Body Building: Modules You Need to Build Attractive Pages with Rich Content

effulgentsia — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 06:37:57 +0000

You've installed Drupal. Congratulations! You can now create pages and stories that contain text. Sorry, no images. Or video. And if you want the text to be formatted with bold, colors, bulleted lists, or links, you'll need to do that manually, using html tags. At this point, you might be thinking, why all the buzz around Drupal? Is it useful for anything besides creating a simple blog? And if that's all you want to do, scrap Drupal, and get an account on WordPress instead. But then, hopefully, someone fills you in on the secret to Drupal. Despite initial appearances, it's actually super powerful! Anything you can imagine, you can do! There's over 4,000 modules on drupal.org to choose from. All you need to do is figure out which 100 or so you need, and voila, pure website awesomeness!

Speaker bio:

is a Drupal programmer, and developer of the Body Builder module and some other modules. Prior to drinking the Drupal kool-aid 3 years ago, he created custom content management systems, but is now much more interested in improving Drupal than in creating yet another CMS. He spends way too much time thinking about how to best get interesting content into a node.

Make Articles Sing By Embedding Images, Video, and Quote Cutouts with DME and WYSIWYG

jcfiala — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:43:57 +0000

Drupal's basic node structure works well for presenting articles, but sometimes clients want to embed images, video, or other block-like items in the middle of the text, such as top rated comments or a snippet of interesting text from that article.

Speaker bio:

John Fiala has been coding on the web for over ten years, and in Drupal for over two years by the time Drupalcon Paris will start. He's interested in object oriented programming, Javascript, and new ideas for extending Drupal, and has the privilege of maintaining a few modules for it. He lives in Denver, CO with his wife and three cats, and commutes to Boulder to work at pingVision.

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Body Building: Modules You Need to Build Attractive Pages with Rich Content

Make Articles Sing By Embedding Images, Video, and Quote Cutouts with DME and WYSIWYG