Greeno's Website

Cortland · Post by **Cortland** » Wed Sep 30, 2009 10:51 am

ArevaloSOCOM wrote:http://www.tapout.com/

http://www.tapout.com/
http://www.advanced-armament.com

... wait a minute!!!

smcharchan · Post by **smcharchan** » Wed Sep 30, 2009 11:09 am

Cortland wrote:
ArevaloSOCOM wrote:http://www.tapout.com/
http://www.tapout.com/
http://www.advanced-armament.com

... wait a minute!!!

Nice! (And you weren't a prick about it!)

Cortland · Post by **Cortland** » Wed Sep 30, 2009 11:18 am

smcharchan wrote:Nice! (And you weren't a prick about it!)

I would've been if I thought it were necessary!

Twinsen · Post by **Twinsen** » Wed Sep 30, 2009 6:45 pm

www.anynumetalband.com

Cortland · Post by **Cortland** » Wed Sep 30, 2009 11:06 pm

For F--k's sake, can we get some additional input on this?

Maybe the problem with Green0's site isn't the fact that it's a copy, it's the fact that it's a 3rd generation copy. You lose a little something at each iteration -- if he had copied directly from Tapout like AAC rather than going through an intermediary, maybe his site wouldn't look so lame.

TypeR632 · Post by **TypeR632** » Wed Sep 30, 2009 11:36 pm

Calm down Cortland your gonna blow an o-ring.

Cortland · Post by **Cortland** » Wed Sep 30, 2009 11:43 pm

I'm just sayin' ... it seems like AAC started this with their blog post, and now SOCOM posts the Tapout website and

AAC's copy is done with enough skill that it's clearly a copy. At least Green0's site is sufficiently sloppy that it's difficult to tell if it's strictly incompetence or perhaps incompetence coupled with ill-conceived innovation.

Stu · Post by **Stu** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 12:23 am

I'm no web designer, but I have a VERY strong suspicion that all three of the mentioned companies just used the same company that sells pre-made website designs. That's what we did with our insurance agency. It's the same reason that nearly all web forums look nearly identical.

ArevaloSOCOM · Post by **ArevaloSOCOM** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 12:32 am

Only one of them is the chicken and the other 2 the egg.

I know Greeno is an egg.

That leaves AAC and Tapout.

I have no idea which came first.........

rob_s · Post by **rob_s** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 4:08 am

Cortland wrote:
ArevaloSOCOM wrote:http://www.tapout.com/
http://www.tapout.com/
http://www.advanced-armament.com

... wait a minute!!!

there's a whole lotta irony there.

Twinsen · Post by **Twinsen** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 4:23 am

Come on, I know one you guys listens to some terrible new band. Just go to their website and see the same layout.

Outsydlooknin75 · Post by **Outsydlooknin75** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 8:32 am

ArevaloSOCOM wrote:Only one of them is the chicken and the other 2 the egg.

I know Greeno is an egg.

That leaves AAC and Tapout.

I have no idea which came first.........

Which one is smoking a cig already? That will tell you who came first.

JasonAAC · Post by **JasonAAC** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 9:53 pm

I have no idea what went into the current site design, as it was done before i joined the team. But, the issue is not just design similarity, it is design similarity within the same industry- similarity amongst (and I use this word VERY lightly) competitors. Granted the other fellow has sold up to 50 cans, some blatantly racist, but in some general sense he is still a competitor.

the other site- It's a terribly heavy-handed attempt at a distressed look, then let's look at the product listings- Oh, why stacked rounded rectangle categories... that looks familiar. let's see the product page... oh, yup, name, then product image then paragraph description to the right. check!

st33ve0 · Post by **st33ve0** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 10:38 pm

JasonAAC wrote:I have no idea what went into the current site design, as it was done before i joined the team. But, the issue is not just design similarity, it is design similarity within the same industry- similarity amongst (and I use this word VERY lightly) competitors. Granted the other fellow has sold up to 50 cans, some blatantly racist, but in some general sense he is still a competitor.

the other site- It's a terribly heavy-handed attempt at a distressed look, then let's look at the product listings- Oh, why stacked rounded rectangle categories... that looks familiar. let's see the product page... oh, yup, name, then product image then paragraph description to the right. check!

Yeah, the menu layout and side panels from the tapout site are similar, but all of the other content on the tapout site is different.

JohnDS · Post by **JohnDS** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 10:38 am

So is the lawsuit going to be filed soon or what?