Protecting Demo Site Designs

[Connie]

Is there a way to protect a demo site from being copied / downloaded?
I am hoping to set up a web design service and would like to have some ready-made sites/themes for sale.
How can i show theme while protecting the code and image files from being used.
Any suggestions greatly appreciated, thanks!

There is no real such way. What is published is published, you cannot protect the sourcecode of webpage

as long as it is HTML it will be copied
but the template-tags are translated, so "Copiers" won't see which template tags you used, how you created the templates

the only way to "protect" a demo-site would be to make screenshots and present these in a slideshow ... but does that make sense?

Did you check how big template portals work? I think you can get some suggestions from there,

unregistered users see screenshots, registered users see working demos ...

Cheers, Connie