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Do we want custom backgrounds on a profile page?

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I've done some tinkering on my profile page, keep?

Yes, gimme
No thanks, lame
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ChelleLaBelle
Active Ink Slinger
Quote by LushPrincess
I think there’s something wrong with it.. unless it’s my computer, but only the bottom part of my profile is in color a very small part
Mine is the same way....
gav
Code Monkey
Sorry!

I had an emergency fix to make, which meant I had to publish the profile cuztomization unfinished.

Hopefully I will get a complete version up by the end of the week.

Feel free to choose your color in the meantime!
gav
Code Monkey
I have now added the option to select an image from your gallery for your profile background. Once you have chosen an image, you can opt to have this scroll with the page, or remain fixed as the user scrolls. Experiment, see which you prefer.

So that you can import a background specifically for your profile page and not have this displayed on your gallery, I have added the option to exclude pictures from appearing in your gallery. Oh. there's also a link to an image, in case you want to share your nudie pictures with anyone
DirtyMartini
Purveyor of Poetry & Porn
Hey Gav...the background image thingy seems to work, but I have been getting an error message today every time I refresh the page...here it is:

"No object with ID #backimagecontainer exists yet. Call curvyCorners (Settings, obj) when it is created."

That it is exactly how it appears, with the capitalization mid-word...ie "curvyCorners"

Thanks,
Alan.

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Guest
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Do I have a choice in this matter? ,, and if I do,, just leave mine alone.
savanna
Active Ink Slinger
Quote by shameless009
Do I have a choice in this matter? ,, and if I do,, just leave mine alone.


You need to do your background shameless it will be cute to see your teeth there
scarletblue
Active Ink Slinger
Hiya GAV

Got the same problem as Alan
PLEASE HELP

Tx
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Pixie
Flutterby Pharie
I am getting the same message as everyone else, even when going to someone else's page.
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Algol
Active Ink Slinger
Aside from that little pop-up error... I do like the new feature it is very cool... Thanks Gav!
Algol
Guest
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Good addition Gav...thanks for you hard work and time
gav
Code Monkey
Internet Explorer cant draw curved corners. I was using a plugin to attempt to curvify the boxes on your profile page, however this seems to have failed.

I have deactivated the code for now until I can get a better way to draw round corners.

Why cant everyone just use firefox
Guest
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Quote by gav

Why cant everyone just use firefox




Exactly the world would be so much better with out the evils of microshaft lmao did I just say that out loud? LMAO
Guest
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Just uploaded a simple little Lush mark that I doodled and tiled. the background seems to work great in Opera, Firefox, and Safari. In other site nits, Opera doesn't display the radius corners in the header, sidebar, and body, but that is minor. There is a text wrap issue in Firefox in the header nav. (Maybe just in Mac versions?) I gave up developing for MSIE pre v7. And I am thinking about killing everything prior to version 8 and 9. Microsoft couldn't develop a standards compliant piece of code if their life depended on it. I use webshots to test cross-browser/platform issues.

I use Opera as my "under the radar" browser of choice. It is buried in my operating system (Adobe used to do a default install of Opera on Macs whenever you loaded the CS suit.) By doing this, I never have to worry about NSFW cache, history, or bookmark issues.

Not that anybody here with the exception of Gav, cares about any of that :-P

Anyway ... I like the background option. Easy to use and sort of fun. I cringe when I think of the non-tiling garish visual abuse this might give birth to. But ... different strokes ...
TomTease
Active Ink Slinger
Looks great, good work.

Would it be possible to implement an option to tile or not tile pictures? Or stretch to fit size.? Or tile only vertical or horizontal? Or all of these plus a flashing bar on top with half naked people dancing in it? Too much to ask for? Ok I'll shut up smile

Thanks
Guest
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Quote by Exakta66
Hey Gav...the background image thingy seems to work, but I have been getting an error message today every time I refresh the page...here it is:

"No object with ID #backimagecontainer exists yet. Call curvyCorners (Settings, obj) when it is created."

That it is exactly how it appears, with the capitalization mid-word...ie "curvyCorners"

Thanks,
Alan.


Yeah I got that too, so back to white page now.
Guest
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Quote by gav

Why cant everyone just use firefox




Exactly the world would be so much better with out the evils of microshaft lmao did I just say that out loud? LMAO


ha ha Microshaft - definition. A small shunt inbetween my butt, from my man's hard stiffy
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Quote by NobeUddy
Just uploaded a simple little Lush mark that I doodled and tiled. the background seems to work great in Opera, Firefox, and Safari. In other site nits, Opera doesn't display the radius corners in the header, sidebar, and body, but that is minor. There is a text wrap issue in Firefox in the header nav. (Maybe just in Mac versions?) I gave up developing for MSIE pre v7. And I am thinking about killing everything prior to version 8 and 9. Microsoft couldn't develop a standards compliant piece of code if their life depended on it. I use webshots to test cross-browser/platform issues.

