logo for website

[pork_scratch]

doing a logo for a website and dont want a white background - want it to be transparent - is it enough to save it as a gif in Illustrator??

[boobesque]

gif is fine as long as you set the background as transparant. it wont assume that you dont want the white.
.png is good for transparancy too. pictures are of a higher quality but equally of a higher file size

[fo3nix]

Nothing personal, but I question your ability to design logos if you're asking this sort of question...

And no, it's not enough to just save it as a gif. Save the logo as an ai file (i.e., a vector-based image format, not raster), and just design the logo with no background. Even though the background on screen is white, it should be transparent (it is by default anyway).

[pork_scratch]

i'm just starting out so give me a break fo3nix.
ps. thanks for your help

[fo3nix]

I wasn't trying to be too harsh.

You'll be better using a proper designer's forum though, with many more people that specialise in this sort of thing.

http://www.designerstalk.com/forums/
http://www.allgraphicdesign.com/phpBB2/index.p hp

(Those two just from a Google search.)