Re: Similar sites

Hi, Sherry!

Thanks for your input.  Did you look at both sites?  Do you think I am "guilty" 
of plagerism (sp)?  I didn't really think about it until today, when I received 
her request to add the links page.  When I started the site, I gave the 
competitor's site the once over, told myself "well, you can't just make a copy 
of this and call it your work" and then I proceeded to design a site from the 
input my client gave me.  Now I am in a quandary as to whether I should publish 
it or not.

dale


Quoting Sherry Reed <proassistplus(at)ctcn.net>:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dale Worley <dale(at)hiwaay.net>
> To: <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 11:59 AM
> Subject: Similar sites
> 
> 
> > Hi, everyone,
> >
> > I have been working on a site for a client who does legal
> consulting.  She has
> > asked me to design a page that is very similar to one of her
> competitors.  She
> > wanted me to lay it out almost exactly as her competitor's, but I
> took the
> > information she gave me and tried to design a unique site for her.
> They are
> > both in the same business, providing the same service, so of course
> the
> > information will be similar.  But she recently asked me to include a
> page of
> > links on her site.  She simply sent me a fax of the competitor's
> links page and
> > asked me to put that on her site.  I feel weird about doing this - I
> don't see
> > why she can't have offsite links, but I feel as if I would be
> stealing if I
> > just simply took all those links and then stuck them into my design
> template.
> >
> > The two sites in question are:
> >
> > My client's site:  http://www.imagineservices.net/~ejs/
> > Her competitor:    http://www.southerncare.com/
> >
> > I would appreciate anyone's input on this.  I am new in business and
> I am
> > striving to provide a good service, but I also want my business to
> be run in an
> > ethical and professional manner.
> >
> > TIA!
> > Dale Worley
> > imaginecomputerservices.com
> >
> Hello Dale-
> 
> It is unethical to *plagarize*.  You can really get into some legal
> issues that way.  You and she should be careful.  Ask her competitor
> if you can use his site as a template.  He might not mind!  (Kind of
> like-the highest form of flattery . . . )  You should get permission
> from each of the *links* owners before you put them on her site.
> Also, they *might* want to put her link on their sites.  (You
> know-"quid pro quo"-as Hannibal would say!  ;~))
> 
> Best of luck-Sherry
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