Good Designers Copy, Great Designers Steal - GoFuckYourself.com - Adult Webmaster Forum

X

candyflip

Carpe Visio

Join Date: Jul 2002

Posts: 43069
Share

Post
#1

Good Designers Copy, Great Designers Steal

06-23-2003, 07:47 AM

Great article over at SitePoint.com. Would love to hear what anyone here who takes the time to read it thinks.

Pablo Picasso, the first living artist to be featured in the Louvre, influenced the artistic world in a uniquely original way. So why is he known for saying ?Good artists copy, great artists steal??

Good Designers Copy, Great Designers Steal

Spend you some brain.
Email Me
Tags: None
StripperBiz

Registered User

Join Date: Jun 2003

Posts: 58
Share

Post
#2

06-23-2003, 08:00 AM

THEY DON'T EVEN NEED A COCK SOME ELECTRIFIED DILDO OR STRAP ON WILL DO
Comment
Hammer

Confirmed User

Join Date: Apr 2003

Posts: 961
Share

Post
#3

06-23-2003, 08:22 AM

Good article. All designers get their inspiration from other designs. I doubt if anything truly original has been done in quite a long time. Unfortunately I think too many designers take the word 'copy' too literally and actually copy someone else's design and then change the text a little.

Porn Site Pros - Custom Website Design, Turnkey Webcam and Pay Sites, SEO, and Consulting
Comment
KRL

Entrepreneur

Join Date: Oct 2002

Posts: 31429
Share

Post
#4

06-23-2003, 08:23 AM

The downside to being creative is that the uncreative eat off your plate.

If you would like to develop your domains, you can lease inexpensive foreign labor
from the leaders in the field at iWebmasters.com TO LOWER YOUR COSTS AND INCREASE YOUR PRODUCTION!
*** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
Domains Adult News KRL's Newsletter Biz Tips Just Listed Domains
Comment
Matt 26z

So Fucking Banned

Join Date: Apr 2002

Posts: 18481
Share

Post
#5

06-23-2003, 08:49 AM

Very few webmasters sit down and try to create something 100% original. Even the current standard paysite designs are all re-works of one another.

The biggest obsticle of attempting something original is that you can't just sit down and start working from start to finish. Nobody is going to think up brand new ideas at that rate. You spend more time away from the computer just thinking than you do actually working on it.

It can take months to complete a unique site that is actually good because of the thought process and trial and error that must go into it. Anyone cranking out sites quickly is making sites that either a) suck, or b) have a very similar overall design to another site.
Comment
Matt 26z

So Fucking Banned

Join Date: Apr 2002

Posts: 18481
Share

Post
#6

06-23-2003, 09:07 AM

Originally posted by The Hammer
I doubt if anything truly original has been done in quite a long time.

It's out there. The owners just have enough sense to keep it off the boards, and away from other webmasters in general.
Comment
Hammer

Confirmed User

Join Date: Apr 2003

Posts: 961
Share

Post
#7

06-23-2003, 10:01 AM

Originally posted by Matt 26z

It's out there. The owners just have enough sense to keep it off the boards, and away from other webmasters in general.

Huh? If it's on the Internet webmasters will find it.

But I still stand by my original statement and when I said quite a while I meant years and years. When you see something and say to yourself "now there's something original" I'd be willing to bet you that in every case it isn't truly original.

For example: Was 'Girls Gone Wild' an original idea? Of course not. He just video taped stuff that people have been doing for years at Mardi Gras and spring breaks. Flashing tits and doing crazy shit. The only person you could credit with having the original idea would be the first woman in history that ever flashed her tits at someone. Probably happened thousands of years ago too.

