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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)

HTML5 in Drupal


With the growth of HTML5, modules are beginning to ramp up. They utilize HTML5 features like support for a geolocation field, video and audio media elements, and online drawing, through the canvas. It's not all about modules, but also themes are already available to provide up-to-date support with HTML5 standards such as responsive design through the use of media queries, structuring the HTML page itself, and much more.

We'll examine a Drupal module, which adds support for some of the HTML5 fields that we covered (it introduces other HTML5 capabilities, but we can focus on the fields for now). The module is called HTML5 Tools and we'll download and install Version 7.x-1.2 (http://drupal.org/project/html5_tools), but notice that it depends on the module (7.x-1.3) too, which we'll need to download and install as well (http://drupal.org/project/elements) for HTML5 Tools to work.

After installing both modules we will proceed to add some HTML5 fields to the rezepi content type...