It would help me if my competitors couldnt see my code. I know how to right click disable, but imagine there are plenty of ways around that, although not sure.

Some SEO company showed me a site they had made, and there was almost no html. They implied that the page was generated by scripts called from the page in question and that the scripts were secure somewhere on the bowles of protected directories. I guess thats true, but if I cannot see it, can a search engine.

I guess my question is; Is there a secure way to hide your code from hackers, but not from search engines? I would love to hear it.

Nope

The client (ie. end-user browser) has to know how to render the page. So if it's encrypted, generated (as you said) or just badly written -- it can be "decoded".

So no matter what you do (other then taking it off the web, hehe) then everyone will be able to see your code. But it's just HTML/CSS, not like there's anything to hide

what exactly is it you want hidden?
the text? the graphics? is there a web aplication that is running?

text and graphics CANNOT be hidden. whatever you do, there will alaways be a way around it ....

code (html, css, xml) cannot be hidden eighter ...

could you perhaps tell us more about what it is you actually want hidden in case these two replies didn't answer your question?

Theres no way of hiding your code..

even dissabling rightclick... You can still view the souce by typing 'view-source:http://site.com' or source from under the view menu

If it was PHP code you wouldn't need to worry as the user will not be able to see the code anyway they will just see the end product that is produced by the PHP

-James

continuing Dark-skys ideea on PHP: same goes for asp (active server pages) and jsp (java server pages).

EDIT: and thanks for the tip Dark-skyes ... didn't know that one

Originally Posted by Dark-Skys99

You can still view the souce by typing 'view-source:http://site.com'

Nice tip, James. I know it's the opposite of what the original poster wanted to hear, but this is something I didn't know!

Yes it is what the original poster wanted to hear. I am very comfortable with html, but hardly at all with java. What would it take to learn PHP, and how would I start?

There are lot's of other threads that talk about where to learn PHP, here's a good one.

Larry,

I think you should be aware that PHP will not actually hide the HTML source code of your pages. PHP (Hypertext Pre Processor to give it it's full name) is a scripting language that manipulates data and then formats it into HTML code so that this data can be written to a web page in an appropriate and logical format. The HTML code generated by the PHP will still be visible using the various view source methods available.

As previous posts have said, there is no sure way of hiding HTML code because it has to be sent from the server to the web browser of the user. If it didn't do this, then the user would only ever get a blank page.

Some SEO company showed me a site they had made, and there was almost no html

I would love to see this site, to see if what they claim is actually true and to try and work out how they did it!

Ian.

This is a great place, and you all are an awesome group of people.

Thanks for the advice.