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Drupal 6 Content Administration

By : J. Ayen Green
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Drupal 6 Content Administration

By: J. Ayen Green

Overview of this book

Often a company hires a web designer to build its Drupal site, and then takes over running the site in house. This book is for the Content Editors concerned with the ongoing creation and maintenance of the site content. In a few hours, you'll have the knowledge needed to maintain and edit your web site as a content-rich place that visitors return to again and again. There are many books available to help you administer a Drupal site, but this is the only one specifically for Content Editors. This book doesn't cover designing or creating a site. However, anybody who has built their own site but needs some help using the article management features will also benefit from it. This book is a quick-start guide, aimed at Content Editors. The author's experience enables him to explain in an efficient and interactive manner how you can keep your site up to date. The book begins with a discussion of content management and Drupal and then teaches you how to create content, add elements to it, and make the content findable. You will then learn to set up the framework for a creative team and the various options for editing content offline, their benefits and pitfalls. This book helps you to quickly and easily solve problems, and manage content and users for a web site. It will help you become a more effective and efficient manager of Drupal-based web sites.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Drupal 6 Content Administration
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

Embedding video in Node Content


The discussion in the preceding section, Embedding audio in Node Content, regarding the complexities of embedding audio content, will double for video content as well. The differences between video contents like Flash and Quicktime might not only make the player and supporting software different, but also affect the parameters needed to play the content. Some video player modules, such as SWF (the one we're using), can handle several types of content. Parameters such as the width and height of the player are usually supported for any video content, but additional options (background color, buttons on the player, and more) vary greatly.

We will be using the simple video viewer that comes with the SWF Tools module. This has no controls, and will start playing the video as soon as the page loads. More advanced video players, with pause, mute, and play controls, can be installed if your site requires it. Certainly, if you will have a page with several videos...