So young and already being ripped Wednesday, October 11, 2006
This Arabic website seems to enjoy my design. Am I supposed to be flattered? I guess, this officially welcomes me to the world of blogging.
Do have your say, please.
Do have your say, please.
Maleika writes on Thu Oct 12, 2006
Hello Darren,
yes, that is rather strange. More so probably, because it’s a primer for me. I guess this might not be worth losing hair over, though I could do with a haircut. :)
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Dan Nowak writes on Fri Oct 13, 2006
Sorry to hear this is happening to you. It is a wonderful design I can see why someone would be tempted to take it. You really did a wonderful design for your site
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Maria writes on Sat Oct 14, 2006
I second Dan Novak… This really is an elegant, refreshing and well thought design. Thumbs-up for you. As to the Arab copy-cat, it only shows the lack of talent and brains on their part. For me, a newbie to the world wide web, your site is an inspiration!
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Bradly writes on Tue Oct 17, 2006
Oh My Gosh that is hilarious. BTW how did you find that? I love to be able to see if some has stolen my site. Thanks.
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kory writes on Tue Oct 17, 2006
There’s an easy, albeit somewhat distasteful, solution to this: Simply duplicate & rename all of your current site’s images (and modify the CSS accordingly) and replace the old images with porn…
I’m sure it’ll get the point across.
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Maria writes on Tue Oct 17, 2006
To Kory: Please leave the Prophet of the muslims out of this. Haven’t you heard the news of what has happened in the past (recent past at that) everytime someone takes anything related to certain issues and tries to turn it into a joke? ie.: Karl Lagerfeld in a design worn by Claudia Schiffer?… The German newspaper and the caricatures that regretably decided to publish?… Just to name a couple. Whoever you are wake-up we are living in very dangerous times! and with this kind of comment you can get yourself and the owner of this site in trouble. Haven’t we learned any lessons yet?
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Maleika writes on Wed Oct 18, 2006
Hi Kory,
while I would not have any problems with this approach per se, I - like Maria mentioned - am not comfortable in taking such a personally insulting step because - after all - the person in question (whoever he or she is) probably didn’t mean to be disrespectful, eventhough he/she certainly has due to the rip. But perhaps he/she is learning and uses the design or CSS as a guidance of some sort. It still doesn’t justify just ripping someone else’s design but ridiculing is also not a means I’d choose. The alternative, as you also mentioned here, is to just change my logo (which was recommended by someone else) and turn that into a phrase like “don’t steal my design” or something down those lines.
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Joshua Kendall writes on Sat Oct 21, 2006
You could take the image idea to a lesser degree and duplicate the background to say “Please don’t steal my site"… over and over and over again. :)
Or you could just prevent hotlinking with an .htaccess file.
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waXpoet writes on Sun Oct 22, 2006
but...but.... looks like you ripped it off from this guy! lol
http://www.unmatchedstyle.com/gallery/dotkraft.php
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Maleika writes on Sun Oct 22, 2006
I ripped it from myself? Errr, very funny.
The gallery entry on unmatchedstyle IS my design. And I’m not a guy.
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lunatinker writes on Thu Oct 26, 2006
i think the guy on that site is just not as smart about it; usually people upload a screenshot of a site to talk about. i believe that rip is an article, not really a rip. those ads woouldn’t be on a normal portfolio....script kiddies are having kids now? omg…
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Christina writes on Sat Oct 28, 2006
I’ve seen this before with Chinese sites. He/She didn’t rip you off, they’ve just captured the site and translated - that’s why your links are still there.
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Varun writes on Mon Oct 30, 2006
Report em to http://www.ripperhunting.com/ after their reboot. I hate when things like this happen >_< (btw great site you’ve made - came across it today!)
Darren Hoyt writes on Thu Oct 12, 2006
Check out the top navigation—it still contains absolute links to your site! And they didn’t even omit the Dotkraft logo. What the hell.