Tuesday, August 01, 2006

OK, I'm not sure if this should piss me off or not. Let me know what you think.

This is my website: www.deannawood.com

And this is the website of someone I was in grad school with: www.christadiepenbrock.com

Look familiar?

I know you can't copyright html code or even a design (not that my website was all that "designed"), but come on! She could have changed it at least a little bit, don't you think?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

how well did you know each other? (I humbly submit that lifting another's Web design shows a lack of creativity which reflects badly for an artist. At least post "Web design by Deanna Wood" or something!)

Deanna said...

I don't know her all that well (I think we might have had two classes together). I'm on her email list for shows and things. So I only discovered it because she had a link to her website in an email...
I'm going to redesign my website now. The "web design by..." suggestion is a good one.

Jenna said...

I've seen designers put statements on their web pages requesting that they be given credit for any designs that others "borrow", or something to that effect. Not that it's much of a deterrent, mind you. But if nothing else, maybe when this girl visits your site again, she might (big might) get a clue as to why you changed your design.