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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)

WYSIWYG


WYSIWYG stands for What You See Is What You Get and in the computer world this term is mostly associated with WYSIWYG editors. These are web based editors with support for text mark-up capabilities, such as bold, italic, underline, bullet points, and more, that transform an ordinary HTML text input into a rich text editor, such as Microsoft Word.

While it's possible to think of web applications that may not require WYSIWYG-like capabilities, it still is a prominent element in most Drupal sites for areas such as forums and blogs which makes it a desired component among site builders.

An example for a WYSIWYG editor (which we will learn more about later in this chapter) is the CKEditor library that aims to ease the creation of web content by enriching HTML text input with a tool-bar for text formatting.

Demo of CKEditor (http://ckeditor.com) in action for site content editors:

In regards to the WYSIWYG editor, taking a closer look at how our rezepi entry looks like, we can tell that the...