SWL’s Blog Is Growing Up! … Dear Mr. N. Rip
So after returning from an exhausting day of dealing with clients on Tuesday night, I come home to find an email from a user who submitted a comment through the SWL Contact Us page. SCHWEET (I’m thinking)!
I’ve come to understand that when you can check off a resident jerk visiting your site, then you’ve definitely gotten bigger and grown substantially, and I have since learned that such internet users are termed “drive-by zealots” c/o a post I stumbled upon at Dooce.com . Thus, it is with great pleasure that I introduce to you “Mr. N. Rip” who was so bold as to say:
Hi… nice f***ing RIP OFF of Fantasy Interfaces website…. jesus for real did you think you could get away with it?
We recommend removing your site within the next two days or it will be publically posted as a RIP and dealt with accordingly.
all the best.
Well then, now that I have your attention. Not only was I shocked, because I actually emulated the design from a template website and thought, I could do the underlying concept better and without all of the template-esque qualities of what you find in a web template, but I have NEVER ACTUALLY BEEN to the Fantasy Interfaces website!!!
Perhaps the only thing positive from this whole episode, is that I did actually visit the website, and quite frankly, IT IS ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS! As a designer remarking on other designers work, despite being a bit bandwidth heavy (but the title of the page warns you), the precision and minutae of the overall presentation is gorgeous and, quite frankly, just damn stunning. I wish I had even the slightest inkling of how to marry Flash with video with lustrous 3D and more in such a persuasive and artistic manner, but quite frankly I don’t. Photoshop, Illustrator, BBedit, Dreamweaver, HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, CSS and other little ditties are where my specialty is. This thing called the internet is ever changing and I’m ever learning and absorbing, as best as I can, all it has to offer.
As for Mr. N. Rip, you are not worth my time nor the space on this post, but if I have your attention, I might as well take this opportunity to tell you, that you are a repugnant asshole and nothing more than a boil on the ass of society. If you feel so free with your words, please feel free to email me and I’ll get back you with more thoughts on the kind of people that have your manner of thinking.
Lastly, and with that being said, I’ve modified the SWL site because I don’t enjoy copying other people’s work and nor do I enjoy having my own copied without my permission and seeing that an idiot such as the aforementioned Mr. R exists, I’ve trimmed the CSS and updated the graphics ahead of the plan I’ve set, but what can you do but shrug and give the finger?
