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I’m Tired Of Companies Ripping off our site, So I’m Calling Them Out
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Re: I’m Tired Of Companies Ripping off our site, So I’m Calling Them Out
#62Interesting, given the copying of the js directly, you could use that to your advantage. Have it behave one way if the page is served up from an IP address you own, and slightly differently served from a foreign address. Could be sublime, like adds a menu item/link to their pages that has "Web Design Services" that points back to you, to the silly "Get free copyrighted material here" and a link to some dubious conten…
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Re: I’m Tired Of Companies Ripping off our site, So I’m Calling Them Out
#63Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery? Pehaps you could reference these guys on your site as evidence of love for your design chops :) Incidently - did you check whether these are individul copies or multiple clones by one person/organisation? Anyway, if assets are being hotlinked you could have some fun...
Exactly. It's a really nice layout, but honestly -- should the essence here (full page photo, small menu at top right, logo at top left, Title/quote in middle with "more info" button) really be "protectable" IP? I just don't see it, sorry. That doesn't make those designers (or probably just one) honorable or talented or honest. But they have the right to clone layouts too.
Obviousness isn't always enough of an excuse to ignore copycats. And let's not forget, this was made obvious after the initial design was created.
Re: I’m Tired Of Companies Ripping off our site, So I’m Calling Them Out
#64Make a premium WordPress theme based on this design, slap a price on it, and distribute through WordPress theme sites thereby creating an additional income stream for your company. I'm in Miami and I'd be happy to help.
I might actually do this, we were just discussing this at the office!
I would buy this -- its quite nice -- and repurpose it to something other then web design / development
Re: I’m Tired Of Companies Ripping off our site, So I’m Calling Them Out
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
Took me a second cup of coffee to detect the sarcasm. I like you.
Sorry, I wasn't being sarcastic. The links on the top right aren't standard. The footer also has a funky styling. Check out the page to see. Just from reading my comment and not examining the styling I see how it could sound sarcastic.
I thought you were being sarcastic too; these are all very common trends. The problem here isn't the fact that the layout is original (it's not), it's that the code is being ripped straight from the site.
Re: I’m Tired Of Companies Ripping off our site, So I’m Calling Them Out
#66Initially i was of the "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" mindset. But after going through a few of the sites i couldn't stomach the blatant rip offs.
Especially by companies like http://smacontech.com/ which claim to be design firms. Worse still, they seem to regurgitate the design into some of their client's sites as well (http://www.smipropellers.com/)
Not sure how you can proceed here. But if you are intent on naming and shaming them publicly, try posting a message on their facebook fan page's wall. That should make them situp and take notice of your complaints.
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#67Interesting, given the copying of the js directly, you could use that to your advantage. Have it behave one way if the page is served up from an IP address you own, and slightly differently served from a foreign address. Could be sublime, like adds a menu item/link to their pages that has "Web Design Services" that points back to you, to the silly "Get free copyrighted material here" and a link to some dubious conten…
I completely agree to this method. Break their site with your js.
Assuming that the people who are copying this code are able to code themselves, wouldn't it be easy to find the problem and fix it?
Unless there was some incredible code obfuscation.
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#68Did anyone notice that most of them couldn't get the font correct. Coz the morons must have never heard of custom fonts. Only one site did managed a Google Web font, I guess.
Ha ha...and that propeller thingy has some reputed clients under its belt. I'm from India and I know the clients. You want me to call them up and have some harmless fun from your side. I can act as if I'm your legal agent. Kidding!
Re: I’m Tired Of Companies Ripping off our site, So I’m Calling Them Out
#69You should call them out on twitter, they are more likely to make amends if your shouting is visible to clients (future/current).
* https://twitter.com/SmaconTech * https://twitter.com/dapatical * https://twitter.com/saraswathimetal
Or maybe it won't make any difference, looking at the stats on these accounts
Re: I’m Tired Of Companies Ripping off our site, So I’m Calling Them Out
#70I think there might be a commonality here – a number of them seem to be located in Australia (with one in India and one in the UK) – a whois check shows a few AU contacts and an AU-based whois privacy guard, so I can't be sure, but the do seem to be oddly clustered, IMHO.
My bet would be that some third-party web firm/designer has sold all of these companies a "unique design" and more than likely most of them are unaware of the origin of the design, much less the other sites with the very same design.