Our site gets ripped, but gues what, we caught them.
Help us digg this and learn this guys a lesson .
This afternoon i get a call from Veljko, my friend and partner at DevPulse saying: "guess what someone ripped our site, please log on ICQ, you must see this."
Now that was a shocker 
While i waited for icq to connect, i thought that someone probably has seen our site at cssmania.com or some other gallery, and modified our design in some way. But, boy I was wrong.
And there it was:
www.vibe-industries.nl/index.html
Upon first look i did not even see any major resemblance except that place where logo stands, but more that I looked more things i noticed.
-Structure is basically the same.
-Header and footer are same height as on original site.
-Header background is same as on original site.
-Footer colors are not changed at all.
etc...
Then i looked at the source code...
Now this was priceless, i mean should i even comment on this?
http://www.vibe-industries.nl/index.html
<link href="devpulse.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
Or even this?
<h1 class="welcome-text"><span>Welcome to DevPulse</span></h1>
And we have a winner:
<div class="logo"><a href="index.html">DevPulse Web Development and Consulting</a></div>
Here is what I'm talking about,take look by your self.
It was by far the worst and most amateur case of site rippoff that i ever seen in my life.
And it happened to us
Now what i want from you is to spread this link and/or digg this story.
They did not ask me when they ripped our site, so I'm not even gonna try to contact them, they will find out sooner or later.
Let this public humiliation be a lesson to them.
p.s.
to guys at vibe-industries.nl,
if someone else designed your site that does not take responsibility off you, you should always give important job like this to some professional and not to someone who did this.
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on November 9th, 2007 at 11:22 am
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on November 9th, 2007 at 10:59 pm
Besides the footer the site looks different enough, are you telling me you didn't learn html/css by mimicking others? I personally would be flattered if someone copied me.
on November 9th, 2007 at 11:17 pm
Dry your eyes!
on November 10th, 2007 at 8:31 am
Err.. who cares your site looks crap, at most take it as a compliment.
Its not the crime of the century....
on November 10th, 2007 at 10:42 pm
Hi Guys,
Hereby an reaction by VibeIndustries theirselves.....
We found out about the discussion by a referal in our websites visiters log..
Our designer came up with this design and we gave permission to build it...
Because it was good looking!! We don't take any responsibility on this!
We deeply regret the resemblesses....but we won't change the look of our website. It's not a crime! There are a lot of same looking websites on the web....
on November 10th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
:)
If sites are just "same looking" why is there devpulse writen all over your source code?
At least tell your "designer" to remove that
Thanks.
on November 11th, 2007 at 2:05 am
@ronald:
Ok, you removed "devpulse" from code and renamed devpulse.css, thanks for that.
Websites still incredibly same looking, but who cares, if you are ok with that there is nothing that we can do about it. Good luck in your business.
on November 11th, 2007 at 2:09 am
P.S.
next time hire professional web designer
on November 11th, 2007 at 6:39 pm
Jesus, who cares if somebody nicked a bit of your code. A) They don't look that much alike. B) It is not like they are attempting to do the same thing as you. C) I am sure you have nicked a piece of code at one point in your life.
D) it isn't that good anyway,
on November 12th, 2007 at 2:36 pm
They should learn to spell too ""resemblesses" is not a word ... perhaps they mean "resemblances". Also they mustn't be able to steal a dictionary ... or in THEIR case a DICKSHUNARY!
on November 13th, 2007 at 8:52 pm
Get over yourselves. The spirit of the web is that it's open. This allows everyone to borrow elements from each other. All web sites can have it's structure and styling lifted. So what? It happens in all design disciplines.
You are right about one thing. Shame on vibe industries not changing to visual style because it's fucking appalling in all honesty.
Only one party needs to be shamed in this futile exercise, and it's devpulse for their small-minded, out-moded, out-dated attitude and for thinking their web site design is worth being bothered about.
