Hi, many people steal design and css files of site. i was wonding how to stop them from downloading template (running through template engin) or css files.
Are you serious ? If you want that the browsers of the visitors of your site use a template and a css, they obviously need to download them. There are technical tricks to make them hard to re-use for small children, but not for web professionnals. Jean-Luc
i'd have to say no as well. i've taken looks at microsoft's CSS to figure out how they've done stuff.
Well not really, but you could scramble/encrypt your code to help prevent the copying of your work, however some people have tools to unscramble it, some not all. May be worth it if you're very concerned.
A browser needs to download it to render using it. If a browser can download it, people can also get to it. So there is no way to prevent it and still actually use it for your visitors.
Yup, that's why I said it's unpractical, except for designers who can't be bothered with SEO. So in other words, don't worry too much trying to prevent css theft.
I wouldn't worry about it. The reality is any smart css designer can just recreate your site layout within a couple of days max.
Usually all you need to do is take a look at your temporary internet cache and it is there (downloaded).
OK, long version: anyone can learn how to make a site that looks like yours by looking at the sites you learned from. If they choose to learn from yours, that means they liked it. If you're not prepared to share what you've learned, what are you doing in this forum?