Mastering Images and Galleries e-book

Images are a critical part of modern websites, especially in the publishing world. Whether you are adding more depth to the “about us” page on a basic site, creating image galleries or have a photography blog, Drupal is equipped to power your site.

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Product details

PDF: 45 pages
Publisher: Mastering Drupal; version 1 (December 17, 2010)
Language: English

Book contents

• Part 1: Introduction
• Part 2: Essential image handling modules
  • What is ImageField?
  • What is ImageCache?
  • The two fundamental ImageField approaches
  • How ImageCache works: technical details
• Part 3: Creating and storing images as nodes
  • Creating an Image content type
  • Creating an image node
  • Modifying images with ImageCache
• Part 4: Creating image galleries with Views
  • Views style plugins
  • Create a standard gallery image size preset
  • Terminology
  • Create the Gallery View
• Part 5: Embedding images inline
  • Using core upload module and the inline filter
  • Embedding images from anywhere on your Drupal site with Insert
  • Using FieldField sources 5.4 Improving embedding with a WYSIWYG editor
  • Image power user extras and helper modules