Using a watermark in a Morfik application...

As I mentioned before, Morfik AppsBuilder 2.0 introduced several new design oriented features. Among these features are the ability to create fully transparent forms and to regulate the opacity of individual controls. By combining these two new features you can very easily create a watermark effect for your application or website.

The following picture shows a sample application I am updating to take advantage of Morfik 2.0 features. As you can see it uses stylized world map as its watermark.

To achieve this result I stated by creating placing an image control within a container and loading it with the picture chosen for the watermark.  This image had its opacity dialed down so that it would show through some of the white background, fading the image which would otherwise get in the way of the user actually reading the text.

To complete the effect forms with NoColor selected as background were used in conjunction with rectangles which had their own opacity died down so as to provide a good enough background for reading the text but not totally hiding the watermark.  Though you might be tempted to use containers instead of rectangles that would not be a good idea.  In the case of rectangles, when you lower the value of their opacity all included controls have their opacity level reduced as well.

Now that you have seen the sort of effect that can be achieved I you try it out for your self to see just how far you go in creating an application which is both aesthetically pleasing and functional, at the same time.