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Drupal Multimedia

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Drupal Multimedia

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Creating a Gallery


Our first fictitious example is to create an image gallery for a local artists' co-operative. We have just agreed to set up a showcase site for Seaside Treasures, a shop that showcases and sells works created by local artists. We want to create something that looks nice, is easy for computer-illiterate artists to use, and will be quick to set up (since we're volunteering our time).

Being new to Drupal, having maybe set up a blog or two, we know there are options for image handling. But we also know that those options are not currently built into the core, and that means a visit to the contributed module repository (found at http://drupal.org/project/Modules). Taking a quick look, we're excited by the possibilities offered for displaying images, but overwhelmed by the sheer number of contributed modules listed (over 450 modules in the category of Content Display and over 150 in Media at the time of this writing).

What to choose? Acidfree Albums? Gallery? The aptly named...