Good Crop, Bad Crop—don't lose your head over website images
Are you tired of chopping off people's heads? Does sizing, cropping and adjusting your website images feel like an exercise in frustration?
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If your web images are zapping your joie de vivre, or they’re making your site bulky and slow for your viewer—or both—I have just the solution for you. Guess what? It’s Craft CMS. Awesome for so many reasons, one of which is its seamless image functionality.
Here’s why you’ll love how your Craft website handles images:
Massive, bulky, slow images, no more.
Do you take pictures with your iPhone, then upload them? Do people send pictures for you to add to the website? Most of the time, these images are huge—and you may not even realize it—until it starts to slow down your site. Cell phones take enormous photos if you didn't know!
Just because you change the pixels, doesn’t mean you change the file size! Changing the dimensions of a 5MB image still leaves you with an image that’s 5MB (just with smaller dimensions).
Luckily Craft CMS auto-magically resizes your image and file size so you don’t have to worry about manually resizing your images and potentially slowing down your page. Remember, speed is everything! Especially now that most people are viewing websites via phones and relying on often-weak cellular networks.
GIF, JPG or PNG, no problem! Not sure which format to use? Don’t worry. Craft knows—based on field or gallery-type—which type of image is best-suited for a particular place. It will automatically convert your image to that format. Piece of cake.
Focal point made simple. An image might look great on your computer monitor, but when you view it from your phone, you realize it’s chopping someone’s head off. Not great marketing etiquette, right? With a Craft website, you can choose your focal point, so no matter which device your audience is viewing from, they’ll see the most important part of the image.
SEO-ease. With Craft CMS, we can also make it easy to add alt-text and captions to your images which will improve both SEO and accessibility.
Built-in image editor. Craft’s built-in image editor allows you to crop and resize images manually prior to upload. You’ll never need to open another image editor such as Photoshop!
All of this image-magic is done without any third-party integrations. It’s all native to Craft. Everything you need, in one place.
Let’s work together
If you’re ready to have a website where uploading, resizing and integrating images lets you exhale, let’s get Crafty.
—Jim Woodman
Founder & Director of User Experience
P.S. Want to learn more about why we only use Craft for website design? Here’s why Craft will make your website a pleasure.
Praise
Jim and his team responded quickly to all suggestions and exceeded expectations on all fronts. The team at Clearpeak worked with us to completely redesign and modernize our website in a way that is user friendly and does all the we require and more! We now have a site that is easy to navigate, mobile-friendly, and customizable for whatever may come.Nicole Piermarini, Acting Director, Leominster Public Library
Jim and his team responded quickly to all suggestions and exceeded expectations on all fronts. No request was too big or too small. They’ve even worked with us after the project was completed to provide additional support as needed. We highly recommend them!
Our site was a mess! Jim and his team came in and walked us through the process of completely rethinking our site. Now we have a very logical, clean and well-utilized site that is the ‘go to’ place to find out anything and everything about our research alliance. This was super important since our enterprise covers several institutions, academia (Emory and GeorgiaTech) and a private non-profit hospital (Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta).Barbara W. Kilbourne, RN, MPH, Manager, Business Operations, Atlanta Pediatric Research Alliance
Working with Clearpeak was great! They were very flexible and patient when our project took longer than planned. Their work was meticulous and they were great communicators. We highly recommend them!Ben Hires, Director of Programs, Boston Children's Chorus
We couldn’t be happier. Clearpeak understood exactly what we needed for our site redesign. The new design is clean, accessible, and user-friendly. Clearpeak is easy to work with and quick to respond to questions and requests. We couldn’t be happier.Madeline Bergstrom, Assistant Director of Marketing and Communications, Landmark College
Our sincere thanks to Jim and his team! Working with Jim and his team from Clearpeak on the redesign of the Westwood Public Library's website has been a thoroughly enjoyable experience. Jim's technical expertise and understanding of public libraries were invaluable as we navigated new territory with the redesign of the library's website. Jim and his team are collaborative, responsive and knowledgeable, and their guidance and support enabled us to successfully launch our new Westwood Public Library website.Tricia Perry, Director, Westwood Public Library
The site looks great and works perfectly on both desktop and mobile. The Clearpeak team worked with us to design a site that is visually appealing, user-friendly and includes all of the functionality we required. Content is easy for our non-technical staff to create and update, and easy for our users to navigate. It was a pleasure to work with a team that was efficient and responsive throughout the entire design and launch process.Susan Paju, Head of Reference, Acton Memorial Library
Visits have skyrocketed! Our Library's website design committee consisted of several people, including volunteers, who had a variety of skills. Jim patiently demonstrated and trained the group to have appropriate levels of hands-on or administrative authority. Jim managed everyone at their level. Throughout the website's design, each member of our committee wanted to create a superior website and continually sent Jim suggestions, ideas and revisions. He acted quickly on each of these, guided us, and understood our goal. We couldn't be happier with the result and continue to receive praise for the appeal and content of our website.Elizabeth Johnston, Director, Sherborn Library
Jim Woodman and his team at Clearpeak are a pleasure to work with. We have hired Clearpeak to work on multiple website development projects. Every time, they deliver great front-end designs as well as high-quality back-end coding.Steve Collins, President, Webb Communications, Inc.
The Content Management System work that Clearpeak has done on each site has also been excellent — making it easy to keep site content updated.
I would highly recommend Clearpeak to any organization looking for a highly-experienced interactive agency capable of delivering great work.
Our new website is so much faster and easier to work with. The time it takes to update a page has been cut in half and we have so many more editing options at our fingertips. We’ve had a great experience working with the Clearpeak team and they’ve responded immediately to any requests we’ve had.Carly (Doyle) Allen, Communications Manager, The Northeast ALS Consortium (NEALS)
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