For want of a better description i've just starting writing my first
real pre written script for others to use called www.phpgb.co.uk
A problem I have is I have nothing to compare it with and can only
really guess at what the punter does or doesnt want .
The first website I seen that used my script was a indian restaurant in
australia and the webmaster used a background image so it fits into the
rest of their website - hope their curry skills are better than their
script hacking skills :-)
Taking a wild guess I would say about 20% of users will want to use a
background image and as i've installed lots of other peoples pre written
scripts myself I know its not always easy to edit or change stuff like
that if you dont really understand what it is you are editing .
The tip ? .
Give the user the optional option of specifying a background image in
the config file so its only a single line that needs changing to achieve
the effect .
none OR url(blah.jpg)
To my way of thinking , This means theres less chance of a inexperienced
user hacking around your script and changing stuff for the worse so its
looks terrible .