Posted by kranklin on March 19, 2008 at 9:16am
Have themes that could generate images for links so that navigation doesn't have to be plain text, or be able to generate an image for the title of a site or page so its easy to change the title of the site and still have it look fancy.
This could also include being able to customize the image such as by:
- adding an icon - this could apply to a specific navigation item
- setting the text color or font - this could apply to a specific item or be applied to all relevant items such as all page titles or all navigation links
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Textimage module
Most of this functionality already exists through the textimage module. The task could include to improve the module even more, provide context-based modifications (in terms of displaying items in front of the textimage for instance), ...
signwriter
yeah, also http://drupal.org/project/signwriter has been doing this stuff for a while
Somewhat related image manipulation functionality
A project that would be similar in that it involves image manipulation would be a css sprite generator that would work with Drupal themes.
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see http://drupal.org/project/css_sprites and http://drupal.org/project/sprites
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Hmm... so is this already done?
Would this student be better off to pursue another idea?
Yes that would be better,
Yes that would be better, http://drupal.org/project/render is another effort in this direction (includes Sifr). Looks like most if it is already coverd in contrib.