Rip Off or Inspiration?
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- TheBlueOne
Would I be ripping off a site if I *cough* steal their typography CSS settings - font selection, color choice and some of the layout element concepts..
I really like them and wouldn't of come up with them on my own. I feel dirty...
- anxiousarms0
sounds like a text book rip off. try to at least move some of the layout around to make it more of an off shoot than a mirror.
- Krassy0
don't forget to switch out their logo for yours
- OnesandZeros0
i'm sure by the time you're done with it, it will be different enough
- d_rek0
yes. The thing to do would be to dissect their CSS to understand it and then apply what you have learned or like to your own stuff. It's obviousl when divs and css styles are blatantly copied though.
- Jnr_Madison0
This is a parody thread?
- I guess not.Jnr_Madison
- I got the wrong end of the stick, the end covered in shit.Jnr_Madison
- VectorMasked0
congrats.
that is the clear definition of "ripping off something"
- skt0
lol
- harlequino0
Go easy on him. He hasn't been the same since his 'puter blew up and he lost all that porn.
- gung_hoek0
go ahead. after all you did spent time finding the site, browsing it, coming up with an opinion, looking at the code, getting QBN approval. as long as the final thing is different, you adding stuff to the thing, it´s nothing to be ashamed about. thief.
- also, print designers do it all the time, stealing their type settings!gung_hoek
- but that's by eye, not by copying someone's css/indesign type settings.doesnotexist
- I am afraid you´re not kidding.gung_hoek
- TheBlueOne0
I'm tired...need more coffee...and I lost all my porn dammit!!!
- adev0
Did they use Trebuchet? oh wait, maybe Lucida Grande? Wait... its just Verdana and Tahoma.. no wait its just Arial. dang it. Too many fonts to steal. lol :)
- TheBlueOne0
Look, all I'm doing is saying - hey, I like verdana at the 9px size there, and that's a nice color other than the standard #333 or whatever...and I like the way they did their pull quotes. That's it...geez..you guys make me sound like a design fornicator...
- hallelujah0
design wants to be free
- janne760
it is ok. i do it all the time. it's the reason why i am here.
- anxiousarms0
design wants to be new
- TheBlueOne0
I have decided it's an inspiration and will proceed accordingly and with all necessary audacity.
- janne760
i always keep the inspiration blah greatest blah flattery blah blah in my mind when i transload someone else's site to a client's server..
- janne760
copying does not equal stealing
- gung_hoek0
...if you still feel dirty afterwards, format your hard drive and reinstall your OS.
- anxiousarms0
there was this chick i used to work with a few years ago. she really inspired me cause she was a wiz with the pen tool and illustration in general.
a couple months later i found almost everything she'd designed in the last 6-7 months on istock and one particular website template company's gallery. she'd really never done anything on her own, yet told me straight to my face that she did the work when i lauded her fr it.
that's real theft. that's fuckign fraud and i despise her to this day.
go ahead and rape that css shit.
- See that's fucked...TheBlueOne
- stab her in the facejanne76
- with a broken beer bottlejanne76
- taken from a plague infested homeless alcoholicjanne76