Jinan University Steals Cornell University’s Web Design
Jinan University (暨南大学) has a new redesigned website that is identical in appearance to Cornell University’s. Check out the comparison screenshots below, and the electronic plagiarism will be easily apparent to the naked eye:
Jinan University home page
Cornell University home page
From what I can find about it online, Jinan University is a small liberal arts college in China, equivalent to a third-tier, mediocre school here in the US. That they have completely ripped off Cornell’s beautiful web design for their own homepage is not particularly surprising in light of the lowly status 暨南大学.
The actual copying is incidental, as Jinan has copied design elements by style, and missing many of the subtler details of the Cornell site. Their images are blurry, aliased, and with halos. Their menu links are cramped and undistinguished; they have no rollover elements. Even their main content doesn’t lay out well on the page, sliding this way or that. So the only question left is why would a third rate school do a poor copy Cornell’s design for their English pages? It just doesn’t make sense, especially as the Jinan Chinese pages are in their own style.
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