Why are designer’s pass­word pro­tect­ing files they label FREE Resources for graphic design­ers?

This is very frus­trat­ing for Graphic artist, web design­ers, or blog­gers look­ing to get some great resources for their designs. I want to per­son­ally send a mes­sage to those who link up their down­loads, we are not going to click on your links any­more than we would if you hadn’t hid your down­load link. So don’t post free resources for graphic designer if you don’t plan on fol­low­ing through with it. So what can design­ers do about these phony sites that are not fol­low­ing through with what they are pro­mot­ing? Well for starters you could blog about them in a neg­a­tive way as I’m doing so.

But if you want direct action report these sites to the major search engines. Another thing that irri­tates the hell out of me are sites that hide mali­cious con­tent or ads in their down­load links, and again you don’t get Free graphic design resources you get a solic­i­ta­tion or a pop up add, these sites are so scripted it some­times causes you’re com­puter to crash. If you hate sites like these as I do them you should down­load Fire­fox and install the plug-in No SCRIPTS. This will kill all ads and scripts so you will no longer be forced to look at trash ads. If you want to check what you are down­load­ing before you actu­ally down­load it – high­light the text (right click) then save as target.

A win­dow should pop up you can see the file ext, if it’s a web page exten­sion than it’s not the actu­ally file it’s a redi­rect. This is an evil way of deep link­ing, you click the down­load but­ton – it takes you to another page that says down­load– if you click it again you are led to yet another page, same thing– the sad part is; you help the site owner link deep –but you don’t get any down­loads, free down­loads is just the bait to reel you in. These site own­ers have no pride in their con­tent and should be exposed for what they are “a fraud”. I am start­ing a list of these sites so that as a design com­mu­nity we can black list them once and for all. Every site owner has an oblig­a­tion to its users, Cheat­ing users by lying and post­ing fraud­u­lent arti­cles, and down­loads is wrong. We always offer 100% free con­tent and all of our down­loads are 100% acces­si­ble. So if you need a good resource web­site for graphic design, or web design mate­ri­als please join our community.

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