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New Post 15/11/2008 18:07
  Rodney Joyce
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Sponsored Enhancement Proposal Estimate - Background Styler  (Australia)
Modified By Rodney Joyce  on 17/11/2008 23:33:49)

Esitmate for CrowdSourcing consideration. If you would like to be a Project Sponsor please reply to this thread and let us know your requirements for this feature.

  • Name: Background Styler
  • Description:  Module that can be put on aby entity page (profile, group, event etc.) and allow item owner to change the background colour or image
  • Proposed Deliverables: New UI module in UP module - stores setting for item owner and loads it when profile/group/event is loaded. Owner can upload image.
  • References: Allows MySpace-style background changes
  • Consider:  Might depends on skin and CSS settings - may need some tweaking in first version

Estimate based on above functionality: 6 hours

Cost: $50 * 6 hours  = $300

Individual Project Sponsor Amount: 6 people at $50 or 3 people at $100.

 

  Crowd Amount
Sponsored 1 $50
Still Needed 5 $250
 

If you would like to sponsor this project please reply to this thead and discuss your requirements. Does the above solution meet your needs? Do you have any unique use-cases that need to be considered?

 


Thanks
Rodney
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New Post 16/11/2008 06:28
  Steve J.
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Re: Sponsored Enhancement Proposal Estimate - Background Styler  (United States)

Hey Rod,

Let me preface this by saying that page views are the most important aspect to me personally since that is where you can get income.  The comment options, and filter options are things that get people changing pages/views on the website, so for me having the functionality improved before bells and whistles is very important.

I would be into the background styler if it had 2 modes, "background mode" or "header mode".  The admin could opt to let the user choose which mode or force a mode.  With "header mode" it would work like the common blog headers and have an admin defined width so you can keep the site layout consistent.  Any uploaded image *larger* than the defined width would be scaled down to size.  The problem I have with backgrounds is that in many cases the user has no design sense and it can make the site look like crap. ;)  I probably wouldn't want my users to do that, however with a header you have more control. (i.e. - they can be happy to personalize their profile, but can't muck up the look of the page too badly.  I just randomly went to blogspot, and it gives you plenty of examples by hitting "next blog".  Not all of them have an "image header", but most have at least done something with text.

http://roetzelreport.blogspot.com/

Thanks!
Steve

 
New Post 16/11/2008 23:32
  marbab
118 posts
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Re: Sponsored Enhancement Proposal Estimate - Background Styler  (Pakistan)

I can contribute 50$ for this.

 
New Post 17/11/2008 20:34
  Rodney Joyce
3229 posts
www.DNNDir.com
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Re: Sponsored Enhancement Proposal Estimate - Background Styler  (Australia)

 marbab wrote

I can contribute 50$ for this.

Thanks marbab, I have updated the project.


Thanks
Rodney
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New Post 17/11/2008 20:41
  Rodney Joyce
3229 posts
www.DNNDir.com
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Re: Sponsored Enhancement Proposal Estimate - Background Styler  (Australia)

 Steve J. wrote

I would be into the background styler if it had 2 modes, "background mode" or "header mode".  The admin could opt to let the user choose which mode or force a mode.  With "header mode" it would work like the common blog headers and have an admin defined width so you can keep the site layout consistent.  Any uploaded image *larger* than the defined width would be scaled down to size.  The problem I have with backgrounds is that in many cases the user has no design sense and it can make the site look like crap. ;)  I probably wouldn't want my users to do that, however with a header you have more control. (i.e. - they can be happy to personalize their profile, but can't muck up the look of the page too badly.  I just randomly went to blogspot, and it gives you plenty of examples by hitting "next blog".  Not all of them have an "image header", but most have at least done something with text.

