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Trouble is - web site design is very fashion oriented. You can tell a 2011 site from a 2012 site. I find a lot of sites are very similar and put it down to a co
by bdfh42 14y ago
Trouble is - web site design is very fashion oriented. You can tell a 2011 site from a 2012 site. I find a lot of sites are very similar and put it down to a common fashion more often than copying. Font selection, icon colours and general layout is bound to "cluster" around a limited range of values at the leading edge. Look at the "please review our start-up" requests here on HN - most of those web sites pretty near interchangeable.
Having said all of that - copying is a no-no - taking inspiration from others - well that would be normal.
- zobzu 14y agoI always feel like its a flash website at first :P But yeah, I didn't realize either so many just flat out copy website designs. I guess this is a pretty common thing now :(
- mnarayan01 14y agoIt's _always_ been a common thing. Stuff like Google analytics just makes it way easier to tell that they're actually copying _you_.
- zobzu 14y agoAlright alright.
- DanBC 14y agoThere used to be a site that would run side-by-side comparisons of a site and a copy of that site. Some of the copies were pretty blatant. (http://pirated-sites.com/ http://pirated-sites.com/) They were pretty active around 2005. (http://web.archive.org/web/20050211143916/http://www.pirated-sites.com/ http://web.archive.org/web/20050211143916/http://www.pirated...)