Here is a quick recipe that uses Drupal's Feed API, Feed Element Mapper, CCK and the Embedded Media Field to create independent embedded video nodes on your Drupal site by RSS. This is our first screencast and first contribution to the Drupal Dojo, hopefully you will find this interesting and try it out yourself. As usual, feedback is greatly appreciated, and follow along at Drupaltherapy.com for discussion on this recipe.
Drupal website developers are often called upon to help website users easily format text when they create new pages or nodes. HTML is the preferred way to format text but users don't always have proficiency with the markup language and sometimes prefer to have an interface that formats their HTML language for them - not unlike the formatting buttons in Microsoft Word. This screencast covers one method of adding easy HTML formatting to your Drupal website with the Wysiwyg module and the open so...
Drupal websites generate some ugly URLs filled with jargon and serial numbers. Wouldn't it be nice if Drupal site administrators could automatically generate more personalized URLs? Look no further because with the use of the Pathauto and Token modules you can make it happen. This screencast covers one method of automating the creation of URLs for each node on your Drupal 7 website. To make the best use of this screencast you should have basic knowledge of Drupal 7 site configuration including...
You can add the ability to store and display date information in your Drupal 7 website with the use of the Date and Calendar modules, which in turn depend on the Views and CTools modules. Here is one quick demonstration of how you can enable and configure these modules in order to let your users post information that contains dates. To make the best use of this screencast it would be awesome to have some prior exposure to the Views module for Drupal. You should also have working knowledge of D...
Drupal'c sontributed module pool includes some options for storing and displaying geographic information. The GMap and Location modules, part of the geocoding module stack known as Mapadelic, is a great way to get started mapping content in geographic space. This screencast covers the basic setup to create your own node locations map.Prior experience with Drupal 6 core will help you follow along with this lesson.
Adding dated information to your Drupal website has been a fairly confusing process until recently with the release of the Date and Calendar modules for Drupal 6. Here is one quick demonstration of how you can enable and configure these modules in order to let your users post information that contains dates. To make the best use of this screencast it would be awesome to have some prior exposure to the Views module for Drupal 6. You should also have working knowledge of Drupal including the ins...
Slideshows are a slick way to maximize your screen real estate and add pizzaz to your pages. Here is a fast lesson on creating slideshows using the Views module and the Views Slideshow module. The Views Slideshow module provides a new slideshow display to any view that now uses jQuery to display screens of content on a rotating basis. Slideshows can be text, photo, video, or any sort of node or field you can sort in a view. Users can even pause the slideshow just by hovering the mouse over the...
Here is a fast lesson on one of the ways of hosting video on your own Drupal website. In order to understand this screencast the best you should have working knowledge of Drupal including the installation of contributed modules and exposure to the Content Construction Kit (CCK). The Filefield and jQuery Media modules are a one-two knock out combination for allowing users to upload media files to fields in your custom content types and then playing back the media files in their matching player ...
This screencast demonstrates the recipe for Imagecache and Imagefield (for CCK) to build a system for posting images on your Drupal website. This is a robust and flexible system for handling images and has a bright future with more modules born every day that tap in. This micro-lesson depends on prior understanding of the CCK module and the Views module. This example uses Drupal 5 since the Image* modules for Drupal 6 are not officially released (yet).