Hi everyone, I wanted to write my first post to just say hi and came across this one, well I thought just gotta add to it. My husband is a designer and developer, he makes sites and hosts and deals with domain registrations. He says that it is quite usual for a developer to also purchase the domain as for hosting a site is sometimes not possible if a domain is registered with another company. He is quoting for this BTW. As for theft of content, it is a sign that others can’t better what you have already, it is unethical and a bad practice for a site as duplicate content can be found with ease by search engines and therefor effect your ranking on them. But it is not illegal. My husband has many pages from his sites ripped off also his images as well, hence now he wont post any without a watermark, if you want to you can use <-- quote marks to prevent HTML copy but this is easy to get around, You did the right thing, you found out and asked for and got (surprised) a public apology. What has happened to the so called design company? One person did say that design was not important but that only the text was, sorry don't agree with that, just look at this site. If it was not well designed you wouldn't get the visitors, and you would not be able to navigate your way around. He did say though that the configuration needs tweeking to remove some of the input fields where they are not needed.??
Well it would seem that apart from doing his typing this has been a message from him, so I will write my own again soon. PP
