Protecting Photos in IWeb Webpage

Is there additional ways to protect your photos from being downloaded from your webpage other than the Password Inspector button?

Perri
I'm relatively new to the subject of image protection on the internet but what I can tell you so far is that there are many documents on the internet which list the various methods one can use to make it more difficult to steal images, these include things like watermarking; copyright notices, right click disabling, cloaking the image with a transparent GIF, source code encryption and so on.
One such document you will find here:
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/pub0009/LPArticle.asp?ID=41
Unfortunately, the conclusion many arrive at is there is no foolproof way to proect your images - if they are no the net they can be taken.
I'm still researching myself and i've just posted a question here about encryption. If you find any useful info./links please post them
Good luck Barry

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