Originally Posted by Webinc Peter

When I found the link to this thread in my mail, I got pretty amazed that someone with such a "basic" site could say we copied (or got inspired) when designing Mom's a Slut site. I never post on the boards, but in this case I've decided to post my 2 cents here...

First of all, these two sites have far from each-other. In overall quality, in types used and in complexity too.

PublicNudityExposed site has far from quality that would be acceptable by webinc.com. If a designer which such skills would apply for a job here at webinc, I would never let him work with us - simply because we're always trying to bring top quality to our clients.

The public nudity design uses default Photoshop presets, which is yet another thing we DON'T ACCEPT. Designer who's dependent on the default gradients and bewels has a lot to learn... outside webinc.com.

Also, it seems the designer who was doing public nudity site was in a rush, since he forgot to place outlines on the 'Nudity' in logo while he used an outline on the 'Public' word (not even considering the poorly incorporated photos) - all this seems pretty incomplete to me...

On the other hand, we spent quite a lot of time with the logo, which suggests a question: would someone who played with every detail and spent a whole day designing the site's main style and layout would try to steal from someone who spent maximum 1 and 1/2 hour on a poorly designed logo and header?

We have very strict rules here in our company, one of the main is to never copy anything from anyone outside webinc.com. One of our main advantage is that with over 1,000 sites we have designed up to date, even our newcomer webinc designers have incredibly big field for inspiration from our internal sources rather than from some of these cheap immitations.