[request_ebook] Drupal Multimedia

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 Module
      • Gallery 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 Images
    • Embedded 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 Overlays
      • Flash 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 Clips
    • Alternatives
  • 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

• Mobile Web
• New Media
  • Virtual Reality
    • Second Life
  • Tactile Media
    • Wii
  • Embedded Smell Field?

• Summary