Adrian Freed

Drupal modules exist to implement best practices in web interactivity for a wide range of media types.Taming coding bugs, configuration challenges and coherent theming for these modules is a real chore. I will share successful techniques I have employed in developing a recent rich media site covering:

Embedded and uploaded video

Images with flickr-style annotations

Book reviews with Amazon data

Embedded Amazon downloadable audio widgets

Integrated wikimedia content

Syntax-colored code display

Rich text blogging nodes

Twitter upload with advanced trackback and click monitoring

Here is a list of the main rich media modules I use that were presented:

Node form columns 6.x-1.6 Separates the node forms into two columns and a footer

Image Annotate 6.x-2.0 Allows users to add notes and references to users on pictures.

Image FUpload 6.x-3.x-dev Allows uploading several images all at once using swfUpload

IMCE An image/file uploader and browser supporting personal directories and user quota. Required by: IMCE Wysiwyg API bridge

jQZoom 6.x-1.x-dev Enables jQZoom, a jQuery plugin

Syntax highlighter 6.x-1.19 Integrates the Syntax Highlighter Javascript Library to your site.

SWF Tools 6.x-2.5 This is the core component of SWF Tools and provides a common API for handling Adobe Flash related media.

Wysiwyg 6.x-2.0 Allows users to edit contents with client-side editors.

CCK Blocks 6.x-1.x-dev Shows CCK fields as block.

Embedded Video Field 6.x-1.11 Defines a field type for displaying third party videos, such as YouTube and Google Video.

Guitar CCK Field 6.x-1.1 A cck field for guitar chord diagrams

ImageCache 6.x-2.0-beta10 Dynamic image manipulator and cache.

Embedded Inline Media 6.x-1.11 Allows users to embed media into text-areas.

CreateFromWeb 6.x-1.3 create new nodes with data retrieved from the web

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