Dickheads!
on November 14th, 2007 at 12:32 am
It might just be that I don't really understand css or html coding at all (*I just stumbled onto this blog here*) but the only thing that I can see that's similar in the pictures are that some of the frames are the same height, otherwise nothing else is really the same.
on November 14th, 2007 at 2:08 am
welcome to the internet, what you think you pwn ends up pwning you
on November 14th, 2007 at 3:26 am
I agree with some of the comments place here, I would only get pissed off if someone takes my shit, and makes it look incredibly worse, and take all the credit for it. I personally like to learn from different sites, borrow an idea or two from great work and ad my style to it, then create something new. Either way, as long as they don't sell your services, and take complete credit for your work it should not be much of a prob. On a positive note, these people are helping you spread consistency between websites, and it makes usability easier.
on November 14th, 2007 at 4:07 am
who cares. how much pirated music, movies and software do you guys have
on November 14th, 2007 at 4:41 am
Man I what losers copying your work
And not even asking
on November 14th, 2007 at 5:27 am
WTF!? This is what we get when we look at sites made by 14 yo kids. It's our fault.
on November 14th, 2007 at 6:13 am
How in the hell, in a time such as now, can any developer even start to bitch about someone using there code, or mimicking a portion of a graphical layout. In case you guys at delve have not been paying attention the past couple of years, let me introduce you to open source. Now, I'm not talking about the "free download, modify this source code how you want" open source. I am talking about the name given to the set of belief systems held by ones that honestly love, practice, and understand what it takes to grow in the technology era we now live in. Here is a great quote. "There is NOTHING new under the Sun". This was stated over 4000 years ago. You have done nothing "new" or even "of any grand worth" with your "everyday run of the mill" site. I've seen the same basic design 1000 times. So where did you steal the idea from. Probably from the collaborative work of 1000's of dedicated techies, that set todays standards for acceptable web design, and worry more about furthering the industry to its ultimate abilities, instead of throwing a bitch fit because, "he copied my answer!" Sounds to me like you all at delve embodie the self-righteous, pompous, crying, "I'm a greedy little Bitch", mentality that will soon lead to a employee staff comprised of nothing but washed programmers who can't figure out how the rest of the world is moving so much faster in development then they ever thought possible. I bet you all dream about working for microsoft.
on November 14th, 2007 at 6:31 am
You may want to make sure this whole thing isn't an attempt to get you removed from search engine rankings. This sort of thing is very similar to a standard tactic to hurt someone's search engine ranking.
on November 14th, 2007 at 3:48 pm
I cant really understand how someone calls that "borrowing your code" or "using a part of your code". The guy didnt "based his work" on this website - he downloaded it and (ab)used 99% of it - not "portions of code".
i mean come on. "i based my work on yours so much i didnt even change the css name"...
just for the note - he used your own code and you got proof of that - thats illegal where i live (and im sure on 90% of the other countries too).
on November 14th, 2007 at 8:39 pm
Still missing the point. It's not whether or not he used some of the code, a little of the code, or damn near copied the entire thing. What he did copy was a site that falls in the "every day, nothing special" category. I can turn on my browser and stumble to 10 random sites and find atleast a couple that look close to identical in design and layout. The fact that some guy used the code to then make his own site was hardly worth the amount of drama, bullshit, and crying like a baby, that this situation created. Maybey.... if this guy had created a site for a company that would be considered a competitor, or maybe if the had the same demographic of viewers, but there paths were never ment to be crossed. Get over it
on November 14th, 2007 at 10:54 pm
@jc28
Oh, now there is "little" thefts and "big" ones.
Nice to know that.
Just for the record, entire site is original and built from scratch, we coded every line of it. Thats why we take this personally. Maybe if you ever create something original, and live to see how others steal it and use it without your permission you could understand this.
Fact that you can visit some gallery and find bunch of similar sites, still does not make work that we put into it worthless.
Yet you come here, defend guys that steal our code, and underestimate our work.
on November 18th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
NO, no little thefts or big thefts. Make it real easy, be proud of your work, and stop being so proud that it causes you to cringe to think some one might not be giving you credit for the "wonderful masterpiece" of a website youve created. Let the guys have it. Let them show admiration to you
work. Hell, post it all over the internet saying "Look everyone, these guys liked my work so much, there using for their site." But starting a bitch fit and pleading for the removal of your work off the site, cmon....
No need for someone to steal any of the work I produce. I freely offer it to all. I can't think of a better feeling for a programmer, then knowing that someone liked my work enough to use it, or, better yet, that me offering my work to others for any use they desire, may have helped someone in any way. Whether it be personal knowledge, or financial gain. They bring me no harm in doing this, and all it could possibly have done is better the world of programing.