By: Gretchie
I was a newbie once... you know the loud and annoying
midi, the stolen
images, the ripped off ideas, yah... we all remember... and
would like
to forget... the what I like to call "ugly years." Yes, my
1st webpage
was horrible, on AOL, loaded with .art images that I stole
from various
places... but one thing I never did. Steal source codes.
Now, I have my own domain (cephiro.nu) which I share with
my good
friend puu. We're now prone to rip offs. I know that, and
she knows
that. It's happened before with OM... a few images stolen,
you know
nothing major. Then I get a bone headed e-mail today saying
Hey! can
you link my new Haruka shrine? So I look at the link
provided and
notice that that layout looks one HELL of a lot like what
most of OM
looks like. (http://gretchie.cephiro.nu/om)
The white table over the background. It's not
hard to do
so I ignore it. Then I notice that the colors exactly
match the scheme
I use on MY webpage. I look at the source... and sure
enough... it's
my source. A little angry, I check out the rest of this
person's site
and come across the image gallery. Wow! I wonder where he
got most of
these images from... could it be MY PAGE *gasp* Outraged...
I e-mail
him asking for credit... and to change his webpage to get
rid of my
html that I worked hard on. He said, "I didn't steal your
source, the
SM TOOLBOX had it" When in fact the SM toolbox doesn't
teach white table
over bgs.
I chuckled a little at this guy's response, and thought WHY
do all
newbies USE the SM TOOLBOX as an excuse to steal? I'm not
downing
apatt's page at all, but all newbies think that because the
smtoolbox
is used as a HELP Resource... not as an excuse for making
your whole
webpage like many think. I sometimes wonder if some
newbies think, hey
I mentioned the SM toolbox... now they'll believe me! I
have one thing
to say to that... PEOPLE... WE'RE NOT STUPID! We can tell!
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