We are creating a multilingual site with Lektor using Alternatives. Besides the localized content, we have few images containing some text which needs to be localized as well. Which would be the smartest way to create links to images depending on the locale?
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Recently started work on a BigCommerce project and on the homepage I want to have a theme area where normal site admin users can upload their own images based on holidays (Xmas, halloween etc) in the theme editor.
I know how to add in some custom elements in the theme editor using the Schema and Config files (headings, text, font colours etc), and how to reference them in the homepage. I'm also fine with referencing set images in the assets folder which aren't going to change, and manually coding references to them.
However I can't quite seem to work out how to add a custom image upload to the theme editor, or how to reference it in a page. Can't seem to find any answers in the Stencil documentation or usual Google searches etc either.
The Stencil Theme Editor currently only supports the file upload data type in the Optimized One-Page Checkout customization settings, but there are a couple of possible workarounds to allow the user to upload their custom background image and then reference it in Theme Editor settings:
One option would be to have the user upload their image to WebDAV, making sure that their image followed a naming convention that you specified. For example, the Halloween image could be required to have the file name halloween.png. You could map that value to a Theme Editor dropdown setting for Holiday Background>Halloween.
Another solution might be to have the user upload their image to WebDAV as mentioned above, but instead of a dropdown menu, you could have the user type their file's name into a text input setting in the Theme Editor. Keep in mind though that there's a 64 character limit for input values.
Hope this helps!
There are 4 ways to get images into the BigCommerce store.
You can:
Upload into the content folder through webdav. Then the images would be referenced like url.com/content/image.jpg. This does require a webdav connection and while everything does point you to using file managers like cyberduck, you can actually map a drive to a network resource to make this super easy. This mean you can create a z drive that is actually your bigcommerce content upload through webdav. It's pretty easy to set up and for customers to use. The drawback is that these files do not get put on a CDN so there's a little loss of performance.
Upload into the theme's images folders. This is complex and would require your client to figure out the stencil local dev connection and push versions up to their store. This would allow the images to be CDN'd but is super complex and your clients won't figure it out... It could also expose you to some long-term version control issues as they may be overwriting you or vice versa.
You can use the media manager to upload images. If you're referring to them in code, an easy trick is when your clients want to replace an image, to delete it and upload a new one with the exact same name... then the reference doesn't break. This is the easiest way to deal with site-wide issues from the client-side. Images are CDN'd this way as well.
You can consider using the marketing banner function for semi-temporary marketing messages. This is what it is made for, the images will be CDN'd and it's full GUI with no techy connections for your clients to figure out. This is perfect for banners that span a single page, but I don't think there is currently a side-wide setting for locations.
I am currently working on Sitefinity multilingual (English & Arabic) web application where I am getting a very strange issue regarding document (image) upload.
In my News module, I have a custom field for upload image. When I am adding an Arabic news of a news (translating in Arabic language of already added news of English site) that time the image is showing the (not translated) message and the image is not showing in the Arabic site after publish. And when I select another image in that image upload field that time it's showing in Arabic site but then it's removed from English site.
It's happened because you need to create AR translation for image.
When you are creating Arabic translation for new, you will see:
That means your image is not translated. You need to go to Content->Images, find your image and add AR translation (in my screenshot it is Spanish):
After that, image will appear in the Arabic site
In case, if you want different images for different languages, you can upload different image for AR translation. It is supported only in Sitefinity 9.0 and after. You need to chose Use another file for this translation ยป or upload another file for this translation. You can find more details in this documentation:
http://docs.sitefinity.com/translate-content-items-and-taxonomies#translate-an-existing-media-content-item
If you have older version of Sitefinity, you can check this article: http://knowledgebase.progress.com/articles/Article/How-to-localize-media-content
I'd like to be able to generate my own thumbnails for some image files with custom extensions (say, a .canon file that is really a TIFF), so that Finder would use them.
I don't want to change the file contents (nor am I interested in the embedded tiff thumbnail).
Creating the thumbnail from the file's contents would be easy, the tricky part is integration. Does anyone know if it's possible?
The custom extensions won't be associated to any/other app.
I've done a lot of iOS development but know very little about OS X components.
If it's not possible to use Finder at all, is it at least possible to store the thumbnails in resource forks and have them used by, say, a custom filesystem browser?
File thumbnails, as well as full-size previews (which are displayed when you tap the space bar), can be generated dynamically by Quick Look plugins for any file type that they're registered for. The thumbnails do not need to be stored in the file, although you can certainly use pregenerated thumbnails if they're already in there.
For more information on Quick Look, please refer to Apple's Quick Look Programming Guide.
I am pretty new to Magento and I had a quick question.
I am struggling to understand how I can upload an image straight from my desktop to my website via the Magento backend without adding it to my FTP client first, and it still show up on other peoples computers when they access the website?
To elaborate on this, in the backend location System/Configuration/GENERAL/Design/HTML Head/Favicon Icon, to add the Favicon Icon you simply search your desktop for the image you want, were with other images, I have to add them to my FTP client first. Why is this and what happens if I were to delete the chosen Favicon Icon off my desktop, would the image still appear on my website?
Thanks
Short (only?) answer: Magento is fairly inconsistent when it comes to administering these specific files. Some options (favicon, email logo, logos for PDFs) can be uploaded directly via form input in System Configuration. Others (such as header logo) cannot.
If I were forced to explain the logic (though I'm not sure it's intentional): favicon, email logos, and PDF logo image assets are not subject to theme design factors such as element layout and CSS. Whereas this is the case though I would think that Magento would not provide the option to change the path for the header logo.
I have created a custom template and skin for my multilingual magento website, my skin folder have this tree:
/skin/frontend/mysitename/default
How to use multilingual images and buttons ??
Thanks a lot.
As far as I am aware, there is no built-in support for multilingual buttons and images other than to use different designs for different stores (w/ the translated buttons in the skin for them). You could also try to convert the images to use regular text (like the submit buttons in Magento, by default) that can be translated on the fly.