I find this type of scrolling annoying.
I’m Tired Of Companies Ripping off our site, So I’m Calling Them Out
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#173OP is going overboard with the accusations.
http://www.capta360.com
http://www.creativegerms.com/about
http://pearlwebstudio.com
^None of these people are "copying" him, at least visually. OP did not invent links with vertical scroll or the vertical parallax effect.
OP: Clearly some of the sites outright ripped off your design, but stop trash talking sites with designs you merely think are "similar" to yours.
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#174I 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 un…
I think this analysis is spot-on.
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#175SMI Propellers: "Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort..."
Man, isn't that the truth?
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#176Isn't your design inspired from http://www.spotify.com/se/ ?
I'd like to get some response from the author of this thread on this.
I mean yeah, some are just blatant copies, but your design is not THAT original.
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#177I'm getting a lot of email requests from people who want to license the design/theme.
Not sure, don't want to whore out the company by selling our site!
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#178I think that at the end of the day, when it comes to people copying your design, you really need to take the emotion out of it. I've had my design work copied before, so I know that there is an emotional response that comes along with having your work copied. But there also needs to be a practical assessment of what impact the copying will have on your business. If the site(s) copying you aren't big names and aren't competing with you, it's likely a waste of your time and energies to be pursuing them. That's time being taken away from your core business to focus on other people that ultimately have an inconsequential impact on your ability to be competitive and make money.
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#179I've seen a few posts on HN complaining about people copying their sites, but I'm not sure I sympathize.
Websites are HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, all of which is open text and easily copied. You shouldn't have any illusions that your design and code is copied and reused somewhere else.
In this case, the websites that are using the design aren't competitors and aren't taking away business from the original developer. What are they expecting to get out of it? An additional revenue stream of HTML templates?
I agree it's a problem if they are hot-linking to assets on someone else's server, but that's a problem in that it's consuming someone's bandwidth and server resources.
I say, call it flattery and be proud that you made a design that other people want to copy. If you're really paranoid (I don't see why), ask for attribution like "Site design by ..." at the bottom of the page.
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#180This reminds me of one of Douglas Crockford's talk. The story goes some thing like this.
* Some Russian Porn site uses jsonp using Crockford's host and he get a huge bill
* He polity asks them to host their own version and they don't reply
* He redirects the site to 'http://fbi.gov
* He receives a call from the FBI, because they have been getting suspicious traffic from some Russian site
* He then goes on to add a alert box with a annoying warning saying the site stole his bandwidth. Who cares for warnings any ways?
* He finally puts a loop in the JS file so that the other site wont load. He finally wins