Now that the Sphinn post seems to of dropped in rank I will change the title of this post to try and stop us ranking higher than the real website.

I haven’t copied any designs as I don’t design! But yes I have no doubt our designer takes “ideas” from other websites. All layouts are pretty much copied anyway, most websites use 1,2,3 column designs with or without headers and footers. I would probably sack him if I found out he had blatantly ripped off the code from another persons site though.

Seeing as the comments are still open I thought I’d wade in with some familiar rhetoric

I’m kidding, James

But if you do the crime you pay the time. Whether or not it was a mistake that’s been resolved, ignorance is no defence – that’s what I’ve always been told. If somebody had “borrowed” so heavily from my site I too would have been right on the blog.

In my opinion James has every right to be mad, offensive, public – whatever. DP is a brand they no doubt work hard on and he is just protecting that.

That being said, is there any such thing as original design these days? Everybody copies everybody else. I’m sure you’ve done it too, James.

However, when I’m copying somebody’s design i try and make sure the site is not in anywhere near the same sphere / industry, and at least the colours, fonts / photography etc are diferent. To be honest it’s layout I copy when a bit of inspiration is needed (lucky I dont do the designs anymore!)

Hats off to the company in question or at least responding “quickly” (I won’t further increase their reputation management issue by naming them!).

A lesson should be learned here for budding designers. Not just about creating ‘origional’ designs for websites, but about not screwing with a seo company who actually know a bit about what they do

Reputation Management anyone? You’ll need to be a good seo company to sort this one out unless james is thinking about Karma any time soon:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Tindall+Marsh+%26+Co&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

Meh I know I should close the comments, but it ain’t gonna happen, I am a believer in free speach(ish)! I am on my computer most of the time, so I should be able to moderate anything that is too bad. Also its nice to get comments on a blog, good or bad hahah.

I need to pull my finger out and get back into blogging, just been too busy this month or 2.

Yeah have a good chrimbo mate, think we are off from tomorrow to the start of January, though I may take the free time to work on our own sites rather than client sites.

i have seen things like this get quite messy.

IMO I would close the comments, just in case.

Paul

P.S. Have a good one over the Holidays.

Good luck to you all in you business and I think james needs to rectify this situation due to Tindall Being unaware and you running your mouth before knowing the facts!

Anyone with two cents would only rank a company that could rank themselves, how else will they rank you if they can’t rank themselves?

I am not having a go at Tindall I think it is good they were proactive and solved the situation. I get the feeling we keep treading over the same ground here. I would close the comments but I feel it would look like some form of censorship.

Peter, we are quite busy thank you, and we are not committing any liable as all the things stated so far have been the truth. If any commenter does commit an act of liable that I am aware of I shall edit the comment accordingly.