If you would want to have dynamic images on your website, the server in which you host it needs to have the correct software for this. Rather than using static images with a fixed size, you could have thumbnails and automatically resized images depending on the device a site visitor uses or you could even flip and invert images using a script application. All these things are feasible through ImageMagick and GD library - two pieces of software that could be set up on a server and that work with a great number of popular scripting languages such as: Perl, Python and PHP. This way, you can use images with any web-based application that you would like, regardless of the language it was designed with - a custom-made Perl script or a PHP one. The 2 libraries will permit you to work with over one hundred different image formats including GIF, PNG, TIFF, JPEG, etcetera.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Hosting

Both ImageMagick and GD Library are available and activated as standard on our innovative cloud web hosting platform, so your scripts will be able to use them regardless of the Linux hosting that you select when you join us. This will allow you to set up multimedia websites without having to worry about any technical limitations on our end. If you have a portfolio site, for instance, you can have dynamically generated thumbnails of the pictures which show your work, while in case you own a social network or a similar site that engages the visitors in some way, you will be able to offer them a variety of editing options for the pictures they upload. You can also convert text to images, which will provide you with numerous opportunities regarding what content you can offer on the website.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You will be able to execute every script application that requires GD Library or ImageMagick to generate charts or work with images, since both are installed and enabled by default on the cloud website hosting platform where all the semi-dedicated server accounts are created. Even though you may upgrade the PHP version for your account, you will not need to do anything to re-enable these libraries as they'll be available all of the time. Thus, you will have a number of alternatives in respect to what functions you and your site visitors can use, regardless if you are writing the website code yourself, you employ one of our pre-installed script apps or you download and set up some app which you have found online. You'll be able to employ all the sought-after formats for the photos which you upload.