webmaster help?
 

hello every one. Im new at web design. Actually it was forced upon me by budget reasons. so its been a slow learning process but my web sites are looking slightly more polished. my newest latest proyect is more demanding, and therefore I want to acomplish several things with it. Im asking help with two things:

• how do I trully protect from copy/paste my contents? I found and use HTML codes to dissable the right click. But you can still select and copy if you scroll down while left clicking.
• I would like a personalized giff animation, can I ask a freelancer designer for this?

thanks

here are some of my sites:
www.selvamaya.com my first...
www.akumalart.com slightly more polish than my first....
www.cancunkenshi.com where I train......
www.xerxez.com my father's art work site....
www.akumalguide.com my newest latest project....

If they are static I don't think you can fully protect your images from download, as the act of viewing them in a browser is in itself an act of downloading them.
For images I want to "protect", I watermark them and/or place a transparent flag on them.

indeeed , I could do that...! watermark on images.

ok one down, one to go....!

thanks

nice work. Your father's work is very good.

Unless you want to piss off a large number of visitors, then do not try to protect your code. Pages with right-click protection tend to play bad with anyone who uses mouse gestures (if you haven't tried it, you are missing something...) and I personally avoid all such sites.
Also, there really is no reason to prevent anyone to see your code, since that code will really not be that special anyway. Not being offensive here, but I mean, when not even Google hides the code in Google mail, which is really advanced AJAX stuff, then why would anyone else need to?

Watermarking images to prevent image theft is on the other hand a very good solution. Go for that option. http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/smile.gif

Don't bother trying to protect your code, if the user isn't a braindead monkey they'll get it, and a lot of that anti-right click stuff tends to annoy people. As far as images go, you could put a watermark on your images but if the person on the other side really wants to I've seen my little brother take em off via photoshop while he was bored...

Good stuff. I'm not all that hot a web designer but I have helped get a couple of things up and running in my time, so bearing that in mind here's some thoughts you should consider before playing around with gifs.

• Are you hand-coding these sites or using some kind of editor? A little flick through your code says you're using some kind of Yahoo Pagebuilder or something. Starting out, you want to be hand-coding the html.
• In this day and age, tables are a no-no. You should be using CSS for layout. CSS is basically (or at least should be) a separate file that handles the way your page looks from the layout to colours, images and font style. Google it and you will get plenty of tutorials. Tables should only be used for actually displaying tables in your pages. This will take a lot of work out of writing html yourself, and make it easy to apply the same look to your entire site.

To give you an example of what CSS can do, this is my blog (currently a work in progress) with and without it switched on.

• Are you actually creating each page on your sites? That looks like a hell of a lot of work. You could skip all that with something called server side includes, which basically creates your page on the fly from smaller parts, depending on what the user wants to see. There are a number of ways to achieve this, PHP was what I used most of the time to put sites together. You don't need to learn all of PHP to work it, just look up 'PHP includes' and you'll get what you need.
• Give in to wordpress. You know it makes sense.

Hope this helps.

For your animated gifs, there are a number of programs you can use to make them yourself, google will help.

Even if you do copy protect your images anyone can still 'screen grab' them so what's the point?

You could ask a freelance designer for an animated .gif, but the nature of freelancing is that they get paid to do it. Your better giving it a shot yourself and at least you then come away with some skills and experience from the process.

Thank you every one for your input.

• will put water mark on images , rather than messing with code restrictions.
• will try out the giff animation myself

thanks again

I'll let him know..

thanks