If your web site is for the purpose of selling artwork or imagary you may be concerned about the "save picture as" in the right-click menu of the IE browser. You might prefer to have some way to "copy protect" images on the website.

First I need to make some common sense points...

- A web browser downloads all web content to the client PC to be able to display it. Any one can go to the Interent temp files folder on their pc and grab image files or any file that is from the site. Basically anything on a web page is available to be taken. That is the nature of the web.

- The technique professionals in the image trade use is that of watermarking images and of only displaying low quality versions. Visit a professional image online seller and you can see these techniques. That is the proper way to implement a "copy protection scheme" to online image content, short of not displaying it at all.

- The no right click menu "trick" you may encounter on some sites is only a little JavaScript "trick". Any idiot
that likes to copy images knows to go into the browser settings and turn off JavaScript support. That's all it takes to circumvent that "copy protection". That then enables them to right click until their fingers go numb.

- The fast way to grab an image off a web page is to just go to View, Source and look at the page source
for the image file name and then go to that URL and viola you have the image. For example the site - www.realsimple.com - the image is at http://i.timeinc.net/realsimple/i/dsgn/logo.gif . No JavaScript routine is stopping that.

You can't stop the site visitor from doing something, you can only implement a level of security that minimizes your concerns. In the case of protecting image content, the solution is, as mentioned earlier, watermarking.

But, (there is always a but ;-) it just so happens that the "save as picture" being discussed in this article is not available on Publisher 2003 made web pages. For example look at the sample site at http://www.davidbartosik.com/2003samples/network_easy_web/  - try the right click on an image.

Publisher 2003 implements VML technology, which if viewed in a VML browser (IE 6+) you will find that there is no "save picture as" option in the right click menu. If elimination of the right click menu option is the only level of security you desire then this meets your needs. However the image is still available, you only have to view the source code to find the image path - http://www.davidbartosik.com/2003samples/network_easy_web//index_image378.gif  - load this URL in the browser and you have the image. You can then "save picture as" or File, Save as.

Again the answer to actually "copy protect" images is to watermark a lower quality resolution copy of the image.

Publisher is not an image editor so plan on using your own photo editor tool to do watermarking.