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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

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Make 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.

A few existing themes follow the parallax scrolling trend: http://themeforest.net/search?term=parallax

Re: I’m Tired Of Companies Ripping off our site, So I’m Calling Them Out

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Oh calm down. You had a good idea and started a trend. Don't whine about copiers - you're the source of great ideas, so come up with another one. That, or be the best at implementing this idea.

I think they actually copy-pasted code straight out of ideaware's source... Hence > line 173:

Re: I’m Tired Of Companies Ripping off our site, So I’m Calling Them Out

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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.

It's definitely IP theft, down to the minute details like the red underline on links. The way the images uncover the footer on the bottom is really unique too.

Took me a second cup of coffee to detect the sarcasm. I like you.

Re: I’m Tired Of Companies Ripping off our site, So I’m Calling Them Out

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Oh calm down. You had a good idea and started a trend. Don't whine about copiers - you're the source of great ideas, so come up with another one. That, or be the best at implementing this idea.

Of course people are going to come on here and say this crap without ever looking at the source code for the websites. They didn't just steal the idea, which is fair game, they stole the code.

Re: I’m Tired Of Companies Ripping off our site, So I’m Calling Them Out

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's definitely IP theft, down to the minute details like the red underline on links. The way the images uncover the footer on the bottom is really unique too.

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.
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