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Working With CSS Images

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Working With CSS Images

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.

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How Quality and Quantity can go Hand in Hand

When it comes to quality versus quantity, you’ll often hear people say, “It’s the quality that counts, not the quantity”. While that’s true in many situations, there are also cases where you want both quality and quantity. You may have thousands of images on your website and you want them all to look great. This is especially important if your website allows users to upload their own content, for example, to sell their own products or services. You don't want their poor quality images to reflect badly on your brand.

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Bombas Strengthens E-commerce Footing

Founded in 2013, Bombas is a leading apparel brand whose website serves as a primary sales channel and a conduit for fulfilling its mission to help destitute, at-risk, and homeless people. With comfort as a key attribute for its products, Bombas is dedicated to donating them to those in need. For example, shortly after launching the company, Bombas’s founders learned that socks were the most popular item at homeless shelters and spearheaded the mantra of “one purchased = one donated,” donating a pair of socks for every pair sold. Also, Bombas introduced “the most comfortable T-shirt” with the same donation match last year. So far, the company has given away more than 40 million pairs of socks and T-shirts.

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Levi's Builds a Virtual Showroom for Wholesalers

Levi's Footwear & Accessories is a division of Levi Strauss & Co., a major apparel company and a global leader in jeanswear, which also designs and sells casual wear and related accessories for men, women, and children under the Levi's®, Dockers®, Signature by Levi Strauss & Co.™, and Denizen® brands. Levi Strauss products are sold in more than 110 countries through chain retailers, department stores, online sites, and approximately 3,200 retail stores and shop-in-shops.

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Associating Media Files With Laravel’s Eloquent Models

Laravel, currently the most popular PHP framework, offers databases an efficient, well-written Active Record implementation, called the Eloquent Object-Relational Mapper (ORM). Specifically, Eloquent maps a database table to an Eloquent model along with fluent methods and expressions for querying and modifying the database’s records.

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Automating File Upload and Sharing

As computer users, we constantly upload files, transferring them from one system to another over a network. You can perform uploads on a terminal, such as through the SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) or Secure Copy Protocol (SCP), File Transfer Protocol (FTP) clients, or web browsers. Generally, you upload files to move data to a server or a managed service like cloud storage, but you can also send files between distributed clients.

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