Comments on: If You’re Going To Steal Someone’s Design…

By: Travis

Travis — Sat, 23 May 2009 18:06:37 +0000

Please take credit for all sorts of things day why is anyone surprised that it is happening with websites and design of same?? I am of course not saying any time it is ok but it is just another place people with no morals can take credit for something they don’t do. Shame on you who and wherever you are!

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By: foodguruireland

foodguruireland — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 20:42:43 +0000

what do you think about our website? i got it designed by a group of guys. i hope they did not infringe any laws.. how do i find that out..
my site: http://www.foodguruireland.com

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 28 May 2007 07:32:35 +0000

Wonderful. Clearly explained.

By: TerryG

TerryG — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 05:53:00 +0000

I can only think how bad if my site was copied and all my hard effort was lost. Thanks for a great post.

By: Tom Doyle

Tom Doyle — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:26:08 +0000

It’s still there Alan!! Can you believe it?

By: Alan O'Rourke

Alan O'Rourke — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:24:19 +0000

I remember the apple people

By: Tom Doyle

Tom Doyle — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 19:51:46 +0000

I have a similar problem, there’s a crowd in Germany (www.comman.de) that copied everything from our old website. After pestering them they removed most of the links back to our website – but they still refuse to remove one line of code that we use for tracking visits to the website. It’s a piece of statcounter code, and no matter how many times I ask them to remove this, they are yet to do it for me!!

Anyway, we get it a lot, but then we had a client who wanted to look like the apple site – no matter what we gave them, it just wasn’t the apple site – they were only happy when we copied apple…..

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By: Richard Hearne

Richard Hearne — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 17:26:07 +0000

Wow

Now it’s the turn of StumbleUpon.

Almost 3,000 referrals from there today

As they say, all publicity is good publicity.

By: David Doran

David Doran — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 11:56:48 +0000

Wow, this article was viewed 4 times as much as your next highest viewed and practically all in one day.
Digg strikes again!

By: Les

Les — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:52:27 +0000

I followed the link to see what they did to the site now:
“to the designer of LP, sorry, the designer has been replaced once this was brought to my attention.”

So much funny with that statement, Gay porn = “brought to my attention”. “designer has been replaced”, they paid a guy to rip off another site’s style. Wonder if he would have still been canned if the site wasn’t defaced through his stupidity?

By: Hans van Hoffen

Hans van Hoffen — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 22:27:31 +0000

Hey Richard,

No problem at all. I am more then happy to provide you with the info :). And yes, you are the #1 referrer in the last 12 hours!

By: Richard Hearne

Richard Hearne — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 20:52:21 +0000

Hi Hans

That might be interesting. I might shoot you a mail tomorrow.

Alan already gave me a few tidbits to chew on but I’d be interested to see some deeper analysis.

I must be your #1 referrer for the last 12 hours

By: Hans van Hoffen

Hans van Hoffen — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 19:34:09 +0000

If you like I can also give you my stats so you can see how this story impacted lp.com traffic. Quite a blast I can tell ya

By: Gavin

Gavin — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 19:27:22 +0000

The site owner must have got some shock when he seen that.

By: Richard Hearne

Richard Hearne — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:25:05 +0000

Yep, I can see that. Another one removed from the spam bin

By: Alan O'Rourke

Alan O'Rourke — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 15:51:41 +0000

I checked their site and it said it can take up to 24 hours to be marked as not spam.

By: Richard Hearne

Richard Hearne — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 15:41:56 +0000

Not sure what’s up with you and damn smelly designers Alan, but I can tell you askimet really isn’t into you.

You might want to drop them an email asking if they will sort you out. They fix it in a second normally.

By: Dave Davis

Dave Davis — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 15:41:31 +0000

Damn straight! What do they know anyway? They all rip each others designs anyway.

By: Alan O'Rourke

Alan O'Rourke — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 15:36:03 +0000

Damn smelly designers. Never trust them!

By: Dave Davis

Dave Davis — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 15:24:34 +0000

Looking forward to it Richard.

On Topic: It’s always easiest to blame the designer.

By: Richard Hearne

Richard Hearne — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 14:47:17 +0000

@Alan you got flagged as spam by askimet. Pain in the rear, sorry. But de-spamming you should hopefully clear you up for future posts.

Will post when I have a chance to gather the data and process it.

@Paul – bet that felt good

By: Paul Clerkin

Paul Clerkin — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 14:36:24 +0000

I was once rang by a business owner who knew me as a friend asking had I ever hired John Doe to design Archiseek – he had got a resume in for a designer position which listed my website as one of his…. needless to say he didn’t get the job…

By: Alan O'Rourke

Alan O'Rourke — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 13:40:47 +0000

I would be interested in that analysis. My first time seeing Digg in action.

By: Richard Hearne

Richard Hearne — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 12:03:24 +0000

Hi Colm

Yeah it was changed soon after this hit Digg. It’s fascinating watching the coverage you get from Digg. I’m watching the stats fly in – more traffic to this post than my top 5 other posts combined.

Will be doing some analysis on this and posting later.

Rgds

Richard

By: Colm

Colm — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 11:57:46 +0000

Looks like the design has been changed on the money central site!

By: podigle

podigle — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 11:05:16 +0000

Me too. The funny thing was, the guy was passing himself off as a Web designer and advertising for clients etc. I could imagine what potential clients thought when they viewed his NEW site….

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 10:37:19 +0000

podigle says “It worked though, never had a problem from him again”

Haha brilliant. Would love to have seen his face when he found out.

I don’t understand the mentality of some web site owners. Do they think all content and IP is public domain?

By: podigle

podigle — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 10:28:12 +0000

I had a slightly different experience at one stage, where the guy was deriving all his content from my site. I contacted his host without success and emailed him about it, without result so in the end I just added a little redirect for his site that altered his content from that of my site to one pertaining to a site detailing anal prolapse.

About a week later I got an emai from the guy, being pissed with me for the redirect…. It worked though, never had a problem from him again.

By: Richard Hearne

Richard Hearne — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 01:28:55 +0000

Nah, Wasn’t me Michael.

Just found it and think it’s one of the best I’ve seen in a while

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 01:24:31 +0000

Freaking hilarious! Well done. I had someone take it a step further and rather than just steal the design, they took credit for designing AND building my site! Openly bragged about it end everything on IGN forums. I did confront the guy and he had a lame excuse. I wrote about it here: http://www.rustylime.com/show_article.php?id=253