Now i have noticed a rather sad and un professional trend that still tends to exist among web designers here in Nigeria and its rather sad to think that at this present age and time that web designers can still be copying existing websites done by other fellow Nigerian web designers word for word, design for design.


Please i want to hear from you guys  your own views about web biting.

Thats a punishable offense under section X of the Nigerian developers law.

Hahahahaha

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It happens. . .

It happens is all you could say, anyway, where did you learn programming? Was it from the shrine

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From the sha-lan-ga dat i learnt programming, i know that any program can be copied or stolen. . .even if it is compiled. . .so it happens. . .o pari!

@DHTML

check the topic "IS IT ETHICAL" The poster never said "IS IT POSSIBLE". Anyway, by the tone of your response, I guess you do that a lot.

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for naija web designer PHOTOCOPY O EASY.


what I can suggest is that anytime we see a website that is a photocopy of another, we should expose it in this section

maybe if we disgrace dem small, them go stop.

Abeg help me yarn them

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i dont see anything bad with copying but it gets to an extent, it become unbearable.

will u say Seun copied craigslist? i will say yes and i dont think it is wrong.
how about someone who purchase a template, and the same template sold to 10 more developers with terms and conditions accepted by all parties?

Do you think it is fine to disgrace them because, they are not that good with graphics and decided to pay to get it?
You are referring to what u can see, what of the background codes like lightbox copied word for word?

@Webdezzi

You getting an idea from a similar website is different from copying style by style, tag for tag

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lol,

u remind me of my secondary school days

efikos would prefer to have average student dub their works/assignment rather than have dullards do it.
cos dumb skulls would do you no good, they will copy ur assignment word for word and run you into trouble


@nitation, remember i said it can become unbearable

Yep, there is a difference b/w rank xeroxing, photocopying, dubbing, diamond copying, scanning and cyclostating. It's all in the quality of the finished product

but all na copying sha? whether cyclo templating or diamond xeroxing
all na still dubbing and it is ok by me.

I am no saint as i take time to study others' work to find out what made it breathtaking. i wont even mind decompiling ur swf (i expect reactions)

I will let sleeping dogs lie here and not say anything else but that there is a difference between the following, assuming the original statement:

original:
I will go to the market today

copy 1:
I'll go to the market today

copy 2:
I will go to the market today after which I will be going home

copy 3:
I Will Go To The Market Today

copy 4:
I want to go to the market to today so I can get some cooking materials

copy 5:
I will go to the market today

copy 6:
I will go to the market today.

Are they all copies? Yep.  Having said that, there is a big difference in some, very little difference in others and in one particular case, no difference at all

I am all for copying. Heck, I learned that way too but downright ripping (or biting as mentioned here) is flat out wrong, is subject to plagiarism and if one were a member of a respected organization (SAN and ICANN come to mind), is subject to dismissal from such an organization.  At the very least, give credit to whom credit is due.  That's all I am saying.

Note, the question is, "is it ethical".  If it is by you (and without acknowledging the source), I guess that is what floats your boat.  It doesn't and will never float mine, thatz for sure.

humm this is intresting,

Hmmmmm. . .

Hmm, i look at other peoples designs and most of the time i try to find inspiration from them, true i may steal a few kinks here and there but nothing as a whole.

Anyways look at it this way,
If it was copied, that means they thought that your design was that GOOD.

cheers

There's really nothing wrong in copying the structure of the website. It gets irritating when the designer copies the content, color etc.