Drupal Multimedia Table of Contents

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

• Index