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Posted by Jonathan Fernandes
Jonathan Fernandes
Courses Plus Student 22,784 Points

Terms & Conditions, and properly Attributing Work on a Website

Hello everyone!

My question is more of a legal/website development question.

I just made a website and on the website I used some animation code as well as some photos from pixabay (which both were advertised under a free license).

Question one, where and how do I appropriately give credit to the people who provided this stuff for me to create the website.

Second question, I noticed I am missing a "terms and conditions" section. Since I made this website for somebody's business, I am trying to make sure that I am not liable for how they might end up using the site. So where would I go to draft a terms and conditions page?

Thanks in advance for any help you all can provide to help me answer my questions!

2 Answers

Jennifer Morkunas
Jennifer Morkunas
20,037 Points

Of course this is no substitute for legal advice, but you can google "terms and conditions for website" and find templates to help with a good basis for your website. It takes just a little while to skim through a template and edit out the parts that aren't relevant for you. You could also try looking at what other designers use on their websites and adjust it for your own. No need to reinvent the wheel when there's already so many terms and conditions pages out there. That is what I did for my website.

John Steer-Fowler
PLUS
John Steer-Fowler
Courses Plus Student 11,734 Points
John Steer-Fowler
John Steer-Fowler
Courses Plus Student 11,734 Points

I can only really help answer your question here regarding using code that is free to use.

What I do, is usually comment out a small thank you to whoever supplied the code snippet etc.

For example,

<!-- Thank you to Jonathan Fernandes for his code which can be found at www.teamtreehouse.com  -->
<h1>Hello World!</h1>
<h2>Treehouse provides such a great environment for learning...</h2>

Therefore, for developers/designers who find something they like on your site, they will inspect the source code for your site and see the comment.

With the Terms and Conditions, I have never had to do that before.