Recreating Credit Suisse WebDesign

[dima777]

Hello!

Maybe you can help me with the following?

I was wondering if you think it can be possible to easily recreate the design of a few of the Credit Suisse pages:

https://www.credit-suisse.com/uk/privatebanking/en/index.jsp
https://www.credit-suisse.com/governance/en/index.jsp
https://www.credit-suisse.com/uk/privatebanking/bank/en/index.jsp


These pages look strikingly similar to Deutche Bank pages (http://www.db.com/index_e.htm or http://www.db.com/csr/en/social_investments.htm) so I think they will not mind:).

I am new to web design and thought what you think of this? Do you think it can be easily done? I think this might be a matter of copying their page and slightly reformatting the styles and removing unnecessary code? Or you think it is better to design this from scratch? I personally adore the simplicity of the layout of credit Suisse pages (eg. https://www.credit-suisse.com/uk/privatebanking/bank/en/index.jsp).

Thank you for your time,

Dave

[traq]

I am new to web design and thought what you think of this? Do you think it can be easily done? I think this might be a matter of copying their page and slightly reformatting the styles and removing unnecessary code? Or you think it is better to design this from scratch?

You should make them yourself rather than copying their source code. Learn about css. If you'd rather not, search for free website templates - there's nothing particularly special about those designs.

[djr33]

Getting inspiration from other sites is fine. Copying them isn't just questionable, it's illegal. Realistically it's possible that you might not get in trouble, but web design code (eg, HTML) is intellectual property just like anything else, like a book or music. So unless it's just for fun (in which case the worst that would happen is you'd be asked to take the site down), you might actually get in serious financial trouble, especially if this is for a business.

Anyway, as traq said, those designs aren't too complicated and you can probably recreate something similar without too much trouble.

In fact, copying code can make it more difficult because you need to not only understand everything in it, but also the style of the web designer who made it. Modifying code is often more difficult for that reason (even open source or freely available third party code). And unless you really took it apart and put it back together (so why not just rewrite it?), you'd probably end up with some extra code that you don't need, so it wouldn't be optimized if that matters to you.


(Although this is probably unrealistic, you could always ask the company if you could use their design. There's no reason you can't share the code, but you'd need permission.)

[dima777]

I need this design very much…not because it is the design of a leading bank or other reason – there are actually quite interesting sites design-wise which are far from the banking sector. I need this design because it perfectly fits into the existing html based static content scheme…..

I would happily create this one on my own but I have no skill whatsoever at crafting such designs…..you know I browsed hundreds of the expensive and not so templates on the Themeforest and the like and did not see anything with equal simplicity and elegance……

In light of this I was wondering if there is someone who would be generous enough to create one or two pages which wholly emulate the layout of the following pages….

https://www. credit-suisse. com/uk/privatebanking/bank/en/index.jsp

and

https://www. credit-suisse. com/uk/privatebanking/en/index.jsp


Thanks a lot!)

[traq]

If you decide to try doing this yourself, and you run into problems, I'm sure you'll be able to find help solving them.

If you're asking for someone to do it for you, you shouldn't expect anyone to do so for free - there's more to it than you may realize. You might post in the Paid Help (http://www.dynamicdrive.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=30) forum.

[djr33]

I also want to repeat what I said earlier: copying a website is illegal. If you just use it for inspiration (ideas, not copying all of it, etc), then that's ok, but you can't "copy" it.