Porn Site Pros - Custom Website Design, Turnkey Webcam and Pay Sites, SEO, and Consulting
Comment
Reak

So Fucking Banned

Join Date: Mar 2003

Posts: 17920
Share

Post
#8

06-23-2003, 10:05 AM

Originally posted by The Hammer
Good article. All designers get their inspiration from other designs. I doubt if anything truly original has been done in quite a long time. Unfortunately I think too many designers take the word 'copy' too literally and actually copy someone else's design and then change the text a little.

your rigth
Comment
AdultNex

Confirmed User

Join Date: Feb 2003

Posts: 8985
Share

Post
#9

06-23-2003, 11:21 AM

I don't take "stealing" as a word of itself. It's more of "inspiration"-- That great designers take to produce a website.

Stealing is more of the sites like on: pirated-sites.com
Comment
infectd

Confirmed User

Join Date: Dec 2002

Posts: 1122
Share

Post
#10

06-26-2003, 11:37 PM

Just want to say thanx for teh great resources
Comment
<IMX>

Confirmed User

Join Date: Jun 2002

Posts: 2728
Share

Post
#11

06-27-2003, 01:37 AM

Originally posted by candyflip
Great article over at SitePoint.com. Would love to hear what anyone here who takes the time to read it thinks.

Pablo Picasso, the first living artist to be featured in the Louvre, influenced the artistic world in a uniquely original way. So why is he known for saying Good artists copy, great artists steal?

Good Designers Copy, Great Designers Steal

LOL they stole that quote from a poet, I've forgotten the guys name.

$$$ Check out NICHE PAY the leader of Micro Niche Sites! They offer $1 Trials! $$$
$$$ Check out 10 FREE TRIAL SALES equals 1 FREE LAP TOP ! $$$
Comment
jellohead

Confirmed User

Join Date: Apr 2003

Posts: 154
Share

Post
#12

06-27-2003, 03:29 AM

What about the first huge cock site? I am pretty sure it was MassiveCocks.Com. Was that considered an original idea?

<a href="http://www.atomicblastdesign.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.atomicblastdesign.com/images/abd120x60-2.gif" width="120" height="60" border="0"></a> ICQ# 257286807
Comment
Ironhorse

Pixel Pusher

Join Date: Nov 2002

Posts: 7094
Share

Post
#13

06-27-2003, 03:38 AM

I think the article didn't cover blatantly copying and pasting code or cloned design. They admitted to borrowing concepts from other sites but the end result looks quite different from the original.

Obviously by using the 3 button special : Members, Instant Access and Free Preview you already are copying someone else's work. For that matter so is using the alphabet.

Anyway I think a possible explanation for what Picasso might have meant is that a good artist can copy another's work but it takes a great artist to copy another's work and improve it in such a way or give it life beyond the original and thus 'stealing' the artwork. Does this make any sense?

Last edited by Ironhorse; 06-27-2003, 03:42 AM.

[email protected]
Comment
Seb From Holland

Confirmed User

Join Date: May 2002

Posts: 2747
Share

Post
#14

06-27-2003, 04:16 AM

Originally posted by StripperBiz
THEY DON'T EVEN NEED A COCK SOME ELECTRIFIED DILDO OR STRAP ON WILL DO

*bows to your intelligence*
Comment
NickPapageorgio

Confirmed User

Join Date: Apr 2004

Posts: 8323
Share

Post
#15

09-05-2004, 12:02 PM

Kind of an odd topic...in retrospect and all.
Comment
cherrylula

lol

Join Date: Jan 2002

Posts: 15969
Share

Post
#16

09-05-2004, 12:04 PM

and yet liars and thieves think they can make up their own rules...

Way to go candyrip!
Comment
PiksalDesign

Confirmed User

Join Date: Mar 2003

Posts: 1632
Share

Post
#17

09-05-2004, 12:08 PM

that doesnt mean fully copying a page and change the name and text makes you a great artist.

omg i hope someone beats the living shit outta you
fuckin theif.

469344657
Comment
Grammar Police

So Fucking Banned

Join Date: Feb 2004

Posts: 727
Share

Post
#18

09-05-2004, 03:46 PM
Comment

Previous template Next

Working...