Entries in the ‘Quick Tips’ Category

Change ExpressionEngine Image Sizer Plugin to Crop From the Top

Change ExpressionEngine Image Sizer Plugin to Crop From the Top

For those of you that don’t know, ExpressionEngine’s ImageSizer Plugin is awesome. Anytime you have a client that will be uploading content images to a site that need to be certain dimensions this plugin is crucial. It will dynamically resize the image to whatever dimensions you need, and even cache the resized image for you. Also, if you specify a width and a height for the image in the plugin parameters, and the source’s dimensions are different, it will even crop the image for you. This is great, but it also has a downside.

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Semantic Inline Form Labels with JQuery

Semantic Inline Form Labels with JQuery

A very common thing I see in designs I get these days are form labels that are written within the value of their associated input field. This is handy way for designers to save space and make their designs cleaner all-around. Unfortunately for us developers, simply setting the input value isn’t very semantic or usable.

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