yeah that is just ridiculously blatant and so comical with his copyright notices at the bottom! No 'permission given' information anywhere, be it the About page or at least some commenting in the HTML or CSS!
I can accept that sometimes designers see a CSS layout that they want to base their site on, probably because I personally borrowed heavily from someones zengarden entry that I really really liked the look of, but I asked permission before I even started on it and even then you'd barely recognise it from the original. I just wanted to use it as a good starting point to work from and it taught me a lot of little tricks that I had no idea about! But ranada.com is just a blatant attempt at making him/her self look like some kind of uber-css wizard by completely copying someone elses design! Times like these I think a site hacking is an acceptable option... M. -----Original Message----- From: Chris Blown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 11:28 AM To: WSG Subject: [WSG] SimpleBits ripped - is this for real? I cannot not believe this.. How can someone be so dumb and lazy to do such a blatant rip off. Is this for real? I just had to post this, it boils my blood to see this sort of thing! http://www.simplebits.com/ http://ranada.com/home.xhtml Cheers Chris Blown http://hinterlands.com.au ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ ***************************************************** ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *****************************************************
