You may have noticed a few changes on the site lately.  I wanted to spruce things up a bit and have wanted a logo since the beginning.  It wasn’t until I came across a great post on another site that I found a very fair priced graphic designer.  To sum things up, I choose a package that included a logo, favicon and twitter background (all shown below).

The first change is a small one, but I think it’s one that’s important, a favicon.  A favicon is a small image that appears to the left of your URL and also in your favorites.  It’s more commonly known as an icon, but is technically called a favicon.  The one I have is a spin-off of my logo, but also the commonly known universal symbol for diabetes – the blue circle.

Next is the logo.  I really didn’t have anything special in mind and totally let the designer fire away.  I was very impressed when the draft came back as what you see below; Blogging diabetes with the word "diabetes" in orange to match the site theme and the "O" in "Blogging" the blue circle.  For those wondering, I first checked with the World Diabetes Organization to ensure my image wouldn’t violate any trademark or copyright stuff.  They obviously said it didn’t and I was clear to roll with it.

Finally, I recently transitioned (am still in the progress) most of my diabetes related followers on twitter under the @dsainsights id to my id that I setup way back for this site, which is @blogdiabetes.  To make things a bit more professional and clean, I had the designer create the following background.  It’s very clean and has the basic information for my site and to contact me.  One person tweeted that the oranges could represent healthy eating, so that’s what I’m going with.  I really don’t eat too many oranges mostly because they are higher in carbs, but nonetheless, the colors work.

I hope you like them and if you are interested in the designer just drop me a message and I’ll pass it along.

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