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Can I use someone else's site as an example?

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Hello,

As I am starting in web design, I do not have a consolidated portfolio that I can use as an example for prospects. Would it be okay if I linked potential clients to a website not created by myself, if I know I can make something similar?
 
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Lying to your potential clients by passing someone else's work off as your own is frowned upon by most people and not a great way to start off in entrepreneurship.

People respect honesty. Do you really want to gamble your reputation?

How about finding someone you know who could use some help designing their website and do it for free as a way to build your portfolio?
 

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How about you create your own website, and link them to that.... You are in web design after all.

On the other hand I see know problem with linking to a website and saying "Do you like the style of this? I could create something similar"

Never say someone else's work is yours, ever.
 

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On the other hand I see know problem with linking to a website and saying "Do you like the style of this? I could create something similar"
Yeah, this is what I was aiming at. Not to plagiarize.
 
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As I am starting in web design, I do not have a consolidated portfolio that I can use as an example for prospects.
Check out the web design thread by @Fox it'll help you develop some client acquisition strategies. If you like the thread, consider his course as it's pretty much giving you a step by step business in a box from learning to code all the way to closing a sale.
 

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Always be honest, haven't done any websites? Create one for your self. Be willing to give away your time at first, be willing to create something for someone for next to nothing. That will build up your portfolio @Fox has some great threads here you would find helpful
 

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Hello,

As I am starting in web design, I do not have a consolidated portfolio that I can use as an example for prospects. Would it be okay if I linked potential clients to a website not created by myself, if I know I can make something similar?

Define "okay"?

There is no "right" or "wrong" here. Such concepts are arbitrary and any position is impossible to defend on empirical grounds.

Machiavelli once said that "he who tries to be good all of the time is bound to become undone by the men that are not good all of the time."

Does the ends justify the means?
 

EdwardSavage

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Define "okay"?

There is no "right" or "wrong" here. Such concepts are arbitrary and any position is impossible to defend on empirical grounds.

Machiavelli once said that "he who tries to be good all of the time is bound to become undone by the men that are not good all of the time."

Does the ends justify the means?

Ideally, I will try to not directly cite the exemplary as my own.

This will be a one-time strategy.


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“To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”


I think I'll take the pseudo-menace approach this time.
 
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