Re: New Apple II SuperSite Online

[Michael <michael@apple2world.com>]

In article <b_PF5.6869$wG1.21205@news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
  "Simon Biber" <simon@basilisk2.cjb.net> wrote:
> Whew I just loaded up the two pages side-by-side...
>
> Glad to know you've got this straightened up with them, Mike, but
from your
>
> It sounds like you copied it first, and then you were contacted by
Dieresis.
> I can see why QC doesn't like this sort of behaviour. Web design is
big
> business and they could put a large value on the images and imagemaps
you
> took.
>
> In web design it is usual to take ideas from other people's sites.
But not
> whole layouts.
>
> Now why didn't you even take out the links on the lower part of the
menu
> bar?
>
> Simon.

Simon:

I didn't remove the links because the intent was to also help them
promote their Newsboy product.  Again, the intent was not there to rip
them off as Quantum Cat has tried so abundantly to accuse and convict
me of, it was included with samples to their newsboy program and
because the look was nice, I used it.  If I was trying to steal the
page, I would have removed all references to Dieresis, and nobody would
have crossed both paths... it was just Quantum Cat trying to knock down
another apple2 site... if it becomes that big of a deal, I'll redo the
thing from scratch with my own web development team.  It's not like we
don't have abilities to do our own stuff, check out
http://www.iqintermedia.com - our main corporate site... we've got all
the bells and whistles for graphics, etc.  I suspect that because in an
attempt to promote someone elses product to others (Newsboy), that
Quantum Cat needed to find SOMETHING wrong with the site, so he chose
what he thought was a blatent rip off of the site.

Anyhow, the reason I used that site was the look, I liked it, and
thought that by using their product and promoting it would help them
out.  I may just redo the whole thing to eliminate this debate... the
site is getting more publicity for the page layout than the site
itself, which was not my intent.

I do appreciate you talking about it rather than out and out accusing
me like QC did.. take care!

Mike


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