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I posted this in another thread where it didn't really belong, but for those of you that don't have a website and are interested in designing your own, go check out jalbum. It has free templates on there that you can use to design your webpages and it's free so it doesn't cost you nothing. All you need is a little knowledge on web design. I use it my website and really like it. They have alot to choose from and have some good looking designs.

www.jalbum.net

you can click on the download button on the top and it will show two links. Go to the "Skins" link to see what they have.

Here is probably the best site for buying and selling excellent web templates:

http://themeforest.net?ref=darius9000

Here is my friend's ref link with his templates, he is expert for web design...

http://themeforest.net/user/darius9000/portfolio?ref=darius9000

I'll have to go check all those out. I need to redo my two year old website. I've always used jalbum because of the application software that comes with, it makes it easy for me to use the skin I want and then add it to my web pages. I'm gonna go check out these others.

I haven't had a chance to look at the other sites yet, but jalbum has what they call sins and they are free to download and use with their software. Most of te skins are geared towards photographers. I create the setting for the skin I want on the software that they provide with the skins, then put them into Frontpage and add and change whatever I want to with it, then upload them to the server.

Here is my webpage so you can get an idea of what you can do with it. The skin I used wasthe cameline...I think that's how it is spelled. Anyway don't make fun of my site because I haven't even messed with it in over two years. It will giveyou some idea of what you can do.

www.donnabeeler.net

They have alot of different type "skins" as they call them. When you are on the main page at the top there is a download buttom. There are two links up there. One is for the software itself and the other is to the skins. Thats where you can go and see how these skins look. The site has changed so it's a little harder to navigate now.

Sorry, your images can be "borrowed" from any site, one way or the other.

Did you get that off my website? or somewhere else?
I just went to my website and the only ones I can "save as" are the thumbnails. The main photos in the scroll you can't "save as" only "save link as" or "copy link location" with a right click.
Maybe you know something I don't...can you explain?

Thanks Brandon.....I didn't know that....see I learn something new everyday..

I was able to download your image, not your thumbnail. And, it is not a screen shot. You can grab images quite easily directly through Firefox by digging deep into their Media features and doing a Save As. It is possible to download and save all the file elements, including images, on any web page. Sites that implement a "disable right click" feature only prevent amateurs from stealing images and give a false sense of security.

Unfortunately, image theft via the Internet is a fact of life.

Despite all the programs out there promising to protect your images there is no effective way of preventing image theft. There are programs you can purchase that promise image safety. They say they can protect your images, but include language similar to, "will make image theft NEARLY impossible." They never guarantee 100%. If you are worried that your images might be stolen, don't post them anywhere on the Internet, or slap a big watermark on them (watermarks can be removed with a little photoshop expertise).

If an image is displayed on a screen, a simple screen capture can grab it, and there is absolutely no way for a website to prevent that. Screen shots are not of the highest quality but there are programs that can improve their quality. Technically it is impossible to protect web images from being lifted since most newer browsers first download a copy of the entire website (text and images) from the Internet to the computer's local cache before rendering. With a smidgeon of technical expertise, cache files can be dragged from the computer into a browser window to resurrect content. Images are removed from the computer only when the cache is cleared.

There are tricks that web designers can employ to make it slightly less convenient for the novice to copy images, but with a little investigation on "how to steal a web image" (over 1,420,000 results on Google) it might end up taking five clicks instead of two to grab an image.

Again, some webmasters disable right click on their web pages by adding HTML/CSS/JavaScript protection into the coding of the page so that visitors can't easily access the "Save Image As" command but that trick can be easily defeated by disabling Javascript.

Disabling right mouse click will not stop web theft. A visitor browsing with Firefox can right click elsewhere on the page (I won't tell you exactly where), select page info, click the Media tab, and there is a list of all the images on the web page, complete with a Save As button. There are several Firebox plug-ins that make it even easier to download everything on a web page.

Adding a transparent gif over the top of an image, or embedding images in flash files, does not stop screen capture programs and the saving of entire web pages. An image map can slice your image into pieces but, again, the sliced images can be saved as a whole using any screen capture program (screen shot). All these tricks do is slow the page loads, and create more useless traffic flowing from the server. Implementing them is a waste of time and effort. These methods give image owners a false sense of security, but that's all.

I posted your image not to prove that you were wrong but to make you aware of the possibilities of image theft no matter what a site might promise.

Ha! Not a problem, I know you were not mad. I love sunflowers so chose that image because it made me feel like Spring might be on the way. It's dreary here in the Midwest.

Click on the image above to see how big it is, not exactly "web size." You can find many large images on websites if you know how to go behind the scenes. Are you saying that you think it is ok to steal an image off the web as long as you only steal a small web version and use it for personal projects? Do you think it is ok for others to download your images as long as they only download the thumbnails? It isn't right, those images are copyrighted! I can't believe you said that!!!!!!

I think next time I'll put a great big tattoo in the middle of it rather than at the bottom... That is a small file with low resolution...but I could see where someone would still be able to use it. Like you said Colette, the only way to prevent theft is don't put them on the internet. Thanks to these guys, I never realized the ease of copying them.

I was only joking about the big tattoo . If you notice the sunflower at the top of the page has a watermark at the bottom of the photo. I don't get enough traffic on that site to worry about it and most of the photos on there are old. They are also low resolution so that helps. You can right click and save as on all the stock sites to so it doesn't make any difference.