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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)

Summary


By enabling RDF support in our Drupal's website we've made sure that it connects better with other websites, allowing for better interoperability as well as SEO-optimized state of our website.

We have then explored a more visual world of enabling graphical charts with the help of the Views user interface as well as our own custom code where we can tie-in any reports we want by querying the database directly. To make sure these charts render on any modern browser without the use of third-party plugins as well as on mobile devices we leveraged an API which is HTML5-based.

To close this chapter we scratched the surface of advanced theming in the vast world of client-side development where HTML5 plays a key role and learned about responsive web design and how to configure our theme to accommodate this need.

In the next chapter we will further explore image configuration which Drupal provides, as well as examine more tools to empower media content such as enabling a rating mechanism as is...