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CSS image overlays are a common technique for transposing text or images over each other. For example, you can combine images and text on a website when captioning an image, or place a live text element over a button.
As critical as it is to engage with shoppers in order to succeed in e-commerce, old-style, boring emails are far from being effective. In fact, they tend to be annoying because no one likes to read formulaic, generic messages that are sent en masse. For better results, rethink your email marketing campaigns and try out creative strategies.
Imagery and video are proven ways to promote engagement and conversion on e-commerce sites. One study found that 75% of online shoppers say that product pictures are “very influential” for their purchase decisions, with a respondent commenting, “If I can’t see it, I can’t make a decision about it.”
For years, Google has been updating its search algorithm to prioritize end-user experience, displaying the most relevant and helpful content at the top of search results. The latest—and maybe the most significant—update so far is Core Web Vitals (CWVs), which are new metrics announced a year ago that will, starting in June, begin determining search rankings. With this update, Google is being abundantly clear that visual experience of webpages is paramount.
Nonetheless, even if your company has not defined a strategy for a headless architecture—and regardless of whether you plan to use it or not—it pays to familiarize yourself with this highly valuable but somewhat complex approach.
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?
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.
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.
Image effects, which you can set up with CSS, define how images are served to users. This article describes how to create basic effects, image hover, and animated images through parameter configurations in your main CSS stylesheet and—much faster and dynamically—in Cloudinary.
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