VELTRA (a wordplay on TRAVEL) is a leading Japan-based travel marketplace with 4,000 international travel-agency partners, offering 27,000 local tours to over 150 destinations worldwide. In addition to featured travel itineraries, the VELTRA site also serves leisure travelers with meticulous support including tips and pointers along with comprehensive and helpful responses to questions.
Watching The Queen’s Gambit took me back in time to a memorable experience 21 years ago, my senior year in high school. To fulfill part of my final-exam requirement for Computer Science, I wrote a chess program in Pascal—a truly enjoyable and stimulating adventure. The algorithm was based on a calculation of the scores of potential moves, with a tree of nodes holding all the options for the current position and the potential responses for each move from the opponent. The total score for each pair of moves determines what the computer does. Due to memory limitation, the tree holds only two levels of moves: one for the current position and the other for the opponent’s potential moves.
After focusing on the business-to-business market for more than 100 years, Babolat embarked on a move to a direct-to-consumer model that integrated e-commerce functionalities. As it began planning a website redesign to support online sales, the team realized that it needed a robust digital asset management (DAM) solution as the foundation of its digital transformation.
Think about the last time you bought something online—and about the last time you did that but what you purchased wasn’t something you were after when you opened your browser. What captured your attention in the search results, the assortment page, or the product page that convinced you to make the purchase?
However, along with the benefits of user-generated content (UGC), comes myriad technical challenges. Content must be moderated to avoid compromising your brand. You need to provide a user-friendly process to efficiently manage content uploads. You need to transform images and videos to ensure brand consistency and web performance. You also need to ensure they look presentable across all devices and browser environments. To help brands address these issues and more, we recently ran a three-part blog series on UGC.
WingTai Asia, a subsidiary of Wing Tai Holdings Limited, is an investment holding company that focuses on property investment and development, lifestyle retail, and hospitality management in key Asian markets. The company is a licensed distributor or sole license distributor for many brands, including Adidas, Cath Kidson, TopShop and UNIQLO, and operates brick and mortar shops to sell these goods throughout Singapore and Malaysia.
With Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), you can style your site and transform the related images. For example, you can create static or sticky positioning for the graphics, define backgrounds and borders, resize, and create cool filters to show off the artistry.
Resizing images with JavaScript (JS) creates nifty effects, many of which you cannot do in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). However, even though you can automate a zoom effect with JS to enable users to zoom in and out of images, limitations abound.
With JavaScript (JS), you can create cool image animations, which are difficult to do with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). This article describes how to—
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To rotate images with JS, edit the CSS transform property. See the procedure below.
You can transform images with CSS image filters, applying popular effects like blur, brightness, contrast, drop shadow, grayscale, hue, invert, opacity, saturate, and sepia. With Cloudinary, image-transformation tasks, such as blurring or pixelating faces, adjusting brightness and contrast, and transferring image styles, are much simpler and often automated. This article elaborates on how to do all that on both platforms.