Many hosts have at the end of their website logos of RedHat Linux, Windows, Apache, PHP MY SQL, CPANEL, ENSIM and what not.

Does that really have any effect on clients or visitors? Having all those logos on the end of the website pages and then mentioning them...

Pls share your opinions. Thanks

Personally, seeing these logos helps assure me that they have these features. I like being able to scroll down and look and say to myself "oh, they have cpanel" or "they use php 4.1" for example.

Well for one they show customers what you support. But i think they can sometimes help with the ranking on search engines etc if you link to the actual sites and not just stick the logos on there.

Its also an easy way for customers to get more information on that feature if they can link to the main website about them.

Actually, it is probably a better idea to display the logos without actually linking to the sites, as that will probably just leak the pagerank of the main page.
In the absence of other logos and images, I think they can add a bit of a professional look to a site.

So its not bad afterall, right? Doesnt reduce your professionalism, right?

thanks

Originally posted by hostjet
Actually, it is probably a better idea to display the logos without actually linking to the sites, as that will probably just leak the pagerank of the main page.
In the absence of other logos and images, I think they can add a bit of a professional look to a site.


I'm sure ive read on the PHP site and others though that you cannot display their logo without linking back to their site.

Not that people pay much attention to things like that.

quote 'I'm sure ive read on the PHP site and others though that you cannot display their logo without linking back to their site.'

Ive come across that as well. Its necessary to link to them

Just a question, where can you find all these logos for use on a site? i.e the Cpanel, Apache, Mysql etc?

www.cpanel.net
www.apache.org
www.mysql.com

;)

Kevin

Kevin just told you, but if you still want letme know your email ill send you cc images, pay pal and lots more that ive been collecting :)

Yes, it's useful to have them there. It saves on questions being asked, and also gives the potential customer an idea of what services their site employs on their servers.

Regards,
Waylon

Another place to get the images is Google Image Search. Just ensure you are permitted to download the image before you do so.

As well most developers have stock graphics available for people to use on their websites.

As a business: I think it does help make the association of the product. The problem is that some customers may think that you have some sort of affiliation or partnership with them when really all you do is use their product.

As a user: I like to see the logos of products that I am interested in. It definitely helps catch my eye when i only look at a page for 8 seconds before moving on.

I read a while back that RedHat is rather a stickler about using their image on a site.

I dunt know about that, but its in RedHat's benefit only, more people get to know them :D

From RedHat's site:

Trademarks
The trademarks, logos and service marks ("Marks") displayed on this website are the property of Red Hat or other third parties. You are not permitted to use these Marks without the prior written consent of Red Hat or such third party which may own the Mark. Please see the Red Hat Trademark Guidelines and Policies at http://www.redhat.com/about/corporate/trademark/ and the Fedora Trademark Guidelines and Policies at http://fedora.redhat.com/about/trademarks/.

Also for using Windows icons you have to have an MCSE on staff (or something like that).

Ohk thanks alot DoMeric, appreciate it.

Depends on your market... I could throw any logo on my site, and my target market would have NO idea what they are or their purpose. If your targeting people "in the know" it's not a bad thing.

Originally posted by Yaser
Many hosts have at the end of their website logos of RedHat Linux, Windows, Apache, PHP MY SQL, CPANEL, ENSIM and what not.

Does that really have any effect on clients or visitors? Having all those logos on the end of the website pages and then mentioning them...

Pls share your opinions. Thanks

It allows the clients to know what software you are using.

So, yes, I agree it does attract more people to say "wow, they have all these features"

but over 10 is to many

Which ones are able to link onto your website without legal troubles? I was planning on doing this but I saw all those copyrights on each websites...

I think perl, cgi, apache. the rest you will need to double check

Originally posted by Yaser
Kevin just told you, but if you still want letme know your email ill send you cc images, pay pal and lots more that ive been collecting :)

Just so you know you CANNOT use the visa/mc/amex/discover logos on your page unless you have a merchant account. If you are using Paypal, 2Checkout, Paysystems, etc you CAN use the logos that they provide that display their logo along with the card logos, but you cannot simply use the standalone card logos.

Originally posted by joako
Just so you know you CANNOT use the visa/mc/amex/discover logos on your page unless you have a merchant account.

Says who?

http://corporate.visa.com/mc/imagedownloads/main.shtml