Have a great break everyone!

many thanks to Mitch O’Connell for the Glitter Graphics!

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Here’s a nice concise list of the humble players in the B&B directory ecosphere.

These are the folks I’ll likely mention over the long life of this blog.

Some things’ll be complimentary, and some’ll be critical. But it’ll all be in good fun.

I highly respect each of these businesses, and hope to eventually meet their owners at some point in time..

so without further adieu:

BedAndBreakfast.com
Eric Goldreyer
Founder and President

BBOnline.com
Randy Fought
Founder & CEO

iLoveInns.com
Deborah Sakach
CEO

LanierBB.com
Pamela Lanier
Founder

BnBFinder.com
Mary White
Founder

BBExplorer.com
Scott Crumpton
Founder

PillowsAndPancakes.com
Paul Avery
Director

and, of course…
Planet BnB
Peter Askew
Founder

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I like logos. Website logos, specifically.

It’s amazing to see how that one small element can change a website design so dramatically (in a good way).

My impression, when I originally researched designing a logo for Planet BnB, were that, creating a logo involved hiring a web designer and dropping an armload of cash.

After some lengthly online research, I found this wasn’t the case. There were actually several websites online that rendered logos, for free. (Our original Planet BnB logo, in all it’s glory, was created online using one of these sites.)

The process was as simple as visiting a website, typing in my site’s name, choosing a typeface font design & color, and clicking ‘Render Logo’ button.

Here, let me give you an example..

Let’s say a guy named ‘Ho Hum’ owns a B&B. And he wants a logo, but nothing fancy. Here’s an example logo he could create online, for free:

it’s that easy.

Some sites offer more font faces than others. And some even throw in alt graphics into your logo, if that’s something you’re into.

For your reference, though, here are a few sites we played around with, originally, to create our ours - hopefully it’ll help you add a neat design element to your site, if you’re looking to snazz it up a bit:

• Cool Text Graphics Generator - where our original logo came from
• Cool Archive Logo Generator — note, site has a few pop-ups
• Web 2.0 Free Logo Generator — where the example above came from

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howdy! Thanks for stopping by..

I’m darn happy, today, to announce the launch of Planet BnB, the blog. As you may already know, my name is Peter Askew, and I serve as operator and webmaster of Planet BnB. I’ve been running the site since mid-2004, and as the years progressed, learned quite a bit about HTML, domain names, hosting, the paid search and seo industry, graphic design, online marketing, and so on.

Since this site is all about ‘giving back’, I thought it’d be only natural to start a blog.

A blog that’ll help inn owners better market their inns online, as well as save money in the process..

A blog that’ll highlight special and unique inns around the USA for inn goers…

A blog that’ll spotlight unique stories in (and around) our industry..

thanks for visiting and stay tuned!

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