Thread: restrict visitors to download style.css

when a website loads, many sites have a separate css file to load styles on their site. You can view it directly if you know where the file is OR you can download web developer tools for firefox. Internet Explorer has one too. I prefer the firefox one and there are options for things like showing css, disabling css, disabling javascript, etc. It helps too with debugging div tags and table layouts. Anyway, that is how you do it. It's just like viewing the source (html) of a webpage. Noone can change it, but they can see your code

If ur rival copy ur heavily modified style file how do u feel ?

That's a fair point.

I've been doing web design for a while now and I've never heard of a way to 'block it'. I haven't done it in a long time but Microsoft FrontPage had this option to download a whole website and it worked decently. But that was back websites were more straight html and a css. You just have to accept it and move on. They might be able to copy your styles, but they can't copy your whole CMS, jsut the look, so someone isn't going to steal your website. these days people can find out how to do any styles on the internet, taking yours will jsut make them go a little faster. Oh and if it is that heavily modified, I myself would be better off starting from scratch because chances are, it won't work right somehow and it would take a while just to figure it out and attempt to correct my issues.

mr_green is correct...

See: Comprehensive guide to .htaccess- Preventing hot linking of images and other file types (one of the many articles to prevent "hotlinking")

But all they have to do is go to your site and view css in any of the newer browsers anyway...

yes that will jsut keep them from directly linking to your css from their site which i don't see why anyone would do that. if i changed my css then someone else's site would change. you can't keep them from viewing your css.

what you can do is using wp-minify, it will make it pretty much unreadable (its a cache plugins)

I don't know how they do it, but have a look at londons air ambulance (hems) roadside intensive care then when the site is loaded, you cannot right click the page, (which is easy to do) but try asking your browser to see the source...!!! Quite an interesting result at my end LOL....

LOL they made a skelton head

Simply combining new CSS with changes to the php files too for renaming divs your competitor will never use your CSS as easy as copy/paste... instead of that he will need to rewrite a lot of CSS, what sometimes it is so boring and better forget about it and HIRE A DEVELOPER/DESIGNER
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