When Does Inspiration Become Plagiarism With Website Design? Why The Webflail Website Is About To Change
1 Article, 1 Podcast, 3 Inspirational Websites, 3 Webflow Jobs. Let's do this!
Hey Webflailers - it’s Jack!
Food for thought this week:
Try and bring value to every single interaction you have with other people.
Whoever you are talking to, if you try and help them get closer to what they want in life, they will not only appreciate you but also be more likely to want to help you in the future!
I first heard about this concept last year and I have been amazed how this has changed my life.
I’m not the best webflower (far from it) and I am far away from where I want to be BUT I am in no doubt that by proactively trying to help others and provide value has helped me to get to where I am in my career.
Ok, let’s get in to this week’s roundup.
When Does Inspiration Become Plagiarism With Website Design? Why The Webflail Website Is About To Change
Last week, the founder of SomeFolk reached out to me telling me that the Webflail website was plagiarised.
A lot of us are looking at other websites to find inspiration for our own designs. We are constantly taking references from other work. But when does that turn in to plagiarism?
What happens if you are accused of plagiarism?
Where can you find sources of inspiration outside the internet?
Read the article to find out what happened, why and what I’ve learnt from it👇
How To Hire Webflowers To Build An Agency | With Julian Kreth
For Episode 12, my guest is my guest is Julian Kreth, founder of Agentur 201720, a data driven advertising agency based in Germany.
My favourite part of this episode is about the hiring process. The hiring process is something that we haven’t talked about a lot in Webflail so far despite the fact that it seems to plague a lot of freelancers trying to transition to agency owners. Julian’s process for hiring is enlightening not just for aspiring agency owners but freelancer’s too - by ensuring that hiring process is quite long with over 7 steps, it ensures it is a good fit for the candidate and the agency.I hope you get as much out of this episode as I did!
The 3 failures we talk about in this episode are:
1) MONEY MANAGEMENT - Founding an event management company that failed after 1 event and what this taught Julian about money and expectations with his agency
2) HANDLING CLIENTS - Giving unlimited reviews to first website clients causing endless frustration
3) HIRING PROCESS - Hiring 6 of the wrong employees in our first year of the agency before working out a hiring process that worked
3 Inspirational Websites
1) Proof
Clean, tonnes of white space, interesting font choices. Noice.
2) Icon
Fascinating use of multimedia visuals - 3D shapes, pictures and videos. Feel like this type of website might become standard for Tik Tok stars!
3) The Pleasure Pursuit
Fascinating use of multimedia visuals - 3D shapes, pictures and videos. Feel like this type of website might become standard for Tik Tok stars!
3 Webflow Jobs
Webflow Developer at Growably
Webflow Developer at Backoffice Abroad
Webflow Designer/Developer at Frank
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