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Drupal Multimedia

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Drupal Multimedia

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Drupal's Multimedia


The Internet has literally exploded with multimedia over the past few years. We will specifically study images, audio, and video in this book, with some additional discussion of interactive media such as FLASH.

Drupal is well-suited to handling multimedia with its modular structure. However, at first glance on installation, this may not seem to be true. This is by design. The core of Drupal is meant to be fast, light, and scalable. It needs functionalities such as asset management and multimedia display that are provided by contributed modules, which must be added onto its core by developers and administrators. Finally, theme developers (or Themers, as these people are commonly referred to in the world of Drupal) take the resultant display and change it to meet the specifications for the site, matching content to compositions.

Due to the dichotomy between the light feel of Drupal core and the overwhelming dread of scouring through hundreds of contributed modules, the need has arisen for a book such as this, which will demonstrate how best to create a site that harnesses the power available for multimedia handling. But firstly, we need to understand the basics offered by the Drupal core and a few essential modules.