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From an aesthetic point of view, I sort of understand ripping off a talented designer like Dan. People like him produce lovely work, and wanting that for yourself can be a serious temptation. It's still wrong and I don't condone it for an instant, but I kind of get the motivation.
But why anyone would do a complete site theft of a half-assed design like mine-- changing only the copyright notice and some telephone prefixes and then commenting out just enough stuff on the home page to break the layout-- utterly mystifies me.
Original: www.autodemontageverwijst.nl
Copyright: Expanism Webdesign, www.expanism.nl
Ripped by: (link has been removed because the rip-off has been removed from their website :)
Look familiar? Discovered because they used our analytics script intact and showed up in our logs. They even named their file "onwired.css." Classy, no?
Here's the offender: green.net.pl
Original: www.autodemontageverwijst.nl
Copyright: Expanism Webdesign, www.expanism.nl
Ripped by: www.nikean.com
Original: www.autodemontageverwijst.nl
Copyright: Expanism Webdesign, www.expanism.nl
Ripped by: (link has been removed because the rip-off has been removed from their website :)
Above: our about page
Below: daynger.com's about page
That's some marvelous body copy! (In both senses of the word.) Whoever did Mr Mayfield hire to write his about page? Give that man a raise.
Honestly, I always thought these talentless, unethical pirates were a little cleverer, but it turns out: not so much.
"But!" you may interject, "He added an underline to the headline, swapped 'OnWired' for 'Daynger' and changed the list from a bold, rich orange to a pale, vomit-looking color completely unrelated to the palette! Surely that constitutes a totally new creative work, derived independently from the original, no?"
To which I reply: "Touche."
Accurate Tennis Courts completely copied the site Fast-Dry.com for the design and the complete code.
If I had stumbled across this site today, I would thought hey, they're clearly taking heavy inspiration from Bright Creative, a little too much even, but I'll let it go.
That is, if this weren't the same site that was a direct copy right before this 'redesign' launched. The same site who I emailed two months ago to point out I had noticed the ripoff. The same site that held me at bay over the past two months while they 'worked on a redesign' so their client 'wouldn't lose money in the mean time'.
The shop responsible, Web + Grafik was also caught lifting their own portfolio site from Deluge Studios in Memphis, and appears to have taken it down after I mentioned it to them.
Hey Mike Whitney of Web + Grafik: if you do stuff like this on the internet, people find out.
If you don't know why this is here, you won't care anyway, but this should give you a clue: alistapart.com .
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It is always nice when someone totally steals your site design. Going through my Mint statistics today I came across something called Ideate Plus - I almost fell off my chair. I am in the process of sending a cease and desist order to Melissa Armstrong... she does not even bother to change my text!
While it's not strictly a "rip" (e.g. he's changed images, colors and typography) the layout, sidebar links, footer, etc. are a bit more than inspired by SuperfluousBanter.org.
See this screenshot for comparison.
Good grief. Based on the stylesheet IDs, I'd say this was ripped off about one year ago. Ugh.
Oh, AND THAT'S MY LOGO, GIRL. You can just send restitution via PayPal. Thanks.
Ripper: hanyi329.go1.icpcn.com/
Ripped off: flickr.com/photos/jaredigital/238134450/in/set-7215759427...
This girl had "Web Designer" listed has her occupation on her profile LOL.
Thanks 2 Janie for pointing this one out
Hasn't this happened before?
flickr.com/photos/avalonstar/501723094/
Apparently history can repeat itself, even if the site that was ripped doesn't exist anymore. The designer who ripped me the first time is now scamming other owners by using a rip of the 3rd verison of Nyxsis, again.
This time I'm going to find out who he is.
This company not only thought it great to leech of my 'zenful' brand name, but to take my content too! This was taken from www.zenfulcreations.com/resources/worksheets/questionnair... and is NOT creative commons!
Note the pink background on the active tab, the basic similarity in the navigation, the thin borders, the centered "category", and the exact same horizontal proportions.
Note the pink background on the active tab, the basic similarity in the navigation, the thin borders, the centered "category", and the exact same horizontal proportions. (original page)
Here is the source code that has been stolen and semi-altered for use on IdeatePlus - she has commented out some of my text while stealing the rest.
Another day, another rip.
I like that these people are taking different colour schemes, at least.
April 2010: Still up, 2 years later.
Note the pink background on the active tab, the basic similarity in the navigation, the thin borders, the centered "category", and the exact same horizontal proportions.
I just discovered this site that completely stole Biola Undergrad's site, from style to entire code base. And the US News and World Report button too! The site design is credited to a company in the footer.
Original: biola.edu/undergrad/
Ripoff: www.kruidjes.be/index.php
She took my text from my Logo Design page, and republished as her own. Also under her Other Graphic Design, she copied and semi-adapted from my Template Design description on my services page.
That image had 3 arrows yesterday, but they're not fooling anyone. The original Multiple Site Manager.
IdeatePlus's Melissa Armstrong stole my most popular resources... planning forms and web design contract.
According to Mr Mayfield, this new "design" no longer bears resemblance to OnWired, the source code is not "remotely similar", and the template was built "from the ground up." By golly, he's right! It no longer appears anything like ours!
Must we continue this charade? Does it not strike him as humiliatingly ironic that he's trying so hard to bend someone else's creative work just enough to avoid litigation, when his intent is to advertise creative design services?
Here's a grand idea: scrap it and start over.