: How do I check the website design clones? Let's say a I have a corporate web-site. I can imagine that it would be pretty easy to download my HTML, CSS and JS files, change texts and images

@Candy875

I'm not sure if this question belongs to this forum, but since this topic has been bothering me for a long time I'll try to provide some answer anyways.

In short: Why bother? Your question is probably as old as creative work, the creative process itself. As long as there is original art work, people will copy it – if they like it. This has happened before with fine art, music, design, fashion, … People have always been quoting and copying other people's original ideas – and after my opinion that is an important part of the creative process. That's exactly how the creative field works. And now of course the same also happens to webdesign.

The big difference to other creative fields you also pointed out is, that nowadays people can just dl your css, literally copy it – and they instantly have your original design formular. But a) no serious designer will probably do just that – there is way too many free wordpress themes and templates etc. out there. I would consider the effort of stealing and then modifying other people's css files way too time consuming.

And on the other hand; how/ why did you come up with the ideas you came up with? Maybe you yourself saw some other design you liked and did your own interpretation of that?

Round-up: try not to bother too much about other people copying your design. You also probably wouldn't want somebody to claim that your design grew on her/his ideas. Instead you may try to feel flattered and spend your time making new, original art work instead of hunting down 'thieves'.

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