As well as image size warnings that appear when using the Crop/resize Image wizard. The system provides warnings of oversized content when using the CMS.
Oversized Product Images
Oversized Images in the Drag-drop and Contentbox editors
If an uploaded image is oversized by a large degree, the Image Properties popup will provide a warning about this and prompt to use the crop wizard.
Note: The editor does its best to replicate the image dimensions as they appear in the live website, in some cases due to the template code, this may not be 100% accurate so please use as an indicative guide.
Using the style editor to learn the dimensions of any element (images included)
If you want to get an understanding of an elements dimensions, you can use the Style Editor (RED COG icon) to get an approximate size. (SIZE EST). You can also view image properties via the Image Settings (RED CHAIN) icon.
With image properties you get the estimated size area along with the images original dimensions.
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Here are the correct file formats and sizing requirements for uploading images to your website.
The stylemodal popup provides some information about the size of your uploaded image and its size in the website
The crop image wizard can help you to crop the display area of a set of images at once for image dimension uniformity.
By default images scale to fit the available column width, but if your image is smaller than the available area you can disable the scaling using the crop icon.
You can use the cropping engine when uploading or editing an image to permanently crop the image to a fixed height and width
With the Drag-drop and Contentbox editors you can add a colour overlay to your image.
As well as image size warnings that appear when using the Crop/resize Image wizard. The system provides warnings of oversized content when using the CMS.
One option to reduce the file size of large images is to resize them. This will not crop the image only change the dimensions/quality of the image.
Why are my thumbnail images so blurry? This depends on your website template, and layout chosen, along with thumbnail settings.
You can add alt text via the SEO area of the Style Editor popup
Here is how to add alt text to images when using the TINYMCE editor.
Banner images set via the DESIGN > BANNER area can have Alt-text applied.
It is possible to have the text wrap around images in the Drag-drop and Contentbox editors.
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