Crazy idea?

[Fellow Eskimo]

Ok, I know this is a crazy idea, but is it possible to add an additional field in the admin section for color input? Let me be clearer. I would like a field where I could enter a HTML color value (such as #ffffff) and that be the background of THAT picture individual link. Possible? Ive seen it done, but im not sure how.

Example:http://greyexpectations.com/

I could alter my layout to accept the values...if I knew how. Yes yes, this is way left field.

[raminia+]

yeah it could be! really!

just like Photoblink.com

[GeoS+]

But there are 2 different ways of this idea:

1) http://greyexpectations.com/ - many CSS versions
2) bgcolor switcher

I think that first one won't be done by PP dev team. Second is possible as addon + template.
I think that in more general way (adding bgcolor as table cell bg) it can be done as official part of PP code (as additional tag avalible for all templates).

[Rob]

Rather than just colors that get added, I think it should be a field for stylesheet to use. Notice how the background and the matting color changes. I think it would be better to somehow list available CSS styles and switch them, that way, you could change more than just one color, you could change the background, text, or even layout to suit your photos...

[raminia+]

but what if you (author) want one photo to have a black backgournd and another one to have a white BG?

That's what is available in photoblink publishing...

[Rob]

Originally Posted by raminia

but what if you (author) want one photo to have a black backgournd and another one to have a white BG?

That's what is available in photoblink publishing...

That is what I mean. On the image post page, we could have a dropdown to select different CSS files that only change the colors. The templates could still have one common CSS file for stuff that doesn't change per photo.

[Joe[y]+]

Originally Posted by Rob

That is what I mean. On the image post page, we could have a dropdown to select different CSS files that only change the colors. The templates could still have one common CSS file for stuff that doesn't change per photo.

why keep them separate? there could simply be a folder designated for stylesheets that the user can adjust as they wish (put new template stylesheets in etc) and just choose each time they post a photo - or set a default css if the option does not interest them.

[GeoS+]

There is other possibility - tag for CSS filename selected from list on upload image form.
If you don't take special CSS fiel then you should get standard template CSS file.

What do you think about that??

[Joe[y]+]

sounds good to me!

[blinking8s+]

id personally like to see the template system revised with a style section, so the default template is simple, but users have the ability to change things like border color/image ect...just like how they do forums and other applications...but that would be a pretty steep turn for pixelpost