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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)

HTML5 resources


There are many resources on the web where one can find information about HTML5; specifically, we chose to note the following:

  • http://html5doctor.com: A website and a blog, which aims to educate and promote HTML5 spec through articles hosting HTML5 elements resource information

  • http://caniuse.com: A website that provides information about desktop and mobile browsers capabilities, around HTML5

  • http://www.html5rocks.com: A website and blog that is run by HTML5 advocates and web developers, who work at companies like Google, deusingntART, Adobe, Incapsula, and others, who aim to promote HTML5 through articles, tutorials, and other online resources

For those who wish to boost their HTML5 knowledge through the means of professional and focused books, you can find the following books by Packt Publishing, among many others: