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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)

Extending image style effects


Earlier in this chapter we've seen how basic image effects can be applied to pictures that users upload. We will introduce a new module now that will help us in further extending the effects pool available for users on a Drupal website.

The module in question is called ImageCache Actions, which originates from earlier Drupal versions where this functionality was referred to as ImageCache. Proceed to download (http://drupal.org/project/imagecache_actions) and install it. Notice that this module comes bundled with a bunch of other modules that should be enabled too: ImageCache Canvas Actions and ImageCache Color Actions.

Note

You may wonder what's the point in adding image effects? What is there to it? I'll then remind you of Instagram, a company whose entire product delivery was to enable users to take pictures from their smartphone and apply basic image effects to them. By the way, they recently also added a web application to accompany their mobile app product...