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How to properly plagiarize a website

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Re: How to properly plagiarize a website

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Post by duncans »

Well I'm sorry Infinum, at least their site does something when I click the tabs across the top.

OK, looks like you're doing some sort of pjaxing of the content; problem being there is none of the usual browser feedback that suggests I should wait, seeing as your site is probably under more load that normal.

Suggestion: if you're going to use pjax-style techniques, show some sort of progress indicator when the request takes longer than a few seconds... or don't use pjax-techniques when they're really not necessary.

Re: How to properly plagiarize a website

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Post by gk1 »

yashodhan wrote: post #31

I can't decide if it's a general aversion to public complaining, or if this company is really as arrogant and self important as this article made them out to be. In fact, after the thuggish threats, I'm pretty sure it's arrogance.

What?

Are you saying they are arrogant for outing a plagiarizer?

Re: How to properly plagiarize a website

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Post by Killswitch »

grundprinzip wrote: post #10
OliC wrote: post #4

Replacing the title with "Come back! We miss you!" when you leave the tab is cute but it makes finding the article in a sea of tabs difficult.

It's an awesome eye-catcher, they should make a JQuery plugin (if it doesn't already exist). And the code is rather (minified) simple: https://gist.github.com/grundprinzip/5868304

No need for a jQuery plugin, it's simple to do. I noticed it too and looked through their JS and found it to be way more complicated than it needs, using jQuery.

http://jsfiddle.net/Killswitch/BSukL/show/

Nothing on the page but the code, so open that in a new tab and swap tabs to see it in action.

Re: How to properly plagiarize a website

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Post by mattmanser »

lighthazard wrote: post #24
Ygor wrote: post #8

The best part is that the plagiarized site is a nominee for a css design prize? Infinum is one of the top developers here in Croatia. Nice to see them responding well to this.

Responding well to them? Their design is a standard template - slider below a menu, 3 columns below that, brands/testimonials below that, large footer. The only similarities I really see are the structure of the templates, and both look like they're from bootstrap, so I'm not sure what the stealing is complaining about.

I wonder if you're design blind? I've met a few people like that before. If that's all you think there is to a design, the 'standard' layout, you've missed a lot.

Are you seriously going to tell me you can't see the similarity between:

http://www.infinum.co/services http://kintek.com.au/services/

That most websites don't have that curve, or the spacing on the left/right or the little bar above the menu rather than below or any of the things that screams a rip? Then scroll down to the footer and they're identical.

Go open any other software consultancy website and see if you can see those same similarities?

There's so much more to a design than just the grid layout.

I've seen this happen myself at a company I consulted for, they told the designer they wanted a website that looked like X's website, so the designer pretty much cloned the website, moved a couple of things around and changed the logo. Client thought it was wonderful.

On a separate note, does anyone else find the indenting of the HTML on the infinum site to be very odd?

Re: How to properly plagiarize a website

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Post by danielweber »

jgrahamc wrote: post #9

I worked at a company where our web site was copied by a competitor entering the same domain. They copied the look of the site but also copied the Google Analytics tag as well. We found out about them because their page views showed up in our analytics.

I worked at a company where the competitor included our typos in their product. Good times, good times.

Re: How to properly plagiarize a website

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Post by andrew_gardener »

gk1 wrote: post #43
yashodhan wrote: post #31

I can't decide if it's a general aversion to public complaining, or if this company is really as arrogant and self important as this article made them out to be. In fact, after the thuggish threats, I'm pretty sure it's arrogance.

What? Are you saying they are arrogant for outing a plagiarizer?

I think he's referring to how they are arrogant for threatening them, sending them "design tips", and playing themselves up as sexy and dangerous all in the same message.

They definitely have a valid point about the plagiarism but they're being really cocky and showy about it.

Edit: Ya, they might have been trying to be funny or venting, I can understand that. But they really shouldn't have ANY kind of physical threat in there at all. Its childish and just pointless posturing.

Re: How to properly plagiarize a website

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Post by gk1 »

andrew_gardener wrote: post #48
gk1 wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What? Are you saying they are arrogant for outing a plagiarizer?

I think he's referring to how they are arrogant for threatening them, sending them "design tips", and playing themselves up as sexy and dangerous all in the same message. They definitely have a valid point about the plagiarism but they're being really cocky and showy about it. Edit: Ya, they might have been trying to be funny or venting, I can understand that. But they really shouldn't have ANY kind of physical threa…

I thought they were just trying to be slightly funny.
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