Thursday, August 16, 2012

Web development - make your beginning


One of the cardinal sins of web development is: "Even if you do not steal."

An important site in 2004 was caught lifting entire web pages from other sites and placing their logos and information on those pages.

In essence, the company found a site that liked her and wanted one built in, it looked just like that. This falls under the domain of intellectual property. You see, unless it is a design pattern that allows you to develop a page that looks very similar to another, then the lifting of elements from another web site uses the creative talent of others to achieve a personal goal and Financial. If you have not reached an agreement with the web designer or the company that created the job then you should not use the item.

You can develop something with a similar feeling to it, perhaps, but in some cases, companies have simply reflected the existing work and claimed as their own.

If you do this you will probably receive a cease and summons, and, perhaps, you are in court on the issue.

The use of models in web design can help avoid this problem simply because the work was designed to be used by the masses. Perhaps the most interesting development of web templates is that even within a model there is a large degree of customization.

You can edit images, colors and general layout. You will be given ample opportunity to create the page to meet your expectations. Perhaps the best part is that they will not be putting yourself at risk of litigation.

Web development should be about personal creativity and expression. It can be easy to look in another web site and conclude that it is so well done it makes sense to use it, but chances are if it is really good the site owner spent large sums of money for the development of the idea. They will not see the use of their material as flattery. Imitating their work constitutes a theft.

With web technology rich model builder that will have an extremely large number of models to choose from and adapt for your holiday. Perhaps the best part of using this is the freedom to use the template in any way that seems fit and incredible cost savings available to those who use this technology.

I know a man who has spent thousands of dollars in developing a site that uses Flash technology and had daily updated information and features. Someone liked the site so much that they created a mirror site with their exact domain name. The visitors were led to believe the site owner has provided a wealth of information when all that was done was complete the theft of thousands of dollars of work. The mirror site has been forced to close shop. My friend did not press charges, but has become careful to make sure visitors understand the work is copyrighted material and may not be used for purposes other than the singular pleasure of visiting your site.

By all means find items that you think would be helpful to your project, but make sure these items are not duplicates of something that already exists. Do you want your website to be around for a long time. Making all yours from the beginning .......

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