One of the items on the Zephyros Inc. to-do list as we work to enhance our virtually non-existant online presence is the construction of a more robust company Web site. We took the first tiny step down that path last week, uploading a new "home" page for our site, http://www.zephyrosinc.com/.
While we have designed and maintained Web sites for a variety of entities in the Lehigh Valley and beyond over the last decade, we have always been tripped up by the best design for the Zephyros Web site and how to most appropriately represent ourselves on the Internet. Fearing to take a mistep in this area, for a long time we haven't moved.
That changed last week, but I would be lying if I said giving birth to that single page was easy. Still hung up on the design-side of things, we began our construction efforts with a Web template we found through http://opensourcetemplates.org/. The template we selected was created by http://Studio7designs.com/. We changed the code and the graphics, we took care of browser incompatibilities, and fixed code bugs to make the template fit our creative vision.We provided a credit line to both organizations in the footer of our new page.
In sharing free Web templates, OpenSource invokes the Creative Commons Public License (CCPL) as a means of protecting its work. Our reading of the CCPL is that "you can use our stuff and change it as much as you like, but you still have to give us credit." So, that's what we did.
On some levels we "get" it, and on some levels, quite honestly, we're not sure. If an author writes a story about a shark, is he obligated to give credit to Jaws creator, the late Peter Benchley?
We would welcome any thoughts on this subject...
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