What would you do if you wanted a nice loooking blog but was afraid you wouldn't make it to the beach this weekend?
Well, if you're anything like Eric Ness, you'd simply download this sites stylesheet, leaving youself plenty of time to grab your bucket and spade and head for the beach.
Tut tut Eric. Go to the back of the class.
Posted at September 1, 2003 1:34 AM
On one hand you don’t want to stop people looking at your CSS and source code, as thats how folks learn (it’s certainly how I learnt), but the wholesale swiping of stylesheets is the work of a workshy fop.
I ‘ve seen this happen a lot recently, and it always seems to be done by people who don’t understand what they’ve stolen. They start adding FONT tags and all sorts of crap…
Seems as though he’s gotten the message. He is apologizing for borrowing from your site. I guess he planned to give it back.
why you would bother to steal a brilliant style sheet and pump out a very very ordinary crap design with it …
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simon said on September 1, 2003 3:03 AM
okay .. now stealing your style sheet is one thing … tut tut tut nuaghty fool he is … but what i dont understand is .. why you would bother to steal a brilliant style sheet and pump out a very very ordinary crap design with it …
I think the this guys header says it all ” OMG STFU !!!!” i mean really kid really kid … go home …