{"id":268,"date":"2008-11-30T18:56:18","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T00:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrissniderdesign.com\/blog\/?p=268"},"modified":"2008-11-30T18:56:18","modified_gmt":"2008-12-01T00:56:18","slug":"visual-plagarism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrissniderdesign.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/30\/visual-plagarism\/","title":{"rendered":"Mind if I borrow your design?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back when I was a newspaper designer, there was a lot of discussion about &#8220;borrowing&#8221; someone else&#8217;s design idea. See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsdesigner.com\/archives\/002629.php\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsdesigner.com\/archives\/002515.php\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsdesigner.com\/archives\/002508.php\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently the same rules apply in web site design. While reading a recent Gannett &#8220;best practices&#8221; idea from the <a href=\"http:\/\/argusleader.com\/\">Sioux Falls Argus Leader<\/a> on covering high school football, I somehow started thinking about my fantasy football team.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the Argus Leader page:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/argusleader.com\/section\/hssfootball\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-269\" title=\"argus\" src=\"http:\/\/chrissniderdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/argus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s the Yahoo Fantasy Football site:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/football.fantasysports.yahoo.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-270\" title=\"yahoo\" src=\"http:\/\/chrissniderdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/yahoo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"355\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.troyrutter.com\/2008\/08\/11\/romanian-company-rips-off-smartypigcom-design.html\">100 percent ripoff<\/a>, but I&#8217;ll tell you the one thing that bothers me the most. Those little lines under the main headline. It&#8217;s one thing to take a concept and make it your own. It&#8217;s completely another thing to copy someone&#8217;s design details:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chrissniderdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/closeup.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-272\" title=\"closeup\" src=\"http:\/\/chrissniderdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/closeup.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"174\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What do you think? Did the Argus Leader do anything wrong? The design of most <a href=\"http:\/\/gannett.com\/web\/newspapers.htm\">Gannett sites<\/a> looks the same. I&#8217;m sure there are other sites that use the same WordPress theme as me. Is this any different?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back when I was a newspaper designer, there was a lot of discussion about &#8220;borrowing&#8221; someone else&#8217;s design idea. 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