Sunday, April 5th, 2009
When I Said I’d Give Away My Font
…several people took everything BUT the font. Like my whole site.
I’ll keep this post really short, since these sit rips are becoming more common and less cool/flattering. In the past two months I’ve seen four identical versions of my site (but with my name/stats/work swapped out with theirs) and one that I have a hunch started as a copy/paste of my site, but luckily with original imagery (which almost stings more, but eh)…as of 5 minutes ago, the only site that still stands is this: http://www.nazmulalam.com/delta/
Look familiar?
I’ll post screenshots soon since three of the four (five?) offenders have removed “my” site. One even responded to my email (which has awesomely been replaced with this: http://gurdeepubhi.com ). I guess I’m writing this up now because I’m working on two sites which will launch soon that, in my opinion, are cooler than sursly.com. So I’m expecting them to get ripped.
They’re both 1-pagers and though they don’t use the same lead-through method that my current site does, they do everything else better/cooler.
Back to finishing the first of the two…
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April 7th, 2009 at 5:44 pm
Mannnn that’s ridiculous… Well, I can’t wait to see the new design. :)
April 14th, 2009 at 7:35 am
Wonder how can someone dare to copy the whole site and make a fuckin clone. Being a designer, I’m very angry about the shameless people who did that.
It’s time to use copyright laws.
April 24th, 2009 at 9:25 am
Unfortunately that’s what happens when you have a nice site design. I used to work for a Digital Agency and we had our site ripped off all the time – sometimes they wouldn’t even bother to change bits of copy so we’d just find it by searching for some of our sentences in Google. One of them hadn’t even changed the company name in some places!
The best thing about http://gurdeepubhi.com is that he built the new version in Microsoft Office – so neither a very good designer or developer then…
April 29th, 2009 at 12:47 am
I feel your pain. I had a nice design that was ripped once before. I love the design. I mean I can understand if someone wants to take the site as a reference, but leaving the same imagery and wording is just sad.
Good luck in the future, I’ll be following.
May 3rd, 2009 at 9:16 am
Wow. Never thought that this-ripped-off-website things still around this days.
I hope the guy who ripped off your site will die in vain.
May 3rd, 2009 at 9:23 am
deeennng~!
if that guy is my friend,ill surely give him a punch for you.
May 15th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
That’s crazy. I was expecting it but not a clone.
May 20th, 2009 at 11:34 am
ahahah, that is SO pathetic! How are people able to do that and not feel like a huge moron slash idiot?
January 10th, 2010 at 8:00 pm
Hey very nice blog!!….I’m an instant fan, I have bookmarked you and I’ll be checking back on a regular….See ya
I’m Out! :)