Holy Crap - Indian "Design" Company just got soooo busted ripping off site

[DS1]

Original
http://www.pixelranger.com



Ripoff - total fucking shameless ripoff
http://www.enthof.com/solutions.html

[evlbstrd]

1. I've seen the pixelranger "look" elsewhere,

especially the too tiny pixel font. I can't read that shit and won't even try.

[DS1]

4. *psst* You're not supposed to try read the tiny text

It's decoration

[evlbstrd]

7. So it's all about the Flash?

Even more useless.

[DS1]

8. *giggle*

:*

[miss_kitty]

2. Whaddya mean?

One's blue and the other is red. Plus the music is like, TOTALLY different!

[Deja Q]

3. Oy, give us low bandwidth chaps a warning for those flash-based sites!

Flahs is a joke, but still...

[DS1]

6. Flash isn't a joke. Perhaps your experiences with it have been

but some people are making some wonderful things with it.

[Redstone]

10. You MUST admit that 99.9999% of Flash usage

is gratuitous, pretentious, and annoying, if you're any kind of Web professional, and I know you are.

I am sure you are correct that some people are making wonderful things with it (animated cartoons, for one), but the VAST majority of it is what I like to call "Art Director's Revenge."

You know that's true. Come on, it's just me you're talking to, I'm your friend, you can admit it.

Redstone

PS: I go too far the other way. I won't allow my customers to use Flash in their websites. If they insist, they have to go elsewhere for Web design. So far, nobody's insisted. Go ahead and call me a dinosaur; I probably deserve it.

[Elidor]

12. I respect that approach

I believe in extreme simplicity for web sites, and flash use often *IS* gratuitous. It should be reserved for designers who want to impress/annoy other designers. But eye candy will always sell. The customers think it's supposed to make them cool because the web designers tell them it does.

[DS1]

13. I try to avoid linking bad design with a particular method of delivery

Flash gets its bad rap because it's easy to download and make shit move around. So it often is overused, gratuitous, pretentious etc.

It's still a very capable software package, it's the self-control of its user base that's the problem. Personally I'm the opposite on the animated web cartoons thing, I think that vast majority of them are junk. It's the odd clean and efficient interface that I run across which makes me enjoy navigating and exploring a flash based site.

[sendero]

28. I agree...

.. anybody that uses Flash on the home page as a sort of animated motif is more interested in himself than he is the web user.

The second link in the OP - web masturbation at it's most annoying :)

[-..__...]

9. Works cool for Game Boy, X-Box or the latest Bruce Willis movie...

websites.

HTML in E-mail rocks too!.

Sometimes I miss websites when they were just ordinary black text on a grey background. ;(

[democracyindanger]

5. Pixelranger's originality got outsourced.

[jus_the_facts]

11. s'all greek to me....

.....somehow I screwed up my computer at work tryin' to change the resolution...had to stand there like a moran while the system admin. guy took my tower away to fix it...sigh. :blush:

[miss_kitty]

17. Er- it's all GEEK to me!

:rofl:
I crack myself up.

[DS1]

14. I'm going to drag this right back to the front

Back to the FRONT :headbang:

[bridgit]

15. eh, looks like some sort of 'trendy template' or other...

http://www.trendyflash.com :shrug:

[DS1]

16. No, the first one is custom built

by a designer - not someone who trolls through template sites.

[DS1]

18. and secondly

this makes me want to cry?

this is the most horrible thing i've ever seen
and it completly validates Redstone's one in a million ratio of good sites

http://www.trendyflash.com/tdcsb/samples/sample10/index.html

[bridgit]

19. well ok, maybe clearly not so 'trendy' after all but...

even when you get a dreamweaver, or whatever software pack, don't they have like a set of standard templates in there. i mean who wants to be original; i see this as original: http://www.aeonflux.com

[DS1]

20. Yeah, but it's Flash, and "Flash is a joke"

:shrug:

What's a guy supposed to do?

A shitty site laid out in Photoshop will look equally shitty in html or flash - which was my point above.

[bridgit]

22. too true...

:thumbsup:

[LynzM]

21. Ick.

That site got 10 seconds of view time before I got sick of waiting to find out what it was... ;)

[Redstone]

24. Christ on toast points, you're not kidding! That one is SO wrong, on SO

many levels, I couldn't even get started in describing the ways it's wrong...

Redstone

[Redstone]

23. Oh, good Lord. They may be responsible for the crime of inflicting

thousands of lame, horrid Flash-based websites on the unsuspecting public by putting such a weapon in the hands of people who have NO talent, so they buy "You Too Can Build Fancy Websites With A Click Of The Mouse Button" software, but at least they're cynically honest with the name of the website: "TrendyFlash."

I'll be they're secretly ashamed of themselves, like the people who wrote the code for Microsoft Front Page should be, but what the hell, everybody's gotta make a buck...

Redstone

[bridgit]

25. too true, Redstone...

:D

[DS1]

26. You know. I was thinking something similar

I bet they were ashamed of such crap, but on the other hand, given my financial situation, I was secretly jealous of them for coming up with it first :rofl:

[Redstone]

29. Yup. I'd have done the same, given the opportunity. Money talks,

and bullshit walks, after all.

Of course, there are limits to what I'll do for a buck, but after all, the people who came up with that software didn't desing those hideous websites themselves, they just made it possible, so...yeah, I'd sell that software if I had invented it.

Redstone

[ghostsofgiants]

27. Websites that automatically play music should be abolished

I'm trying to listen to my own damn music jackass!