Suggestions

Hi,

we just bought Econa and would suggest you some improvements that could be really usefull for many users. Actually Econa is not usefull for our purposes.

That's the main problem: our customers need to manage easly intro and extended article images. They don't know anything about resolution, image size, etc..., they just take an image from somewhere (internet for example) and upload this image as intro and extended joomla article image. Usually those images that they upload are not optimized.

Ok, Econa will resize those images (width and height, but it seems that image weight after resize is very bad, not good compression) but it just override the original file setting the new size. Also if we use the same image for intro and extended article it will use the same resized image. At least I would expect 2 different images renamed for intro and article. But that's not all, because to have a good website for different device, it's good to have different images of different sizes used according to the device (mobile, tablet, desktop).
So need to improve different image sizes according to different devices (desktop, tablet, mobile). That's the big point indeed.

The solution in my point of view, that I would suggest you to implement in Econa, is:

• user assign an intro image in the joomla article (loading from server or uploading) -> Econa set 3 different image sizes renaming them as namefile_intro_L, namefile_intro_M, namefile_intro_S; possibly using a good no-lossy compression;

• Econa ask user if he wants to delete or leave the original image (uploaded or already in the server): this can save server space;

• Econa assign those 3 different images according to the device (if mobile for example will load the namefile_intro_S; this will improve loading for small screens where we don't need (and must not) load images bigger that the screen resolution.

• the same thing for the extended image article but in this case with the suffix "ext" for example: namefile_ext_L, namefile_ext_M, namefile_ext_S;

• the same process could be adopted for any image loaded also inside the article via WISIWIG editor, so for any image uploaded Econa will generate 3 different size of the same image and will assign it to the right device (small images for small screens, etc...); would be perfect if it can work with JCE Editor, Tiny etc...

• it would be fantastic if Econa would handle any image uploaded by the Joomla media manager (or JCE editor, etc...) and do the process that I described above;

• the 3 images could be putted into 3 auto created subfolders of the the original image folder: for example if we put original image in the forlder images/test, thenEcona could create 3 folders images/test/L, images/test/M, images/test/S and put the 3 different resolution images into the relative folder for a better images structure.

• finally an Econa gallery/slideshow responsive, managed with those 3 different image size, automatically assigned to 3 different devices (mobile, tablet, desktop), would be faboulous... :-)

That's what we really need, and I'm sure that this is one of the actual thing that Joomla need to handle correctly images specially for the clients.

We really hope you will consider those improvements if possibile.

Thanks in advance.