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?

I can contribute 50$ for this.

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?

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.