Making gallery submissions easy for designers

Gopal Raju — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:56:44 +0000

Submitting designs to galleries has always been a hectic task for designers. Do you agree with me? This post is to give you an overview on the procedure I follow to make this easy. If you have better ideas please do contribute via the comment form below.

Requirements
1. Firefox Sorry IE users!
2. InFormEnter AddOn for firefox
3. Details about your logo/website (will explain this below)
4. Image of your logo in various dimensions (will explain this as well)

I assume that you’ve already read my post – 22 Sites & Galleries to submit your logos. In this post I’ll walk you through my logo design submission process, which can be made use for CSS gallery submissions as well.

Step 1: Bookmarking the gallery forms

The first step is to bookmark all the submission forms of famous galleries. I know it’s not that easy, but trust me it will make things easy. Open a blank firefox window and then open all the logo gallery submission forms mentioned here in separate tabs. Once you’ve opened all, go to Bookmarks Menu > Bookmark All Tabs (or Shift + Cmd/Ctrl + D)

This would open a pop-up, wherein you can add a name for the bookmark folder. Choose ‘Bookmarks Toolbar’ from the dropdown and click the “Add Bookmarks button”.

Awesome! You’ve created a ‘Bookmark folder’ for your logo submission which you can now access from your Bookmarks toolbar.

Whenever you come across a new submission form you can add them to this folder.

Step 2: Prepare a list of all possible form fields

The next task is to make a list of all possible submission form fields. I’ve created one for logo design submission. If you’re the creator of the logo, the first 8 items remain same for all your logo submissions. We’ll see how to make use of this list in the next step.
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First Name
Last Name
Full Name
Email Id
Twitter Id
Designer Website Title
Designer Website URL
Designer Bio

Title/Name of the logo
Logo Punchline/tagline
Logo URL (if your logo is already online)
Description of logo
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Step 3: Using InFormEnter to fill the forms

I hope you’ve already installed this addon. If not do it right now, it’s really worth! Now you should see a blue arrow icon on the bottom right of your Firefox status bar. Click the icon and select “InFormEnter Options”.

So you have the pop-up ready to enter the list of form fields mentioned above. See the image below to know how I created the list for the “Beetle Nut” logo

Step 4: Prepare your images for submission

This is critical since the image dimensions accepted by each gallery varies. Here goes a list of sizes accepted by most logo galleries.
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284×130
300×180
320×260
325×260
394×197
400×400
500×247
500×300
550×338
620×340
640×360
880×440
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I usually create a folder for each logo, re-size the logos and name them based on these dimensions. But make sure the file size is low. See the images below.

This makes the form submission process easy!

Step 5: Start Submitting… Enjoy!

Once InFormEnter is activated you would notice a blue icon near each form field. Now all you need to do is click the icon and select the entry! As simple as that!

Do you already follow a better procedure? If so please share it here.

22 Sites & Galleries to submit your logos

Gopal Raju — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 12:36:34 +0000

So you have done a few nice logos, what’s next? Go ahead, submit them on the best logo galleries.

I’ve compiled a list of websites that accept logo submissions, along with the link to their submission forms. The ranking and other details of each site has been included as well, for your ease.

PS: The ranking details are provided just to give you an idea on how popular each website is. The information may vary from day to day.

Only three in the list requires registration to submit your logos

Logo From Dreams
Alexa Rank: 147286
Page Rank: 5
Famous in Countries: China, India, USA and Spain

Graphic Design Blog
Alexa Rank: 36183
Page Rank: 5
Famous in Countries: Pakistan, USA, India and Germany

The Design Inspiration
Alexa Rank: 17800
Page Rank: 5
Famous in Countries: USA, China and India

Logo Moose
Alexa Rank: 61436
Page Rank: 4
Famous in Countries: Pakistan, India, Indonesia, USA and UK

Logo Faves
Alexa Rank: 58238
Page Rank: 4
Famous in Countries: USA, India and Germany

Logo Critiques If you are actively looking for critiques, submit your logo here.
Alexa Rank: 312761
Page Rank: 4
Famous in Countries: USA and India

Type Based Exclusively for typographic logos.
Alexa Rank: 1526872
Page Rank: 4

Logofi
Alexa Rank: 240770
Page Rank: 4
Famous in Countries: Pakistan, Germany, Turkey, USA and India

Logo Fury
Alexa Rank: 166771
Page Rank: 3
Famous in Countries: USA, India, UK, Italy and Australia

Logo Galleria
Alexa Rank: 403497
Page Rank: 3
Famous in Countries: India, Indonesia and USA

Logo Gallery
Alexa Rank: 594609
Page Rank: 3
Famous in Countries: India, Malaysia and Indonesia

Logo Gallery Design
Alexa Rank: 1929224
Page Rank: 3
Famous in Countries: India

Logo Gala
Alexa Rank: 222652
Page Rank: 3
Famous in Countries: India, USA, Israel, Pakistan and Croatia

Logo Talkz
Alexa Rank: 754413
Page Rank: 3
Famous in Countries: Romania, USA and India

Czech Logos
Alexa Rank: 4,669,960
Page Rank: 3

Logoed All you need to do is submit an email to the admin
Alexa Rank: 1049291
Page Rank: 2

The Logo Mix
Alexa Rank: 1325361
Page Rank: 1
Famous in Countries: Germany

Logo Nest
Alexa Rank: 840171
Page Rank: 0
Famous in Countries: Canada, India, USA and UK

Registration required for the following sites

Creaticca
Alexa Rank: 11958
Page Rank: 6
Famous in Countries: USA, India, Germany and Pakistan

Logospire
Alexa Rank: 125330
Page Rank: 5
Famous in Countries: Turkey, USA, Belgium, Germany and India

Logo Pond
Alexa Rank: 11244
Page Rank: 3
Famous in Countries: USA, China, Germany and India

Before submitting to these websites just make sure that your logo is perfect!

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