Blur and Desaturation Filter for Images by CMSms

Last Updated on Saturday, 23 February 2013 02:09 Written by Nic Bug Monday, 25 February 2013 12:00

One day I was looking for a VERY convenient way to let the user upload images in CMSMadeSimple with nice blur and desaturation filter without using third party tools. I came up with a very smart solution.

First, you might want to take a look to a real life example: http://www.endlich-urlaub.de/
As you can see, the background image is b/w and has a slight blur on it. The source image for processing is:

Merging Text and Image in Newsletter Made Simple

Last Updated on Tuesday, 19 February 2013 06:16 Written by Nic Bug Monday, 18 February 2013 12:00

I’m always looking for a nice and convenient way to apply complex imageprocessing to images without making use of third party tools. This time I want to apply a ramp and a textlayer to a campaign image in newsletter made simple. This tutorial is for experts!

We take this image:

How To Add a Nice Toggle Function to Reveal More Content

Last Updated on Sunday, 9 December 2012 10:29 Written by Nic Bug Sunday, 9 December 2012 12:00

One of my clients needed a convenient solution to apply collapsible content. So came up with a neat idea. You can see it in action here.
It is very easy to implement.

1. Add jQuery Javascript library at least from Google code in your page template (before tag):

How to Add the Tagging Function to CMS Made Simple Modules Part 2

Last Updated on Tuesday, 29 May 2012 01:35 Written by Nic Bug Monday, 11 June 2012 12:00

In Part 1 we have learned how to assign multiple keywords (tags) to entries of CGBlog Module. Now I want to show you how to retrieve these tags in order to make them visible and clickable in the frontend and browse our entries by them.

We need a new “Summary Template” in CGBlog Module. Call it as you want like “Tag-Summary” and insert the following code (major code is just copied from sample):

How to Add the Tagging Function to CMS Made Simple Modules Part 1

Last Updated on Friday, 30 November 2012 06:15 Written by Nic Bug Wednesday, 6 June 2012 12:00

Tagging is a common and well known feature in Blog Software like WordPress. But unfortunately, it is missing in CMS Made Simple. In this article, I will show you how to add the feature into any module. You can see it in action here.

To understand how it works, I take CGBlog as our desired module in this case. I split the tutorial in two parts because we need new functions in the backend to let the author enter some keywords (tags) and we need the frontend management of the tags. Let’s start with the backend configuration.

Install CGBlog and dependencies first. Then go to CGBlog and add a new “Field Definition”.