# Is this cheating?
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-this-cheating/57332
**Category:** design
**Created:** [July 12, 2004, 1:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-this-cheating/57332 "2004-07-12T13:27:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@FlashFish](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/FlashFish)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2004, 1:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-this-cheating/57332/1 "2004-07-12T13:27:54Z")
This is a main page of my portfolio v2 that i’m about to launch. I imagined the letters to stick to the mouse on rollover, and searched flash kit for a starting point. But, i found nearly exactly what i was looking for and it needed only a little bit of tweeking. Do you guys think this is a recognisable trick that i’ve stolen, or have i just made use of open source? Coz if i hadnt have found it, i would have just created it myself to make it virtually identical! I plan to credit the code in the site if i stick with it. What do u think? Thanks in advance.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2004, 1:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-this-cheating/57332/2 "2004-07-12T13:28:59Z")
Goddam it, ive done it again. [http://www.jamescorcoran.co.uk](http://www.jamescorcoran.co.uk)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2004, 1:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-this-cheating/57332/3 "2004-07-12T13:39:03Z")
Are you asking if its reasonable to use someone else’s source for your own project? Well I don’t see a problem with using the same code to achieve certain effects (especially if thats the easiest way to do it), but I would never think it’s acceptable to just copy the design.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2004, 1:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-this-cheating/57332/4 "2004-07-12T13:40:09Z")
it’s a pain to navigate; change it to something else…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2004, 1:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-this-cheating/57332/5 "2004-07-12T13:51:51Z")
I agree, there was no actual design in the thing i copied, just code to make somethin stick to the mouse. Thats all i’ve, uhm, borrowed. mlk, how do you mean? I was thinking that it might not be too obvious to find the buttons and i may put up an alternative nav bar aswell… is that what u mean? I’ll sort all that when i put the whole thing up for cc.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2004, 2:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-this-cheating/57332/6 "2004-07-12T14:09:17Z")
no it isn’t cheating, just using tutorials you found.
but the navigation is a bit… unintuitive. at least make the letters used for navigation another colour or put an arrow under them or sumthin…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2004, 2:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-this-cheating/57332/7 "2004-07-12T14:19:29Z")
Cheers all. I knew thatd be a problem… i’ll get to it.