Hi a question about copying a web site design?

[Nefrit]

Hi I am a amatuer web designer working in web design company and I was wondering if you surf the web , you visit sites and like their design and set up are you allow to built a site of your own copying the other web sites design. I don't mean copying exactly pixel for pixel / code for code but very close different colors and minor changes to design.. is this legal or does it break some standard of web designs?
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[DanielJay]

Websites can be inspired by other websites but not copied. For many it is hard to come up with "original" web designs but since there are so many websites created it is difficult to do. What i like to do is take ideas of navigation from one website, header ideas from another, content layouts from another. Then find a way to piece it all together without viewing the source of the inspired websites.

Hope this helps