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Originally Posted by tomcatuk
No problem with people reading my code if their using it to learn how the page is assembled - agree with Bill - knowing what the various HTML & CSS variables actually do, rather than relying on Dreamweaver/Frontpage/etc to do it for you seems to be dying out. I switched to Notepad as my main editor this year but I doubt many other newbies are doing that anymore.
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There are more reasons to use a GUI development kit than just drag-n-drop. I personally hand code myself and also despise code generators, but I use HomeSite because I like the code color identifiers, the automatic tag closure, and other snippets and features. There is no drag-n-drop, but its much more powerful than Notepad. And what's better is there are other cheaper GUIs out there too, like EditPlus (which I also own) and TextPad.
Back in context, I've considered obfuscation on and off. It might at least keep the honest thieves out (too much trouble for them, so they move on). But not sure obfuscaters are worth the cost (and the cheap/free ones aren't worth the time). Aside from the need to decrypt it, most save a little bit on file size too (for anyone trying to shave off an extra 50-500 Kb from their page (depending on page weight).
And yes, thanks BJ for the reminder on Copyscape
P.S. Can anyone post an example of an IP block using .htaccess? I know I can Google it, but Google is made up of on-topic threads such as these where an example might help someone in their Google search someday
