Someone’s ripping my design

Posted Wednesday, May 10, 2006 at 8:52pm in Blogging  | 

Only yesterday I was reading Neville Hobson’s post on ‘No compassion for plagiarists’ where Neville wrote: “Nothing is sacred on the internet, not the words you write and publish in your blog nor the pictures you take and upload to Flickr.”

A valid point. But what about if a person is in the middle of ripping your blog’s design?

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Hmm! Spot the similarities? I’ll take it as a compliment I suppose. I wonder what Matt’s view on it is. It is his design after all. And it’s not the first time someone’s liked his design so much they’ve tried to steal it.

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Matt Brett

Wednesday, May 10, 2006 at 11:13pm

*sigh* Worst. Not only did they jack the design, but they totally butchered it. Shit over-lapping all over the place. Man…

I don’t really have much to say about it. It’s one thing to be inspired by something you like. It’s another to steal it, hack it apart and claim it as your own. “Designed by BestGrafika” - now that pissed me off.

BTW, how’d you catch wind of this?

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Stephen

Wednesday, May 10, 2006 at 11:38pm

Looks like it has my urchin.js link. (Whatever that means?)

I found it in the ‘Content Optimization’ section under ‘Hostnames’ on my Google Analytics page.

It says in Goog Analytics: “If a domain appears on this report that is not one of your domains, the domain in question points to a website that has your urchin.js link (and possibly other content owned by you).”

And here’s BestGrafika’s site. (.ru) domain name is Russian.

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Drew B's take on tech PR

Thursday, May 11, 2006 at 9:12pm

Let’s get him.

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