[Ben]

Congratulations to you Mark for winning the Website of the Month Award for April 2008!

Prize:
6 Month Premium Forum Membership + Badge
Promotional Badge for Website

Details:
Member: Mark
Website: www.marksimons.co.uk

[headcoat]

Ben, on Apr 17 2008, 18:40, said:

Congratulations to you Mark for winning the Website of the Month Award for April 2008!

Prize:
6 Month Premium Forum Membership + Badge
Promotional Badge for Website

Details:
Member: Mark
Website: www.marksimons.co.uk

Congratulations all and Mark.

And additionally 2lb I cannot believe your site only got one vote. I thought it was excellent. Then again I think the Headcoats were one of the great bands of the eighties and nineties but many would disagree.

Well done to Badmotherz who pipped me at the post, with 3 votes on the 16th April after closing on the 15th (I'm not complaining honest).

cheers all

[kip0130]

Congrats mark and all the entries were superb.

[Rob]

Well done everyone, it was certainly a close one this month!

And special congratulations are in order for Mark — excellent work!

[ElanMan]

Congratulations Mark! Excellent site!
And well done to everybody else; some really great sites there.

[notbanksy]

Congratulations Mark - very nice site, well deserved.

[Mark]

Yay! Thanks for the nice comments and votes from everyone along the way!

I really appreciate it! Im honoured! are on me!

Cheers ben.

[ErisDS]

Congrats Mark,
Very well deserved

[Dizi]

wooohooo well done

[Ravi]

Congrats Mark! Well done!

[slimboyfatz33]

Well done Mark , nice site, job well done!!!

[Scott S]

gratz Mark

[ThomasHardy]

Congrats Mark -

[tigerlabs]

Well done Mark!

[rjdejong]

Congratz

You had my vote

[Mark]

rjdejong, on Apr 18 2008, 15:51, said:

Congratz

You had my vote

thanks

thanks everyone else too! going to try and make full use of the premium membership for the next 6 months!

[Ben]

Mark, on Apr 18 2008, 17:29, said:

thanks

thanks everyone else too! going to try and make full use of the premium membership for the next 6 months!

Congratulations Mark, i'll get you your "Website of the Month" badge for your website this weekend

[angstmann]

Yep. Yours definitely stood out for me this month.... congrats.

[BlueDreamer]

Well done Mark

[Badmotherz]

Well done mate. Well deserved.

[Subhajit]

Congrats Mark.....
Keep it up..

[Mark]

ooo yay a badge! gimme gimme!!!

cheers peeps.

[pontypete]

Gratz! I voted for you !

[2lb]

headcoat, on Apr 17 2008, 18:50, said:

Congratulations all and Mark.

And additionally 2lb I cannot believe your site only got one vote. I thought it was excellent. Then again I think the Headcoats were one of the great bands of the eighties and nineties but many would disagree.

Well done to Badmotherz who pipped me at the post, with 3 votes on the 16th April after closing on the 15th (I'm not complaining honest).

cheers all

Congratulations Mark, your site is very good. Lol headcoat, and thanks

[pablomolinari]

Hi everyone! My name is Pablo, I live in Buenos Aires (Argentina), and as you can see on the left, I'm really a newcomer here, as this is my first post. Sorry for my primitive and awful english.

I took the time on registering and writing this post just to explain a few things, hope you understand me. I'm a freelance designer, and I named my portfolio "Ars Nova", you can see it at http://www.arsnovadesign.com.ar . Please take a look at it.

As you can see, Mark's site is identical, not just and "idea" of it. Logo, colors, the Bauhaus type on logo is -i hate to say this- copied from me. The point on the "i" letter even has the same three colors than my flower.

You can say "well... ok... but who came first?". Please let me refer you some entrys in which my site was featured:

Ala Brasil (11/08/2007). You can see date on the URL: http://www.alabrasil.../arsnovadesign/
Gouw.nu (11/19/2007). Go to the archives section... it was featured as the "styled" site of the day: http://www.gouw.nu/
The Daily Slurp (11/10/2007). Take a look at the Slurp for this day: http://www.dailyslur...?dts=11/10/2007
Web Creme (11/2007): http://www.webcreme....07/11/ars-nova/
Design Snack (11/07/2007): http://www.designsna...ge=info&id=5113

And many others as CSS Mania, CSS Clip, etc...

I'm really aggrieved that I have to came to this point, but as I saw that you gave Mark a recognition, I thought it would be fair that you know this. I'm not really stick to my work, in this few months I even had been asked for permission to make a Wordpress template based on my design (PortfolioPress), and my answer was "Good, go ahead!". That designer was Magnus Jepson, from Norway... and he did a really good job! And I didn't get a penny for that... but this one thing came too far.

Sorry for this post. But I really needed to express myself. Hope you understand me. If I bother somebody, my most sincere apologies.

Regards,

Pablo Rodriguez Molinari
www.arsnovadesign.com.ar

[Rob]

There is no doubt that one of these websites is a clone of the other. It will be interesting to see how this pans out…

[Helen]

I thought that too, I just didn't want to be the first one to say it!

[slimboyfatz33]

Ooops !!! There is a little Plagarism going on there

**Off topic , but does anyone know where i get the badge for 'website of the month' , i wouldn't mind popping it onto my site.

[Rob]

You'll need to contact Ben for the badge

[Helen]

You may be able to save image as....

Then load it up. Worth a try, but someone will probably be able to tell you how to do it properly

[Dizi]

@pablomolinari I will have a look into this for you and see what is going on, thanks for informing us of this

@slimboyfatz33 you will have to contact Ben as he is the one who deals with it, I can't see it being too much of a problem as you would be using it to not just advertise your skills but the forum, but its best to be safe