mt styles
Or, if you want to be really unimaginative, view the source of a blog you like and copy its stylesheet for your own blog. Here’s how:
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... Once you’ve got the look you want, you can fudge the HTML code and customize your brand-new blog. Just don’t copy my blog.
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... Once you’ve got the look you want, you can fudge the HTML code and customize your brand-new blog. Just don’t copy my blog.
Well that’s nice and all, I wouldn’t condone that, but 
she’s using a Blogstyles stylesheet on her blog.
[Seen on MT News]
Comments
Shouldn’t she be giving blogstyles credit? I mean, if nothing else...
Posted by: denise | May 17, 2003 10:37 PM
I totally agree with Denise. That way of thinking may have been fine at one time, but things have changed. Haven’t they? Or maybe I’m just being too strict.
Posted by: Marie | May 17, 2003 10:50 PM
I think that anybody who has spent more than an hour on their design would agree that they don’t think that "stealing" a stylesheet in that way is right. I have had it happen to me before, where people have actually linked directly to the stylesheet on my site, and I’ve done what I could to stop that from happening. I work HARD on my designs, and would rather have them stay HERE!
Denise, I’d definitely like it if she was linking blogstyles, but apparently, she didn’t feel that was important.
Posted by: kristine | May 17, 2003 11:18 PM
I don’t understand that. When I was learning HTML, I was always viewing and copying source - parts of it. I was constantly taking code apart and putting it back together again; but I don’t remember ever taking entire pages and making them my own. I suppose I may have, at first, before I knew better. But... Grr. Besides, stealing someone’s stylesheet is a recipe for disaster; I rarely use the "standard MT" classes and IDs. Someone with some savvy could use mine as a guide, which I’d be thrilled to see them do, for learning, but just plugging it into their site would not work.
Ok, I’m babbling. Stopping now.
Posted by: Jennifer | May 18, 2003 05:00 AM
I’ve had someone steal my stylesheet before too, and I didn’t like it one bit. It took me hours and hours to come up with the exact color scheme I had, to be different than everyone else. Then someone just came along, viewed my stylesheet and took it... That ticked me off.
The fact that TechTV is actually *recommending* people do this, as an acceptable practice... That’s just wrong. I think I may write them a letter.
Take bits and pieces? Fine. Look at it? Fine. Steal the whole damn thing? Grrr...
Thanks for the info chickie. I think I shall be blogging this too.
Posted by: Melissa | May 18, 2003 06:35 AM
"Steal, Steal, Steal"
Gee, does it make it better if that’s what you admit you’re doing? NO! Steal my code and I’ll go carnival freak crazy! No stealing!
Time to finish my long post on Creative Commons and copyright. Hopefully I’ll find time tonight.
Posted by: Christine | May 18, 2003 02:03 PM
Geesh! Like there aren’t enough genuine Linkware sites out there? Go ahead and take my style sheet to learn from, but don’t steal my stuff. And that was really irresponsible of her to suggest.
Posted by: Zuly | May 18, 2003 06:39 PM
absolutely unacceptable. what a freak show. and to use blogstyles sheets all you ask is for there to be a link back. and she couldn’t even do that. argh.
Posted by: jane | May 18, 2003 09:14 PM
I don’t remember this being in the original article:
Note: Stealing stuff pisses people off. I think these tips are a great way to understand the MT engine better, and I encourage you to get in there and start tweaking. But if you really want to rip off something that you’ve seen, you ought to ask the site’s owner first. Ok?
And now she has a link to Blogstyles. Glad to see that some things were changed!
Posted by: denise | May 19, 2003 03:06 PM