If you would want to have dynamic images on your site, the server in which you host it ought to have the proper software for that. As an alternative to using static images with a fixed size, you may have thumbnails and automatically resized images in accordance with the device a visitor uses or you can even flip and invert images using a script application. All of these things are possible with ImageMagick and GD library - 2 pieces of software that can be installed on a hosting server and that work with a large amount of frequently used scripting languages such as: Perl, Python and PHP. In this way, you may use images with any web-based application you'd like, irrespective of the language it was developed with - a custom-made Perl script or a PHP one. The two libraries will permit you to work with over a hundred different image formats like GIF, PNG, TIFF, JPEG, etc.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Shared Web Hosting
ImageMagick and GD Library are installed on our revolutionary cloud website hosting platform, so no matter which of our shared web hosting you choose, both apps shall be available and activated as standard for your new account. They're part of the software setting for your sites regardless of the PHP version that you choose since we supply a few different releases. Any kind of custom or ready-made script app will be able to use the libraries so as to generate thumbnails of your images or graphs from simple text. Determined by the type of your website, you will also be able to offer various solutions for your visitors - interactive galleries, real-time image modifying software on a social network website and so on.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Servers
You can run every script app which requires GD Library or ImageMagick to generate graphs or use images, as both are installed and activated as standard on the cloud hosting platform where all semi-dedicated server accounts are created. Even if you change the PHP version for your account, you will not need to do anything to re-enable these libraries as they shall be accessible all of the time. In this way, you've got numerous alternatives in respect to what features both you and your site visitors can employ, regardless if you are writing the site code yourself, you employ one of our pre-installed script apps or you download and set up some application which you have found on the Internet. You will be able to use all of the popular formats for the images which you upload.