I use Opera as my "under the radar" browser of choice. It is buried in my operating system (Adobe used to do a default install of Opera on Macs whenever you loaded the CS suit.) By doing this, I never have to worry about NSFW cache, history, or bookmark issues.

Not that anybody here with the exception of Gav, cares about any of that :-P

Anyway ... I like the background option. Easy to use and sort of fun. I cringe when I think of the non-tiling garish visual abuse this might give birth to. But ... different strokes ...


I wish I knew what you are talking about. I also wish I knew how to get a background image on my profile, because so far, the picture I wanted doesn't appear, and the colour background reverts to white. I checked yours out, very nice effect!

And I'm using a Mac and FF.
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Quote by NobeUddy
Just uploaded a simple little Lush mark that I doodled and tiled. the background seems to work great in Opera, Firefox, and Safari. In other site nits, Opera doesn't display the radius corners in the header, sidebar, and body, but that is minor. There is a text wrap issue in Firefox in the header nav. (Maybe just in Mac versions?) I gave up developing for MSIE pre v7. And I am thinking about killing everything prior to version 8 and 9. Microsoft couldn't develop a standards compliant piece of code if their life depended on it. I use webshots to test cross-browser/platform issues.

I use Opera as my "under the radar" browser of choice. It is buried in my operating system (Adobe used to do a default install of Opera on Macs whenever you loaded the CS suit.) By doing this, I never have to worry about NSFW cache, history, or bookmark issues.

Not that anybody here with the exception of Gav, cares about any of that :-P

Anyway ... I like the background option. Easy to use and sort of fun. I cringe when I think of the non-tiling garish visual abuse this might give birth to. But ... different strokes ...


I wish I knew what you are talking about. I also wish I knew how to get a background image on my profile, because so far, the picture I wanted doesn't appear, and the colour background reverts to white. I checked yours out, very nice effect!

And I'm using a Mac and FF.



Not sure if this will help, but here is what I did:

1. Create seamless tiling texture save it as a jpg. (128 pixels or 256 pixels square.)
2. Upload it to your Image Gallery on your profile page (You will need to be logged-in)
3. Go to Settings up in the navigation bar, and select Customize Profile.
4. Click (choose) the image that you just uploaded.
5. Push the "Update Image" button.
6. return to your profile and bask in your creative genius.
Guest
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Quote by NobeUddy


Not sure if this will help, but here is what I did:

1. Create seamless tiling texture save it as a jpg. (128 pixels or 256 pixels square.)
2. Upload it to your Image Gallery on your profile page (You will need to be logged-in)
3. Go to Settings up in the navigation bar, and select Customize Profile.
4. Click (choose) the image that you just uploaded.
5. Push the "Update Image" button.
6. return to your profile and bask in your creative genius.



Thank you. That helped a lot. I didn't know that the image had to be square, which must be why the rest of the procedure wasn't working for me. I now have a lovely background, based on one of my photos.



As for basking in my creative genius, I couldn't resist showing off here as well.

Thanks!
nicola
Matriarch
The stretch option doesn't go 100% vertically on my laptop.

I like the background NobeUddy, you are a man of many talents.
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Quote by gypsymoth
Quote by NobeUddy


Not sure if this will help, but here is what I did:

1. Create seamless tiling texture save it as a jpg. (128 pixels or 256 pixels square.)
2. Upload it to your Image Gallery on your profile page (You will need to be logged-in)
3. Go to Settings up in the navigation bar, and select Customize Profile.
4. Click (choose) the image that you just uploaded.
5. Push the "Update Image" button.
6. return to your profile and bask in your creative genius.



Thank you. That helped a lot. I didn't know that the image had to be square, which must be why the rest of the procedure wasn't working for me. I now have a lovely background, based on one of my photos.



As for basking in my creative genius, I couldn't resist showing off here as well.

Thanks!


Glad I could help. The images do not need to be square, but making them square is an easy way to test seamless tiling. Optimizing the picture for quick loading is also a concern. A 128 square picture loads instantly and you are not eating up bandwidth for a picture that will be largely covered up. Although there is a 4 meg limit on image uploads in the image gallery, there appears to be a limit on displayed pixel size. I have tested a 44k tiling image that is 2400 x 1206 and it defaults back to a view with a smaller pixel size. It would be nice to have those limits listed on the customization page as well.

@Nicola: I have a few (not many) talents, but I leverage the hell out of them. ;-)
Guest
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I'm not sure if this is allowed but today I found a wonderful freeware program (about 15mb) that creates seamless tiles Imagelys Picture Styles for those who don't have photoshop etc.

I was able to do the one below in less than 2 minutes. Just click on 'Image' and then 'Make Seamless'.

Before


After


It also allows you to download textures, has filters and also allows you to resize the image.