2011-05-11, 20:49:50
Hi folks, thanks for your replies.
I'm a designer rather than a programmer so sadly I don't have the necessary skills to roll my own plugin.
But I'd like to say that as a designer I think this sort of functionality needs to be in the core. Clients need to be able to add their own images in a text block (to float left or right) and it's too much to expect them to have the images sized correctly in advance. You might be able to get them to enter a width into the editor, but that's about as far as it goes in my experience.
Therefore I think the CushyCMS approach to images seems ideal: the dimensions in the editor get passed to a resizing script which results in a genuinely resized image published to the live site. I'd love to find this implemented in a CMS I can host myself, but after much searching I haven't had much joy.
But GS seems like a great CMS in many other ways.
I'm a designer rather than a programmer so sadly I don't have the necessary skills to roll my own plugin.
But I'd like to say that as a designer I think this sort of functionality needs to be in the core. Clients need to be able to add their own images in a text block (to float left or right) and it's too much to expect them to have the images sized correctly in advance. You might be able to get them to enter a width into the editor, but that's about as far as it goes in my experience.
Therefore I think the CushyCMS approach to images seems ideal: the dimensions in the editor get passed to a resizing script which results in a genuinely resized image published to the live site. I'd love to find this implemented in a CMS I can host myself, but after much searching I haven't had much joy.
But GS seems like a great CMS in many other ways.