 

I think the first version of this would be fairly simple and would just allow the user to chose an image from their harddrive and upload it. I could add some options like Titled (most MySpace pages are like this I think), Centered, Stretched or Default (any others?). I would need to look into this more but it's basically going to be passing on the paramaters as a CSS include specific for that user - that is, it has to be doable in CSS/clientside. This is a bit of a tricky one - the module will control WHO can change the background and which CSS/image to show (based on the URL - e.g. are they the profile owner or group owner) but the client and skin will be doign the rendering - I need to make sure this is feasible (of course, everyone is refunded if it is not!)

 

Would you like to sponsor it? If so, how much?


Thanks
Rodney
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New Post 26/11/2008 21:43
  coolvibe
103 posts
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Re: Sponsored Enhancement Proposal Estimate - Background Styler  (United States)

Hmmm, this sounds like something interesting. Will users be able to use the same "myspace layouts" ?

 
New Post 27/11/2008 01:42
  Rodney Joyce
3229 posts
www.DNNDir.com
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Re: Sponsored Enhancement Proposal Estimate - Background Styler  (Australia)

 coolvibe wrote

Hmmm, this sounds like something interesting. Will users be able to use the same "myspace layouts" ?

No, the first version will be as simple as possible. It will just allow the user to change the background with any single image.


Thanks
Rodney
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New Post 11/03/2009 23:00
  gbrown
6 posts
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Re: Sponsored Enhancement Proposal Estimate - Background Styler  (United States)

I would be interested in contributing to this but.......

I think it would be much better if there was a folder for picture backgrounds the end user could choose from that the admin places there. This way you don't have tons of really large file uploads - using up disk space, you won't have users creating unreadable profiles like you do on MySpace, and last it would cut down on support issues.

Also, don't know if it is possible but this would be a cool module for just regular DNN pages as well.

Greg

 
New Post 12/03/2009 05:18
  marbab
118 posts
3rd Level Poster


Re: Sponsored Enhancement Proposal Estimate - Background Styler  (Pakistan)

Yes, thi could also be done. Admin can specify some templetes for subscriber only.

 
New Post 12/03/2009 05:30
  marbab
118 posts
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Re: Sponsored Enhancement Proposal Estimate - Background Styler  (Pakistan)

I have few suggestions. Have you seen the two module i.e.

Inject Anything and SW.ScriptInjector

What they does ? They basically inject the script at runtime.


I am looking for a module for a long time that'll allow website users to add custom styling to their profile page.
For Profile i am using smart-thinker module.

So I tried 'Inject Anything' for that. To test it, i copied a free myspace (myspace.com) script and paste it under 'Inject anything'. It somehow worked. The problem with 'Inject anything' is that it's only for admin to specify the script. If we somehow allow users to write custom layout codess/scripts etc then it'll be great. They don't allow normal website user to do so.

So here is the suggestion for this enhancement. For simplicity i am only talking about profile page.
- Provide a multiline Text box for a users where they can write their own custom profile page script (we can disallow few tags for security).
- Custom profile script is saved according to the user id etc, so that all user's script is saved separately.
- Now this will work on two mode: 1) Login user 2) Custom defined like UserID etc.
- When a URL is accessed having USERID and it search for the custom script for that particular user (if specified). If the user has specified any custom script/css etc then it will be inserted in the page. Same is the case of login user mode.

By this way users can defined custom script for their profile,groups, events pages etc etc etc.

I think by this way this feature will cover a large number of module users. Users can set their Article page layout dynamically if we set URL to Article ID (Ventrian Article module their are other article module too). Similarly Users can set layout of their Photo Gallery page by setting Gallery id (Ultra media gallery module), Similarly users can set layout of their own group module by setting group ID (Smart-thinker module) etc etc etc

Please share your thoughts about it and its possibility.

 
New Post 12/03/2009 05:33
  marbab
118 posts
3rd Level Poster


Re: Sponsored Enhancement Proposal Estimate - Background Styler  (Pakistan)


The other idea is to Allow a user to upload an image and then just simply make that image the Background image to that particular page on page loading based on user ID or logged in user. By this way user can set background image of their profile, groups, events etc etc.

Please share your thoughts .....

 
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