Hide Site Actions - SharePoint 2010

Hiding the Site Actions button on Public Facing SharePoint Foundation (or Server) sites:

• Open up SharePoint Designer
• Open the Master Page being utilized for your sites
• Locate the following snippet of code:

         <span class="ms-siteactionsmenu" id="siteactiontd">

• Add:
<SharePoint:SPSecurityTrimmedControl runat="server" Permissions="ManageSubWebs">
just before the line of code in 3.

• Right click on the tag in step 3 and click on Select Tag.
• Enter this after the span tag: </SharePoint:SPSecurityTrimmedControl>.
• Save the Master Page.
• Approve and publish if required (server version).