Love that vBulletin?

Posted on April 2, 2007
Filed Under Design | 2 Comments

Countless hours and just as many headaches with all the flavors of forum software led me to a shift in design policy to limit my future designs being sold on the new template site to vBulletin and Simple Machines Forums. Is that an announcement? Well, sort of, but more of a declaration of what I believe to be the only true conclusion for the best forum solutions among those available. I’m biased yes, since I own or administer literally dozens of vBulletin forums for clients and friends on this giant internet.

I’ve said it for years and I’m quoted in countless forums where the arguments have come up on which forum solution is the best and I’ve always believed vBulletin is it. But more and more I’m getting people asking about design work for SMF (Simple Machines Forums) largely because of the massive popularity of Joomla CMS.
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How to Expire Template Demos

Posted on April 2, 2007
Filed Under Design, Template Design Kit | 1 Comment


Expiring template demonstrations and protecting your work.

If you’ve ever wanted to allow a potential customer the ability to demo your template or themes while still protecting your rights then this little snippet may be the answer.

The idea behind the code is to simply provide a potential buyer or client a theme they can test run on their domain and expire the template after a period of time. Having worked for large template houses in the past, I’ve seen all too frequently where people have ripped off designs by simply looking at the web page source code and figuring out the rest from there. The temptation is to use tactics many times lengthy to protect your work often resulting in a slow loading site.

Now I use to publish live demos on my domains much like the template houses do and one of my favorite techniques that works great is to simply encrypt the template with a tool called HTML Guardian which works beautifully for such things. You can post a live working example of the theme or template and the code is completely hidden from prying eyes until they purchase the design.

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