Background Images (1.0) 

"Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure" by Irving Wallace. Excitement, thrill, pleasure and adventure encourage people to get out and find such places. Background Images Magento Extension creates the same thrill for online shoppers at your site. Make your site lively with the help of custom background images for any page such as category, product, home page or any other CMS page. All this happens automatically through the Magento promotional rules functionality overridden into this module. Each time customers visit your site they see it in a new look ...

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Background Images Magento extension deals with one of the highly influential and most important aspects of frontend features for viewers. All in one place, it allows you to update background images of your site automatically with the help of comprehensive rules. With the help of these rules you can randomly update images for specific product pages or a category page. To illustrate the importance of event specific images, let us take a common example of our life. We like to dress up more glamorously for events because if we don’t, nobody would be attracted from us. Similarly changing the look and style of your site helps keep it in perfect health to catch customers’ attraction.

Background Images - Backend

Image Gallery:

Upload multiple images in this gallery which shall be applied dynamically to your site each time a user visits or refreshes it. You can select from the configuration if these images are to be displayed randomly or by ascending/descending order. These images will be applied based on the pages, products or categories that you would have selected.

Rules for Products:

A fully optimized backend module comes packed with this extension for you to freely define when, where and how the images should appear at the frontend? It implements this by overriding Magento’s default promotional rules implementation which does not require any admiration. These are some of the most comprehensive set of rules that you can create on eCommerce platforms. These rules are specifically provided for individual products. To give you an example, you can chose certain image to be applied as a background image of any product that has “red” color or has an SKU of “CANON-950” e.g.

Rules for Categories:

A separate section in the backend is provided to manage images for categories. Simply select the category from the category list provided and there you go.

Rules Priority and Timeframe:

This module allows you to define multiple rules with their respective priorities. Rules are applied based on their priority. Furthermore you can select the time frame for which this rule will be valid.

Background Images - Configuration:

A very simple configuration section allows you to activate this module and select the sorting mechanism you would like such as randomly, ascending or descending etc.

Background Images - Frontend:

Now that you have setup all the settings from backend, you customers will see this dynamic change as soon as they enter to your site. As mentioned above, you have the freedom of defining which page of your site should change its background image. This refreshing look keeps your customers happy and it conveys strong message to them about your efforts in regularly maintaining your site.

Background Images - Features:

  • All in one place to manage your background images. You don’t have to go to product or category pages to configure anything.
  • Create your desired image gallery to apply random background images on your site
  • Define countless rules by using Magento’s promotional rules functionality overridden in this module to automatically update background images product pages
  • Create multiple rules and assign them with priorities.
  • Define validity time period for rules. Rules will automatically be deactivated once the time period expires
  • Extremely easy to select and apply image rules on products, categories and CMS pages
  • Select your desired sorting mechanism such as by random, ascending or descending. This will define how images will change on your frontend
  • Multi-Store support
  • Separate category section to apply rules on category pages
  • Attract and retain your customers with this excellent customer oriented service.

Overview:

Background Images Frontend:

Your customers will see your site with a dynamic change as soon as they enter to your site. You have the freedom of defining which page of your site such as Home, About us, category or product page should change its background image with the help of Image rules. For example you can make a rule that if a product has “Red” color then change the background image of that product page. This refreshing look keeps your customers happy and it conveys strong message to them about your efforts in regularly maintaining your site.

Background Images Backend

Background Images Manager Grid:

  • Shows the Image Id, Title, Status and a link to Edit the Image rules
  • Change Status or delete by selecting from the grid and selecting the Action

Export to CSV:

  • You can Export al the information to a CSV or XML file
  • Select the type of file you would like to Save As and Click on Export

Add/Edit Image rules:

Image Information:

  • Set the Title by just editing the text field e.g. “Rule 1”
  • Assign priority to the rule. Rules are applied based on the priority. (1-Hightst, 10-least)
  • Enable or disable this rule
  • Select desired store view
  • Choose CMS pages on which this rule will be applied. It means that Background images will be changed for these pages e.g. Home page, About us etc.
  • Set this rule’s validity time period after which it will not be active

Background Images Gallery:

  • You can upload multiple images in this gallery which shall be applied to your site pages according to the sorting mechanism set out in the configuration
  • You can set the sort order in this section for each image
  • You can also disable any image conveniently

Conditions:

  • These conditions will only be applied on products and not on categories. For categories see below section
  • We have overridden Magento’s catalog promotion rules functionality. Now you can easily create countless rules with great many conditions. You can also combine these conditions to make much stronger rule.
  • You can create multiple conditions by clicking on plus sign and similarly remove any by clicking on cross sign
  • The underlined text can be customized like if you click on True you will find a drop down appear on its place from where you can select other options
  • Once you click on plus sign to create new condition for this rule, you will find a drop down with available product attributes. Once you click on any attribute its corresponding options will appear so that you can apply further checks

Categories:

  • Select any category or subcategory on which this rule will be applied

Background Images Configuration :

  • Enable or disable this module from the drop down
  • Select the sorting mechanism. Selecting random will update images from gallery each time a page is refreshed. Otherwise images will be picked up based on ascending or descending sort id of images.

Reviews

You guys have taken the Magento Rules functionality and used it in such a way that i am blow away. Super Stuff

yuri
A Fan

8/15/12

No need to have a Developer make any changes now :) I can create a Background image for any page on my magento store and get a entire new Look. Good Idea guys.

Simon
Branding made easy

7/18/12

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