@Alex: I’m not a big Habs fan, but sure, why not? :)
Honestly, I still feel the whole thing sucks, but I’m done fighting, good luck with your site! I don’t bite (unless I feel it’s necessary) so anytime you wanna go for a poutine I’m down for that! Drop me an email!

@Alex: thanks Alex. I may not agree with you or your ethics and you know I’m not happy about the whole thing, but I appreciate that we’re able to communicate in some way here. If you ever want to talk to me directly you can reach me at jon (at) spyrestudios.com

@Samuel: good points, in fact it’s not only about the content on the sites, it’s about the general ideas (including: layout, colors, concept, grid, posting to Twitter, almost identical layout on single posts, similar choice of fonts, etc… the content is a small part of what bugs me.. it’s the site as a whole that bugs me) By the way, I’m french Canadian too (Montreal), nice to meet you! :)

Cheers
Jon

@mao : Content theft isn’t really the best argument you can come up with when you know that DesignNewz is posting links to other blog.

Sure they look a lot alike and I’m with DesignNewz on that point… if you want to use the same concept… a least change the design or bring something new.

I’m running a similar system with http://www.weblittlepieces.com (really basic layout compared to webdesign-ne-ws and DesignNews but I focus on the content). At first it was for the fun of it and a way for me to stay in touch with all those blog posts I couldn’t read at the moment. Simply archive them and share them. Now, finding original stuff is thrilling and I want to share the unshared.

So stop fighting about this and share as most as you can ’cause that’s the 2.0 spirit.

P.S : My english is a little bad (French Canadian) so sorry about that ;)

Thanks for the support guys! It pisses me off a bit to see my site ripped off and see Alex acting like it’s ok (we all know it’s not) even changing his layout to 2 columns doesn’t cut it in my opinion… but oh well…

Anyway, his site is probably not gonna get featured on the major css galleries and blogs (many site ownders already confirmed me they are not going to accept his site)… so, case is closed on my end. I don’t have any more time to waste on this. Cheers! :)

No question, it’s a ripoff. I understand ripping off the concept but why bother ripping off the layout. It’s not a bad design but it’s nothing special. If you’re going to plagiarize you might as well ripoff something wonderful.

ImageCo’s last blog post..Life happens while you’re making other plans

um, im not blind, its a ripoff, co-exist yes but at least put some originality in the design and url

@Kawsar: maybe they can co-exist. I just find it a bit odd that the site is… well, almost exactly the same as design-newz….

@Alex: Thanks for replying to this post. I’ve sent you a message using the contact form on webdesign-ne.ws, maybe it doesn’t work…

I’m happy you enjoy design-newz, I really do, but I just feel your new site is extremely similar to design-newz… of course it can be argued that css galleries and even most blogs all have similar layouts, but I simply find it odd that someone would start a new site with a similar grid (3 columns/boxes horizontally), dark colors, posting all links to Twitter automatically, in the same niche… I mean… it’s exactly like design-newz.com, isn’t it? You’re right, Script&Style was founded long before Design-Newz, but it’s very easy to see that the two sites are different, just look at the designs.

You see, I found out about your site because people have been emailing me asking if I’ve seen webdesign-ne.ws and saying they wouldn’t post it in their css galleries or ‘community news’ because they see it as a rip-off of design-newz.

So, can all the people who emailed me be wrong? Maybe….

@Jon Phillips:

Hi Jon,

I’m the owner of the site and I didn’t get any message from you :) so if you sent me something I want to let you know that I didn’t get it.

I don’t really get your point about the same grid, dark design, and RUNNING on WORDPRESS. for example, css directories don’t they have the same layout most of them, don’t they use wordpress 99% of them. when it comes to the dark design take it this way if you want I got inspired by you, even tho if you check my personal portfolio you’ll see that I’m using dark colors in almost 80% of my designs.
now when it comes to the concept I think http://scriptandstyle.com/ was found at least 7 months before your site, isn’t this the same concept, and I bet that you’ll find hundreds of the same websites :)

I just wanted to clarify this, your site is one of my favorite sites and I always benefit from the good links you post, I think the webdesign community is huge and even hundreds of similar sites won’t be enough for them.

let’s just spread the love :)

Cheers

Alex

Thanks for mentioning Design-Newz.com, it’s appreciated. As for Design-Ne.ws… well, I’ve sent an email to the person who created it already as it’s very very similar to my site. Like Jim said, I too find it kinda odd that someone would start a site with the exact same concept, a very similar grid, a dark design, running on WordPress, etc…. We’ll see what happens.

Cheers
Jon