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If you're going to brag about your design skills you shouldn't blatantly rip off other artists. http://www.woothemes.com/2009/11/digitalfarm/ http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_C...

Reading your comment I was under the impression they stole someone's design. Looking at your links, there is no resemblance between the two save the dinosaur.

Can you please clarify?

Compare the dinosaurs. The Digital Farm theme seems to contain the famous stomping dinosaur from Dinosaur Comics.

It's the dinosaur; here's where I first saw it [the dinosaur]:

http://www.qwantz.com/index.php

the dinosaur in the linked theme is copied from the t-shirt sold by dinosaur comics. It's pretty straightforward.

Hmm. I get the impression that this was written by a someone who's main activity is designing.

I look at it this way. Form and function go hand in hand. The reason Tumblr is successful is because it's well designed AND it works. Where as Posterous, well, the design just isn't as pretty. It still works though...

If I had to choose though, I'd rather make something that works than something that just looks pretty.

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