Change background image with WebYep?

I am using WebYep for a CMS system on a site that I am designing. I have added the filemanager plugin from MoxieCode.

The client has asked if she can change the background image, and I told her that it’s possible (I will just load a background from a URL and have her upload a file with the required name).

My question: Is there any way that I can give her greater control over the background image via WebYep, such as choosing whether or not to center/tile?

Any information will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

TB


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I’m going to take a stab here and say no not really unless they were to edit the HTML files on their own. I did a search over on the webyep forum for you and found things such as changing page titles or adding your own meta tags and keywords for the client to edit, but nothing design wise as far as background images and / or background options.

WebYep is a content management system, not a content developer or designer.

I’d be interested to see if someone else came up with a solution, but I believe you’d be safe to say that it’s just not possible.


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Proof here that it cannot be done by Johannes:

http://forums.obdev.at/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=4232&p=14432&hilit=background#p14432

My German is a bit sparse but Google translate should be able to translate that out for you.


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Thanks, Dan J! What about for a header image? Is there a way to tell WebYep to only upload images with specific dimensions?

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Well for that you could use an ‘WebYep Image’ set up for them to change headers and then upload it to fit a certain size.

That one is do-able.


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Doing this method, I see some cons (to my actual point of knowledge).

The “fit a certain size” assumes, that the basic image has the same dimensions as the div it should content:

Example:

Div the images holds: 600 x 50 px

Image to load: 750 x 100

WY will resize this on 325 x 50 (either fits on height or on width). That’s not really the expected result.

Will mean:

If you need a proper size of images, you should discuss that with customer. Make clear, that changing (important) size based images, have to be prebuild to fit the dimensions.

Make clear, that the file-size should be KB and not MB - I know that customer are doing some funny things in here.

WebYep is a very extended thing, that enables customer doing lot of things - but on a few things, WY is not (unfortunately) designed for:

• Creating a “Main Navigation” or

• Changing basic design aspects (backgrounds …)

The “Rich-Text Element” with TextEditor and FileManager will extend these things, but it will not save you from the basic problems.

BTW: to give any advices without seeing a page (design) is a shot in the dark. If this may nonsense please correct me - I’m willing to learn and extend my personal knowledge.

Cheers

Thomas


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