Hey Kat,

I'm a huge fan of creative and original websites, but it often comes down to money and skills...

In varsity my budget was more focused on beer than on marketing spend.

So I used some free templates, tweaked the css, applied seo, added new images and got cheap hosting... some of them turned out to be extremely profitable with an outlay of next to nothing.

The templates were also a winner since I'm a marketer, not a coder.

Posted by Mike Metelerkamp on 2008/11/04

Crazy Egg are a pretty reputable company doing some kick ass things with heat maps etc, whereas 'ol Gridhost with its typo's and grammer errors, I wouldn't even poke them with a stick!

So I bet its more of Gridhost stealing than these 2 companies using the same free web template.

(Hopefully this comments passes Quirk's crap filer *cough* 503 error *cough* @Robstokes ;) )

Posted by JBagley on 2008/11/04

@Mike Thanks for your comment! When there is no other option templates do seem to be a good call.. but larger and growing brands couldn't get away with this.

@JBagley It does look like they copied the site. Not cool.

Posted by Kat on 2008/11/04

It always blows my mind when I see things like this. People really do have balls of steel to try and get away with something like this.

After having a closer look and going through some of Crazy Egg's products, I'm pretty damn sure that this is not a free template. The same design technique/look and feel follows through.

Nice try Gridhost!

Posted by Grant on 2008/11/04