Our design has been ripped again

Posted Thursday, 25 May, 2006 by Amran | permalink

This new site of ours has just been released for two weeks and already it has been ripped by another designer! We have previously reported on another designer ripping off our old site design. To our dismay, someone has copied this new one as well. The site took us over three months to design and to painstakingly code to be CSS compliant and these copycats ripped it in days!

Exhibit A: http://www.perfectcircledesign.com/nsi/

Full screenshot

Close up of the tooltip when you mouseover the logo image

How did we find out? Well, we were going through our web logs, and found the site linking back to us. When we saw the site, we found that it was quite similar to our site. But looking through the site, we found no links in the content explicitly linking back to us. So, we looked at the source code. And there it was in plain view, the logo image was linking right back to our website, and the ALT and TITLE attributes were still the exact ones we used on our site: "Logo of thepixelage".

Now, it seems like the site is for a company called NSIntegration, designed by this design firm called Perfect Circle Design. We are definitely dismayed and disappointed to have our design copied by so-called design companies and designers. But amidst the disappointment, we find it hilarious that these copycats simply copy the design and codes wholesale, making the joke truly on themselves.

They even copy our tagline "we adopt a "listen, formulate, realise" philosophy..." to "we listen, evaluate and solve,... so you don't have to.". DUH!