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By: Neil Thurlwell - SEO for BT (CustomerStreet)
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Jan
22

As an employee of Customer Street I need to keep up to date with all the latest design techniques. The best way I have found to do this is to regularly read web design articles and look at some of the best web designs on CSS Galleries.

One common mistake a handful of ‘wanna be’ web designer have is to blatently copy someone elses work. This is where they take a copy of someone elses website, change the logo and content, and then try to pass it off as their own. I’ve seen some really extreme copies where they don’t even change the logo !

Have a look at these screen shots

Joyeur

Paulo

I can understand using certain ideas from other websites as I do it myself, but I only ever use ideas from other websites if I can rebuild them and call them my own.

Remember: There is INSPIRATION and there is just COPYING. Don’t fall in the trap !

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On Wed 23 Jan Dennison Uy - Graphic Designer wrote :

Give credit to the original post on CSS Vault!

On Wed 23 Jan CustomerStreet - Neil Thurlwell wrote :

Hi, Thanks for bringing that to my attention. I actually thought I’d given credit to CSS Vault for the idea here.

If you would like to see the CSS Vault article please go to Heavily Inspired

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