Man you're right Ish! lol_at_template.
I just checked out the Aeon template. I opened the other one too.. and
side by side, i'm switching between them.
Great fun!
Dhiruj
On 24/05/2015 18:08, Loganaden Velvindron wrote:
> On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Ish Sookun <ish_at_hacklog.in> wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> Did anyone from this mailing list attend the WebCup 2015 as a participant or
>> out of curiosity? I'd like to know if there was anything mentioned regarding
>> the use of off-the-shelf templates for this competition.
>>
>> I had a look at http://ynot-team.tk. The final work is a messed up version
>> of Aeon[1] Joomla Template.
>>
>> Then I had a look at Blue Dragons[2] and instantly thought they could be a
>> team of young students. Indeed, they appear to be from Université des
>> Mascareignes. Okay, let's admit that their website look is amateur,
>> nostalgic, contains Flash :P etc etc etc. But this is what is taught to
>> students at university level and it is what they applied when asked to
>> design a website.
>>
>> On the other hand, Ynot Team might have spent $48 to buy a Joomla theme and
>> spend 24 hours of human time to mess it up.
>>
>> My comments might appear harsh but let us not forget that every year it is
>> the same story about WordPress, Joomla templating.
>>
>> Does it take to be a genius to produce 5 beautiful HTML pages with some nice
>> JavaScript in 24 hours rather than copying others work and editing texts?
>>
>> Ynot team has replaced the copyright of Dan Partac[3] by their own. I doubt
>> if they contacted the latter to have his permission. Does WebCup 2015 know
>> if this copyright infringement?
>>
> Stripping a license from a an existing piece of work is definitely a
> bad thing, and this does not help to improve the country's image.
>
>
>> I visited maurice.webcup.fr and it redirected to
>> http://www.webcup.fr/wp-signup.php?new=mauice.webcup.fr. See the typo. The
>> page is very slow. Then I clicked on "contact" to get an email address,
>> waited more than 2 minutes in front of a blank page and got bored.
>>
>> [1] http://www.pcadviser.ro/themeforest/?theme=aeon
>> [2] http://bluedragon.maurice.2015.webcup.fr/test1/test1.php
>> [3] http://themeforest.net/user/dnp_theme?ref=dnp_theme
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> --
>> Ish Sookun
>>
>> - Geek by birth, Linux by choice.
>> - I blog at HACKLOG.in.
>>
>> https://twitter.com/IshSookun ^^ Do you tweet?
>
>
Received on Sun May 24 2015 - 16:10:06 PST