In another part of the globe, Mr. X, stakeholder in Giganticorp, Inc., decides his company needs a web presence. His company hires a “talented” designer (or uses someone in-house) to design said web site. As the new site is completed, everyone in the company oohs and aahhs at the awesome design that has been produced. The site goes live on Monday morning.

Meanwhile, across the ocean, a successful and productive web designer wakes up and decides to check his referrer logs. Wait—where is this link coming from? As he opens the referring site in his browser, his cup of coffee falls to the floor—along with his jaw—as his eyes behold Giganticorp’s new web site. “Wow…that’s my site!”, he exclaims.

What do we do when your hard work is pilfered by some no good designer trying to either make a quick buck without working or is just too lazy to come up with his own idea?

Here are the sites in question…
The ripoff
The original

I have used several web design applicaitons throughout the years, beginning with hand-coded HTML back in 1996, to Dreamweaver 1.0 through MX, the freeware app Smultron, and finally settling down with the excellent skEdit last year. All of them have had good point and bad points, but are effective coding tools. Lately, I have used Transmit for all my FTP duties. Together they are a good one-two punch in my daily workflow.

Now the good folks at Panic Software have unveiled a beautiful new app that aims to make the life of any web designer/developer easier and more fun. It’s called Coda and it comes with the prettiest UI I’ve seen in a while. I downloaded the demo and have been using it for a day now and have to say that it seems pretty solid. Give it a try and let us know what you think!

Emergy-C, The Low Wattage Palette

It’s great, but I wonder how many different ways this palette can be used before it gets stale…