Acceptance
Posted by mr_chill on October 16th, 2008
I was visiting websites as part of my Link Referral penance when I ran across a website that uses the same template as I do. What a shock! I mean I knew it was open source when I began customizing it for my site but I guess I figured once I took it nobody else would. Then I looked into it a little further I found out two rather distressing things. One, they have been using it longer, and Two, they removed the copyright and by line at the bottom of the page. Now, I respect Andreas Viklund , the designer that created Andreas09, (my template), a great deal and I leave his info at the bottom of the template because it’s the right thing to do. So when I saw this obvious violation of web design etiquette I was angry and began thinking of ways to rectify the situation like sending emails condemning the practice. Then I realized it was not my place to do anything and I took a look at my motivation as well, I think I was jealous because their site is better than mine. That is what this is all about, I’m mad because this person beat me to it and did a better job of customizing it and so I wanted to find anything I could to degrade them. Once I was finished with my introspection I went back to that site and learned all I could about the methods they use and now I am a better designer than I was before I ran across that site. How about that? I turned a neg. into a pos. Well anyway I guess there is still a little envy left in me or I would not have written this at all.