Inserting Pictures

[Nancee]

Hi all! Not sure if I got to the right message board or
not. I am doing a website for a gymnastics club and
inserting pictures of the gymnasts and one of the parents
wants her kids pictures "protected" so that people can't
copy or print them out. I can't find anything in my
FP2000 manual or online that suggests that I can do
that. Can I do that?

 

[Tom Pepper Willett]

Nancee: This topic is brought up several times per day.
The bottom line is, there really is nothing you can do.
The pictures are automatically downloaded into the
visitor's browser cache (temporary internet files) and
they have complete access to them.

Tom Pepper Willett
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage

 

[E. T. Culling]

Please read many previous posts.
ETC

 

[Jack Brewster]

Nancee,

The short answer is that there is no way to prevent the files from being
saved by visitors. This question gets asked several times a week and as
Eleanor suggested, if you want to know the how and why, you should look for
previous threads on this topic.

 

[Andrew Murray]

Hi all! Not sure if I got to the right message board or
not. I am doing a website for a gymnastics club and
inserting pictures of the gymnasts and one of the parents
wants her kids pictures "protected" so that people can't
copy or print them out. I can't find anything in my
FP2000 manual or online that suggests that I can do
that. Can I do that?

There's not much you can do, because whenever you view a site, it downloads the
whole site (including all images) first. (That's what you 'web cache' and
"temporary internet files" are that accumulate on your Hard Disk.

The "no right click" scripts (which pops-up a sub-menu with copy and paste
commands in your browser) around on the web can be compromised and worked around
by someone who knows how, there aren't many alternatives.

Maybe one thing you can do, put the pages with the photos in a password protected
directory (using htaccess on UNIX servers), then give ONLY the parents of the
kids in the gym club password access - so the rest of the world can't view them.
That is the only thing I can think of.....to limit the intended viewers to the
parents of the kids.

Search for "htaccess" on Google and you'll find out how to do a simple password
protection (but fairly secure I believe)....otherwise ask your ISP for
suggestions.