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Good god, they're using a AND z!

From CamWorld: There seems to be an entire posting tradition among the "web design" crowd about design ripoffs, where some fairly obscure site scrapes the design of some equally obscure-except-among-the-obscurantist-experimental-design-crowd site. I can see how it may be somewhat annoying, but for the most part, who gives a shit? Get over it already.

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Not only "who gives?" but also "gee, how many freakin' designs are there, really?"

Let's see. We need to present textual (I'm giving someone the benefit of the doubt, mind you) information into a vertical-scrolling interface. How many possible ways of doing that are there? There are several, but all of the so-called "designs" are more about which "cute trick" is used and what graphic elements are employed than about anything that could reasonably be called a true design.

The real designs aren't practical. What's practical isn't a design, just a layout. (Fine distinction perhaps, but there you go.) Rip off a unique graphical element and die. Rip of a layout and end up with a site that works without having to reinvent the wheel.