Drupal multimedia [[electronic resource] ] : create media-rich Drupal sites by learning to embed and manipulate images, video, and audio / / by Aaron Winborn

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910455538903321
• Autore: Winborn Aaron
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Birmingham, U.K., : Packt Pub., c2008
• ISBN: 1-281-88701-3; 9786611887018; 1-84719-461-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (264 p.)
• Collana: From technologies to solutions
• Disciplina: 808.0427
• Soggetti: Web site development; Web sites - Design; Database management; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview; Drupal's Multimedia; Drupal's Building Blocks; Nodes; Regions and Blocks; Themes; Contributed Modules; Content Construction Kit (CCK); Custom Content Types; Fields; User Permissions; Creating Content; Views; View Administration; Creating a New View; Basic Settings; Page Views; Advanced Views Options; Advanced Theming; Adding a New Theme; Basic Template Files; Custom Regions; Theme Function Overrides; Template Files Revisited; Summary; Chapter 2: Images for Admins and Editors; What Does Our Site Want?; Creating a Gallery; Image ModuleGallery Categories; Image Size Settings; Image Gallery Settings; Gallery Alternatives; A Brief Note about Image Toolkits; Teaser Thumbnails; Image attach; Image attach Content Settings; Attaching Images to Content; Images Embedded in Content; HTML; Image Assist; WYSIWYG; WYSIWYG Alternatives; Summary; Chapter 3: Developing for Images; Image Node: The Traditional Method; Multiple Images; ImageField: Flexible, Powerful, Useful; Widget Field Settings; Global ; Settings; Managing Fields; Creating Custom Content; Display Fields; Block Views; Resizing and Cropping; ImageCache; Third-Party ImagesEmbedded Media Field; Views for Galleries and Slideshows; User Images; Taxonomy Images; Summary; Chapter 4: Theming Images; Styling a View; Investigating a Theme; Firebug; Theme Developer Module; Overriding Image Nodes; Image Effects; Rollover Menus; Slicing Images; Cascading Style Sheets (CSS); Drop Shadows; LightBox; More Eye Candy; Magnification; Star Ratings; Watermarks; Slideshows; Summary; Chapter 5: Third-Party Video; Third-Party Video Providers; Embedded Media Field; Summary; Chapter 6: Local Video; Local Video Files; FileField; Theme Your Video; Preprocess Hook; Thumbnail OverlaysFlash Video Players; jQuery Media; Logo Overlays; Inline Local Video; Summary; Chapter 7: File Asset Management; Node Referenced Files; Theming Node Referenced Videos; Asset Module; Media Mover; Media Mover Processes; Media Mover in Action; Kaltura; Summary; Chapter 8: Audio Nodes; Audio Formats; WAV Lossless Format; MP3 for Music; Open Source OGG; Encoding Audio; Audio Module; Submitting Audio Content; Metadata; Audio Players; Summary; Chapter 9: Audio Fields; FileField Remixed; jQuery Media to the Rescue; External Audio; Summary; Chapter 10: Theming Audio; Node Referenced ClipsAlternatives; Audio Playlists; XSPF Playlists; XSPF File Format; XSPF Playlist; Creating Our XSPF File; Building Our View; Linking Our Links; User-Created Embeddable Playlists; User Playlist Views; Embeddable Audio; Summary; Chapter 11: The Future of Drupal Multimedia; File Handling; Why This Is Profound; Multimedia APIs; Multimedia in the Core; Multipurpose Fields; Image versus ImageField; Content Field is King; Core Fields; User Experience; Administration Interface; Usability Testing; Embeddable Widgets; Semantic Multimedia; Microformats; RDF Triples; Tagging Semantic Multimedia
• Sommario/riassunto: Create media-rich Drupal sites by learning to embed and manipulate images, video, and audio