Aaron Winborn, of Advomatic and Embedded Media Field fame, has completed writing Drupal Multimedia, to be published by Packt Publishing this September (and you can pre-order now)! Packt will be donating a portion of the royalties to the Drupal Association, in keeping with their long-standing policy of supporting the Open Source community.

Written for Drupal 6, this book is a comprehensive overview of integrating multimedia into your Drupal-powered web site. With hands-on examples and tutorials, the book is written for site developers, themers, and administrators. The book makes no assumptions about your skill level, although one should probably already have an understanding of Drupal and how to set up and configure a basic site. The book will guide you through its topics, gently moving the reader from basic concepts such as module set-up, to intermediate techniques such as creating views, to advanced methods such as writing jQuery and custom modules.

Drupal Multimedia is roughly split into three sections, for Images, Video, and Audio. Each section recommends the modules to use for specific tasks, and offers best practices for developing your site.

Images

• Image or Image Field?
• Inline images, galleries, teaser thumbnails
• Scaling & cropping on the fly
• Styling Views, drop-shadows, and more

Video

• Local or external video?
• Media Mover and Asset management
• Embedded Media Field
• File Field, jQuery Media, and more

Audio

• What player to use?
• Embedding audio clips
• Playlist creation
• Creating embed code & more

More!

• Embed Widgets
• Dynamic Image Headers
• jCarousel Slide Shows
• The Future of Drupal Multimedia
• and More!

Aaron and the technical editors (including James Walker - walkah) are now involved in the editing process, ensuring the book reflects the latest and greatest that Drupal has to offer for multimedia. Look for Drupal Multimedia in September, or pre-order it now!

About Aaron Winborn

A developer for over a decade, Aaron Winborn has been working with Drupal for going on his third year now, most of that time with Advomatic, helping to create, theme, and maintain such multimedia-heavy sites as Air America Radio, the New York Obsever, and It's Your Nature for NRDC.

He has contributed many modules to the community, including Embedded Media Field (embedding third party video, images, and audio as a field for nodes), jQuery Media (a full-featured wrapper for the jQuery plugin of the same name), and Views Slideshow (turning any view, not just images, into a jquery slideshow). For fun, he's also developing RPG (an engine for creating RPG games with Drupal), and 5 Second Game (the module that will power the upcoming 5SecondGame.com).

Aaron WinbornAaronWinborn.com (my blog)Advomatic (my work)Drupal Multimedia (my book)

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