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Compressing, Resizing, and Optimizing PHP Images

Topics Guest Post, Performance Optimization, PHP
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Shortcut to Cloudinary’s solution Compressing images is one form of image optimization. Its objective is to achieve the smallest possible file size but no loss in visual quality. This way, you save bytes and improve website performance because the smaller the image…

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Uploading Vue Files and Rich Media in Two Easy Steps

Topics Asset Management, File-upload, Vue
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Vue.js, one of the most popular JavaScript front-end frameworks, is renowned for its simplicity and intuitiveness. Additionally, an active community ensures that plugins or packages, which you can quickly integrate with your app, are available for the Vue.js capabilities. This article steers you through a painless setup process for Vue…

The Object-Oriented Approach to Automatic Image Cropping

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If you’ve come across this post and, based on the title, are expecting insights into object-oriented programming languages, then please forgive me for overloading the term object-oriented. I hope you don’t object when you discover that the objects in this post are not so much the instantiated class types, but…

JavaScript File Upload in Two Simple Steps

Topics Asset Management, File-upload, Javascript
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Uploading software files to the web, mobile, or desktop is as old as the web itself. Billions of files are moved around and downloaded on the Internet daily. Coincidentally, as the de facto language in which many apps are written, JavaScript is also as old as the web. This article…

What's New for Video in E-Commerce, Part 1

Topics Asset Management, E-commerce, Shoppable Video, Video, Video API
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With videos becoming more and more paramount for promoting online sales, we at Cloudinary Labs are building technology to help grow the business of e-commerce retailers. This series of blog posts delves into a few use cases that promise to boost retail revenue online across the patron’s browsing…

Image Optimization for Websites: Beautiful Pages That Load Quickly

Topics Asset Management, Performance Optimization
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The goal of website image optimization is to efficiently serve them online. Properly optimized web images result in improved performance, which makes viewers happy. It also makes search engines happy since priority rankings are given to faster pages. You can optimize web images in many ways. Some of them…

Securely Uploading Images to Cloudinary by Email With Heroku and Sendgrid

Topics Asset Management, File-upload
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Despite United States founder Benjamin Franklin’s wisdom that three can keep a secret if two of them are dead, you as developers often need contributions from third parties for your project. However, in today’s digital world, security in software development is a predominant concern. With respect to management of rich…

Ultimate HTML5 Video-Player Showdown: 12 Players Compared

Topics Guest Post, HTML5, Video, Video API, Video Player
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Before diving into the popular HTML5 video players, it’s essential to acknowledge the broader ecosystem of tools and technologies that complement and sometimes offer alternatives to these players. For instance, Vime stands out as an open-source media player library built with Svelte, offering a modern approach to media playback. Libraries…

ImageCon 2020: A Digital Experience

Topics ImageCon
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Despite our disappointment at the cancellation of our fourth annual ImageCon conference in late April due to the pandemic, we forged on and are thrilled to announce a digital version of ImageCon on Monday July 27 through the 30th, an excellent forum for learning from our customers, partners, and colleagues.

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