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Originally posted by Kenny B!
Why can?t people come up with an original design or at least be a little less obvious when they completely rip off someone else?s wok? When we started out 5 years ago had a few copycat sites and it really irked me.....
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When Allie started her website our biggest concern with theft was that some zit faced 18y/o kid in Estonia would steal her content and/or the entire site and call it their own.
Call it naiveté if you like, but it has come as a huge surprise that the biggest threat of theft has come from other amateur girl sites. We?ve seen this time and time again! What seems even more surprising to me is that in most cases, such as this one, we?ve actually met the girl face-to-face at a webmaster event.
For anyone who say?s, ?what?s the big deal? or ?it?s just basic html? you?re sadly missing the point. If a designer were to spend the day combining, optimizing, manipulating, and slicing a series of images into a single graphic it would be considered theft if someone came along and took the graphic for use on their own site. Say they changed the border color of the graphic, it?s still theft plain and simple!
It?s no different when Allie spends the entire day adjusting cell spacing, cell padding, border sizes, cell alignment, font size, etc. in order to get the layout just as she wants it. Please don?t bother citing copyright laws or the DMCA because it would be fruitless to engage in a legal discussion on this topic here.
Whether or not it would be considered theft from a legal perspective is completely irrelevant anyway. The point here is that in both scenarios someone stole a full days work from someone else because they were too fucking lazy to do it themselves!
Kayla, you may want to at least change the tr bordercolor="6666cc" tag to something that fits your purple color scheme a little better. Allie used 6666cc because she thought that dark blue looked good against the light blue background of her table. In your case, I don?t think that the dark blue color looks so good against your purple background. That?s just my opinion though!