Over 20 designers have copied my website and I don't mind
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Over 20 designers have copied my website and I don't mind
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Re: Over 20 designers have copied my website and I don't mind
#2"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery"
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#3I wouldn't be very happy if I hired a designer based partly on his website and then found out that he copied the design.
Just sayin'.
Re: Over 20 designers have copied my website and I don't mind
#4I wouldn't be very happy if I hired a designer based partly on his website and then found out that he copied the design. Just sayin'.
Exactly. While it may be flattering to be copied, rote copying by a designer for what is presumed to be a demonstration of creativity is not acceptable.
Some of these are perfectly reasonable adaptations, others are quite close to duplicates.
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#5he does mind, which is why he posted this; he's staking original ownership on this design in a humble way
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#6Is there a way to fingerprint the code in such a way that it's quite difficult to detect/remove but easy to trace?
Re: Over 20 designers have copied my website and I don't mind
#7I wouldn't be very happy if I hired a designer based partly on his website and then found out that he copied the design. Just sayin'.
Exactly. While it may be flattering to be copied, rote copying by a designer for what is presumed to be a demonstration of creativity is not acceptable. Some of these are perfectly reasonable adaptations, others are quite close to duplicates.
With enough time, I'm sure we could uncover art with the exact same design style that was created prior to his website.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Exactly. While it may be flattering to be copied, rote copying by a designer for what is presumed to be a demonstration of creativity is not acceptable. Some of these are perfectly reasonable adaptations, others are quite close to duplicates.
With enough time, I'm sure we could uncover art with the exact same design style that was created prior to his website.
That seems highly unlikely, unless he plagiarized himself. You might find something similar, but unlikely a split face with similar styling, the designer/code split, etc.
Re: Over 20 designers have copied my website and I don't mind
#9Is there a way to fingerprint the code in such a way that it's quite difficult to detect/remove but easy to trace?
You could imagine using a special filter to pass your html/css/js though that applied a special transformation that you could later on try to recognize. Perhaps it renames all of the variables with some pattern or from some dictionary that you could later try to use to see if the code matched the pattern. This is along the ideas of stenography.
Re: Over 20 designers have copied my website and I don't mind
#10A while back I got really annoyed when two of my competitors copied the buttons, pricing table and the content of two of my websites. This guy is handling it well. I understand getting some inspiration, but copying the whole thing is just too much. They are "designers".