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Drupal 7 Media - Third Edition

By : Liran Tal
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Drupal 7 Media - Third Edition

By: Liran Tal

Overview of this book

Integrating images, video, and audio content on a Drupal site requires knowledge of appropriate community modules, and an understanding of how to configure and connect them properly. With the power of up-to-date technologies such as HTML5, responsive web design, and the best modules available in Drupal's eco-system, we can create the best Drupal 7 media website. Drupal 7 Media is a practical, hands-on guide that will introduce you to the basic structure of a Drupal site and guide you through the integration of images, videos, and audio content. Learn to leverage the most suitable community modules and up-to-date technology such as HTML5 to offer a great user experience through rich media content. The book begins with a practical introduction to the basic Drupal building blocks. It then breaks down each media resource, and explores them in detail. You will learn how to leverage Drupal's community modules to implement support for images, videos, and audio content, along with the best practices for implementation. We will be mentioning ideas throughout the book, which you can extend upon and use to build your own web applications. We will explore HTML5 support for media resources, the semantic web, and responsive web design, which are key topics in modern web application development. We will then build upon this knowledge and add more functionality to our sample website, such as support for analytic charts and customizing images, all of which we will implement using our own custom modules. You will learn everything you need to know about building, extending, and configuring a Drupal 7 media web application.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Chapter 3. Working with Images

It's time to begin with our very first and long-time media resource on the Internet—images. Images are not only a requirement that a site builder needs to meet according to some spec, but rather they should be thought of from the ground up when designing a website.

On the web, a picture really is worth a thousand words (if not more) as they contribute to a website's lively look and feel. Can you think of Facebook without images? Instagram is a billion dollar venture based solely on taking images and sharing them with your peers. Pinterest is another good example of taking a concept such as bookmarks, adding some eye-candy images to it, and there's another startup for you.

In this chapter we will cover:

  • Adding image fields to custom content types

  • Understanding the Media module for site-wide media resources management

  • Installing and understanding the use of WYSIWYG and text formats

  • Embedding images in content via WYSIWYG

  • Creating image galleries, configuring them, and...