Great images and video engage users. And great content can be the difference between success and failure. As a developer, you probably spend not an insignificant amount of time creating, manipulating and optimizing your media to ensure a powerful user experience. The path to engaging content is much more than resizing and formatting. The journey requires good insights and strong data to drive decisions about user consumption. We launched ImageCon for developers and creators like you. Our aim is to host a day where we can come together on all things digital media and learn from other innovative developers and creators who will share their tips, tricks and tools for managing images, video and other forms of media.
In this part, I'll show you how to implement our new responsive images solution, which enables you to optimize the image you deliver based on the requesting device's resolution and the available dimensions. This new feature can help you to simplify the many complexities of creating multiple variants of every media assets, with on-the-fly manipulation and fast delivery through the CDN.
We’re very excited to announce our new partnership with eZ Systems. Developers leveraging eZ’s open source Content Management Platform, eZ Platform, can now use Cloudinary's award-winning solution to deliver more responsive websites and applications that improve customer engagement.
From time immemorial, information and communication has been critical to society. Over time, the means and methods of communicating has evolved considerably, starting with storytelling amongst the early men to print in the 1600s.
When you need to build small custom web components that can be used across all frameworks - Angular, React, Vue vanilla JS and others - Stencil is an ideal tool. Stencil enables you to create platform-independent components that can be exported as a true web component and used anywhere.
China’s internet usage numbers in recent years are simply staggering. According to KPCB internet trends, China has more than 700 million mobile internet users, 2.5x larger than the United States entire internet market! and more than the U.S., U.K., Germany, Japan, Italy, France and Canada combined. More insights on China’s internet surge can be found here.
Most web analytics only look at page interactions. But what happens when the major content on your page is a video. You want to know when and how long your users are interacting with your media, when they paused to take a closer look at your media content and when they skipped some content because it wasn’t relevant to them. These - along with a lot of other reasons - are why you should not only analyze open/visits rates, but also drill down in the media content.
As a mobile developer, enabling users to upload images and share them with other users is a very common requirement. When developing those capabilities, we need to take into account that most users won't think twice about uploading the massive images that their high-resolution mobile cameras capture. Those huge files are not only overkill for on-screen display, but can also cause significant slow downs in upload and delivery times. And of course those same users wouldn't think twice about complaining or abandoning our app if their overall user experience wasn't smooth and fast.
My work demands that I stay away from my phone and mobile notifications in order to be as productive as possible each day. It’s not unusual to find me at my desk for a total 12 hours a day (I work remotely), with four hours going to browsing the internet.