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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)

Drupal 8 tour guide


Once you’ve loaded up Drupal 8’s installer in the browser you will see that it is pretty much the same as Drupal 7, in terms of UI as well as installation options where you can choose different install profiles and setup database configuration.

When the installation process is finished, Drupal’s landing page looks as follows, and you will immediately notice that the administrative toolbar has been shrunken to take up less space.

Another important aspect of theming that you can immediately notice is that the default theme has been made responsive from the ground up and now, loading up your Drupal website from a mobile device will actually render into a usable user interface. The administrative tool bar menu items have been stripped out of their descriptive texts and the overall layout has shifted into a single column view to make sure everything fits into the screen.

Another layout related change that we can notice in the landing page is the contextual editor. By clicking...