friendly, thank you our great blogging community for your valuable feedback that I am receiving almost everyday!

And Thank YOU to anyone who post an honest feedback and opinion about our new logo design, I really appreciate that.

About

I create websites with WordPress, and I develop Schema Plugins to help SEOs. I am a social network lover. I am also the night creature who works hard to keep this project up. Owner and founder of the Famous Blog.

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  1. Agent Deepak says:
    Its all about honesty and playing good with people. Thanks for sharing your experience. People will learn lessons from it. By the way like your new Logo.
  2. Gail says:
    You did the right thing, Hesham. When we make a mistake - and we ALL make mistakes - apologize and correct the problem. You've done that well and the Compiz community will forgive you if they're at all reasonable folk. Congratulations on the new logo. It does make a huge difference to have a graphic that is appealing. I wish it were shareable at StumbleUpon and FriendFeed but I'm not sure one like yours can be shared. (They have to be regular images under a specific size.) .-= NEW from Gail @ Support Bloggers´s last blog ..Father’s Day Word of Mouth Gift Card Giveaway =-.
  3. Huey says:
    A unique logo is a must for any blog you intend to maintain long term. It's best to create an identity for your blog so that the written name becomes irrelevant and the logo and colours themselves become what people recognize you by. You never wan to use stock images or things that were not designed for your blog alone. I love your current logo and the mouse over effect :) and the little background behind your comments is a nice touch. .-= NEW from Huey´s last blog ..Boondocks Season 3 Episode 3 =-.
  4. Julius Kuhn-Regnier says:
    I really like the new logo. I don't even remember the old one ;) I also liked the post. Keep it up Hesham ;) I am soon going to send you a new post :P
  5. chandan says:
    Thats the reason why I see a new logo on your blog. Well on the blogsphere we might be make some mistake, but I like the way that you say sorry to the Compiz community. Well your new logo is also looking very nice. .-= NEW from chandan@work at home blog´s last blog ..Basic blogging tips for new blogger =-.
  6. Dana says:
    I must say it is the grace sorry words Hesham. I am glad you learn from this mistake and turn it into more value for this blog. It is simple logo but great.
  7. Latief says:
    Yes, its came in the bad time bro! But like always I'm sure you can find a way to solve it :) The new logo is better and I its give me another dimension about this blog. Simple and eye catching but I'll put a color gold for the logo so it'll look more exclusive, just a thought Hesham :) Good Job Bro! .-= NEW from Latief@AnotherBlogger´s last blog ..How To Targetting Local Search? =-.
  8. Murlu says:
    I really like the new logo, it somehow gives me the impression that famous bloggers is about being good "all round" at the topics discussed here. Congrats! .-= NEW from Murlu´s last blog ..How To Use Twitter To Find New Blog Post Ideas =-.
  9. Costa says:
    Yes, I think the new logo looks awesome. It easily etches into people's mind and thus easily remembered and relate the logo to Famous Blogger. Can't wait for your success stories concerning this blog. Getting 1000 uniques a day with a 7 month old blog is something all bloggers should learn. .-= NEW from Costa´s last blog ..PR3 Site For Sale =-.
  10. Dennis Edell says:
    Congrats on it all my friend; to another 7 months! ;) .-= NEW from Dennis Edell @ Direct Sales Marketing´s last blog ..Aweber Affiliate Link Contest! – This Is It!! =-.
  11. Gera says:
    I like a lot your new sweet logo, looks nice at the screen :) My pseudo logo of chocolated-strawberries took me a day to do and I've avoided using any type of icon available on the internet. The themes of licenses aren’t very clear sometimes, but the lesson is to skip over and move on! The best of the luck for you! Cheers, Gera .-= NEW from Gera @ SweetsFoodsBlog´s last blog ..Foodies, Social Media Tips, Blogging, Health & Eating: Best of the Week =-.
  12. Nile says:
    Logo looks fantastic. I will be putting my categories at the top probably this evening on blondish.net, but not the same as you have... that area with my description is getting a revamp and some of my dynamic pages. You might want to bring up the top of your page container for your content and such about 25 pixels... the space between what you have is a lot. By the way... I will be posting some Thesis design tutorials at WPAddict.net since I have had quite a few Thesis clients lately. I am looking for a few Thesis gurus that might like to contribute some Tutorial skins for certain looks so we can beat out the Thesis Showcase (which should have FamousBloggers.net listed there...in my opinion) .-= NEW from Nile´s last blog ..Blogxygen – Breathe Life into Your Blogs – Get Organized! =-.
  13. Mia says:
    Your new logo looks much nicer than the previous one Hesham . The thing with logos is & design is : its best to create your very own and not use pre-existing icons or any other pre-designed elements & to keep it simple . You have managed to do just that in both instances , however - i prefer the second one more :) The navigation is also clearly defined and well set up - overall : Youre doing fine Hesham :D Keep it Up ! M. .-= NEW from Mia´s last blog ..Review : The Webs Best New Up & Coming Web Designers =-.
    • Hesham says:
      Hey Mia, it's god to hear that especially if I know that you are one good web designer :) and yes you are right about the pre-designed icons we shouldn't use them when we do a logo design! it's always good.. it's makes me feel better that we have our own logo now :) Thank you Mia
  14. Mars Dorian says:
    Damn, Hesham, congrats to your success I thought this blog was at least a year old the logo is sooo freaking elegant - the flow is much better and vibrant than the old . good choice good choice .-= NEW from Mars Dorian´s last blog ..A Weird Marketing Method that works =-.
    • Hesham says:
      Yeap! this babe is 7 month old now ;) but thanks to social media I meet awesome people everyday, they give a great push to us all the time So glad to hear that you like the new logo, thanks Mars for your feedback, I really appreciate it!
  15. Suresh Khanal says:
    Its good that you come to know it earlier. Easier to shape better before it becomes a man! Loved the new logo, its sweet and mighty. It is an indication so clear that Famous Blogger has grown to show its own identity. Best of luck! .-= NEW from Suresh Khanal´s last blog ..5 Reasons to show excerpt in front page =-.
    • Hesham says:
      Earlier is always better, that's true Suresh :) I have been looking into the history of this blog, this is almost the fifth time on the redesign process, each step is taking us to a better level. Thanks a lot for your time
  16. DiTesco says:
    I like the logo and again what you are doing here is high commendable. I a sure Compiz will understand all this mishaps and move forward. Pity to know that no one on their community bothered to answer your question, go figure. Anyway, more power to you, famousbloggers team and everyone else who decided to join this awesome community. .-= NEW from DiTesco´s last blog ..New Google AdSense For Search Ads =-.
    • Hesham says:
      Thank you DiTesco, maybe people in the Compiz are busy ;) the good thing is we are safe 100% now, let's Rock ;)
  17. Dev says:
    Hey Hesham, Woww. the new ..logo is looking awesome ..dude. and i think if you can play with "hover" (css sprits) in header navigation then, it will going to look stunning. Btw.. Thanks for sharing your ...mistakes. :D .-= NEW from Dev | Technshare´s last blog ..Why you need to take action: In order to make money online =-.
    • Hesham says:
      Hey Dev, thank you for your feedback, and yes ... I think development of this blog will never end, there is a lot to do , I love to share my mistakes lol
  18. element321 says:
    Love the new logo designs and the the Category links look good and are easy to navigate. Congrats on your success. .-= NEW from element321 @ evolutionary designs´s last blog ..How To Use Google Web Fonts on WordPress and Other Sites =-.
    • Hesham says:
      Glad you like the new logo design James, there is still a lot of work to finish with this matter, but I will do it latter on time ;)