someone stealing Andy Collins' webdesign?

[rkanodia]

Hey all. Take a look at these two sites:

http://www.andycollins.net
http://www.colin4judge.com

Are the graphics involved public domain, or part of a common webdesign software package or something? I'm just kind of curious.

 

[Morrus]

Well, both have obviously used Microsoft Frontpage to create their sites. I doubt very much that the designer of colin4judge.com has ever seen Andy's site.

 

[Hypersmurf]

He even stole Andy's last name!

I bet he thinks making a little cosmetic tweak will protect him from copyright law, but anyone can see that "Colin" is just a "Collins" rip-off...

-Hyp.

 

[pennywiz]

I doubt colin4judge has any chance of winning. Under "Experience" he doesn't list any RPG companies and he doesn't have a proper section 15 in his "Contributors" section. He obviously just threw the site together to trade on the name and will be shot down when someone reviews his campaign on EN World's d20 Reviews pages.

 

[Black Omega]

The mouseover is pretty standard frontpage, as is the basic design.

The graphics are the same, no doubt. But no idea where they might be from. I can say that having looked at the site Andy directs you to for comments on the website itself, I doubt that person designed the graphics seen on Andy's page, so they might well be from some public domain set.

 

[Michael Morris]

If I'm not mistaken the artwork is clipart provided with Frontpage. I've seen it on more sites than these two.

 

[erian_7]

Eh, for that matter check out http://living-greyhawk.com/

 

[yangnome]

the background is from frontpage. I just redid someone's website who had used frontpage, and that background.

 

[rkanodia]

Thanks all. I don't do that crazy WYSIWYG editing environment jive, so I didn't know. Thanks much. Still funny

 

[Hand of Evil]

What is going to be funny is the site hits and the conncil man seeing all these gamers visiting his site....I think I need to apply to the table top gaming groups more!