100% protected template?

[Teensweb]

Is it possible to make a template for your site that cannot be copied. I literally mean that whatever methods you imply, except hacking the server and getting direct access to source file the template should not be copyable. According to my experiance, it is not possible. What do you think?

[Anna]

since all browsers have the option to view source I think that there's no way to prevent the template to be copied.

suppose making a flash site would do the trick though, but I doubt that is a good choice at all times.

[Teensweb]

Don't you know anything about flash decompilers, dude?

[akkudreamz]

well anything that the browser can process, can be copied and hacked,
there's nothing perfect, besides design is something that is copied very easily, but i dont think that a copied design is going to help the copier :P

in case you are into making and selling templates, that is a real problem, what you can do is just show a snapshot of the design, and not a demo.
Still the creativity of the designer in making the layout can be made use of just by copying

[Armacci Design]

Yeah, it's literally impossible. Any browser has the ability to view the source, and even having a .swf won't work. I have seen one website that had every page broken up into smaller images dynamically with PHP, so essentially the source was a bunch of img tags. With that, you'd have to download each image, and write a script to assemble the jigsaw puzzle again.

[farscapeone]

Actually there are some tools that encrypt HTML source but as people said before there's nothing that can't be hacked.

You can find one here or just google it to find more.
http://www.designerwiz.com/mf.htm?ht...ncryptHTML.htm

Although it's far from perfect it can stop people that aren't familiar with the subjects (and most of them aren't).

A was talking about coding and not design cos you can always copy the design. There's nothing that can stop anybody from coping the design they can actually see. If you can see it you can copy it (if you are skilled enough).

[zen-r]

Alternatively, make your design so bad that no-one would want to copy it ;)

[idfizbo]

If you can see it you can copy it (if you are skilled enough).

You don't even need skill - just a print screen key and Photoshop.

[Anna]

Don't you know anything about flash decompilers, dude?

I don't even know how to make a flash site to start with... I just know that you can't view source from the browser

[leafypiggy]

Plus, Anna isn't a Guy!

FAIL