Hi! I am building website (directory) and I am wondering I am not the first one to build directory with this subject. I visited other websites with same subject and more or less they all offer the same, but design is different. I am not taking anybody's costumers, and I would like to know how close your design (background, images...etc) can be to other website and still be legal. Thank you very much! Toni
Well, if you pretty much create a directory site and using an existing script, there is only so much you can do to look different from someone else especially if you use some stock template designs. For a niche directory, the categories that you have may pretty much be the same as the rest in that niche. I would think that as long as you do not have a similar sounding domain name or pretend to be someone else you should do fine.