The logo was a contracted job that I had worked on for about 2 months, hired a number of designers from different companies and nobody came up with what I wanted. I ended up going on freelancer, put a bid in for between $300-$700 and had a few people respond and I hired two people out of that batch. This was the version that was decided on after a couple of rounds.

As for the website look and feel, this was actually part of a template that I had purchased and then tweaked out in various places. While the template was static HTML, I don't like HTML and love the "php include" line - so I modified all the code to fit what I needed, added some jquery and as they say "Bob's your uncle!"

It's a long time in the works, and with the CDN it's just the icing on the cake to get a 300k page loaded in less than 2 seconds from pretty much anywhere in the US and most of western Europe.