Background Image

BrotherWolf

Hi.....everyone else seems to have worked this out but how do you change the background image on a predefined theme. Content/Photo won't fill the screen and Theme/Background Photos just gives a list of two tone themes which doesn't relate to background photos at all. When I choose a defined theme like Arrow there is a resturant in the background.....there must be a way of changing it but it's beyond me.

The thing that really lills me is that this probably isn't a difficult thing to do at all :-/

thenickdude

Don't feel bad, because this is really well hidden!

In Customize Site, go to the Theme tab, and hover over the Active Theme. A spanner icon will appear on the right side, click on that. Then you should find the Background tab where you can set a background photo.

BrotherWolf

Thanks for the reply....didn't work initially but it turned out that that was because I'd changed to a different option in the background photo's option. Once I'd deleted that the spanner appeared.

BigRed

Lamah wrote: »

Don't feel bad, because this is really well hidden!

In Customize Site, go to the Theme tab, and hover over the Active Theme. A spanner icon will appear on the right side, click on that. Then you should find the Background tab where you can set a background photo.

Lamah: I like the way you have randomized the full-screen image on your homepage, so visitors see a different photo (every one gorgeous!) each time they open it. A very good alternative to the non-randomizable SM slideshow. Would you mind sharing how you did that? Thanks.

thenickdude

Currently, my method requires JavaScript to generate a random number which chooses the background, so unfortunately it can't really be used on New SmugMug.

Instead, you could find an image rotation service on the web, like this one (though I haven't tried that place). You'll give them a list of links to images that you want them to display (from your SmugMug account), and they'll give you an address like http://imagerotation.com/rotate?userid=2913124. If you set the background of your page to that address, the background will randomly change between the images you chose! You would need to set that background using CSS, like so:

html {
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	background-position: center top;
	background-attachment: scroll;
	background-image: url(http://imagerotation.com/rotate?userid=2913124);
	background-size: 100%;
	background-size: cover;
}

I'm not certain if you would have to actually refresh the page to see it change or not, but give it a go.

I've added "please add support for randomised background images" to the feature suggestions forum, so hopefully SmugMug picks that up.

BigRed

Lamah wrote: »

Currently, my method requires JavaScript to generate a random number which chooses the background, so unfortunately it can't really be used on New SmugMug.

[SNIP]

I've added "please add support for randomised background images" to the feature suggestions forum, so hopefully SmugMug picks that up.

Lamah, I'm not seeing that new feature request -- would you mind linking? Thanks!

thenickdude

Sure, here you go:

http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=238840

EZPhotos

Your post was exactly what I was looking for... thank you..