title: Magento new product widget image resize
body: <p>I'm running magento with a custom template. I have been trying for the past week to enlarge the image size of the new product widget (whether grid or list) to be 232px width and 280px length. I have successfully located the new_grid.phtml and new_list.phtml files at
  app/design/frontend/base/default/template/catalog/product/widget/new/content.
  I have also changed the images sizes from I think 85px width and 85px length to my desired 232px width by 280px length. Instead of enlarging the frame of the image and the image itself, the image seems to be enlarged but the frame remains the same at 85px 85px. So then you are only able to see a small portion of the image within the 85px by 85px image frame. 
  The widget I'm talking about is the new product widget that you can insert from the CMS pages. I'm running magento community edition 1.7</p>
  
  <p>Here's the code snippet for the new_grid.phtml. Any help is appreciated. Thanks</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;div class="widget-products"&gt;
  &lt;?php $_columnCount = $this-&gt;getColumnCount(); ?&gt;
      &lt;?php $i=0; foreach ($_products-&gt;getItems() as $_product): ?&gt;
      &lt;?php if ($i++%$_columnCount==0): ?&gt;
      &lt;ul class="products-grid"&gt;
      &lt;?php endif ?&gt;
          &lt;li class="item&lt;?php if(($i-1)%$_columnCount==0): ?&gt; first&lt;?php elseif($i%$_columnCount==0): ?&gt; last&lt;?php endif; ?&gt;"&gt;
              &lt;a href="&lt;?php echo $_product-&gt;getProductUrl() ?&gt;" title="&lt;?php echo $this-&gt;stripTags($_product-&gt;getName(), null, true) ?&gt;" class="product-image"&gt;&lt;img src="&lt;?php echo $this-&gt;helper('catalog/image')-&gt;init($_product, 'small_image')-&gt;resize(232,280) ?&gt;" width="232" height="280" alt="&lt;?php echo $this-&gt;stripTags($_product-&gt;getName(), null, true) ?&gt;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
              &lt;h3 class="product-name"&gt;&lt;a href="&lt;?php echo $_product-&gt;getProductUrl() ?&gt;" title="&lt;?php echo $this-&gt;stripTags($_product-&gt;getName(), null, true) ?&gt;)"&gt;&lt;?php echo $this-&gt;helper('catalog/output')-&gt;productAttribute($_product, $_product-&gt;getName() , 'name') ?&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
              &lt;?php echo $this-&gt;getReviewsSummaryHtml($_product, 'short') ?&gt;
              &lt;?php echo $this-&gt;getPriceHtml($_product, true, '-widget-new-grid') ?&gt;
              &lt;div class="actions"&gt;
                  &lt;?php if ($_product-&gt;isSaleable()): ?&gt;
                      &lt;button type="button" title="&lt;?php echo $this-&gt;__('Add to Cart') ?&gt;" class="button btn-cart" onclick="setLocation('&lt;?php echo $this-&gt;getAddToCartUrl($_product) ?&gt;')"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;?php echo $this-&gt;__('Add to Cart') ?&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/button&gt;
                  &lt;?php else: ?&gt;
                      &lt;p class="availability out-of-stock"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;?php echo $this-&gt;__('Out of stock') ?&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
                  &lt;?php endif; ?&gt;
                  &lt;ul class="add-to-links"&gt;
                      &lt;?php if ($this-&gt;helper('wishlist')-&gt;isAllow()) : ?&gt;
                          &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="&lt;?php echo $this-&gt;getAddToWishlistUrl($_product) ?&gt;" class="link-wishlist"&gt;&lt;?php echo $this-&gt;__('Add to Wishlist') ?&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
                      &lt;?php endif; ?&gt;
                      &lt;?php if($_compareUrl=$this-&gt;getAddToCompareUrl($_product)): ?&gt;
                          &lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="separator"&gt;|&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="&lt;?php echo $_compareUrl ?&gt;" class="link-compare"&gt;&lt;?php echo $this-&gt;__('Add to Compare') ?&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
                      &lt;?php endif; ?&gt;
                  &lt;/ul&gt;
              &lt;/div&gt;
          &lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;?php if ($i%$_columnCount==0 || $i==count($_products)): ?&gt;
      &lt;/ul&gt;
      &lt;?php endif ?&gt;
      &lt;?php endforeach; ?&gt;
  </code></pre>