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Tom Geller - Drupal 6: Online Presentation of Data

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Tom Geller - Drupal 6: Online Presentation of Data

Type: Digital download

Format: [1 DVD (ISO)]

Drupal 6: Online Presentation of Data

By: Tom Geller

Released: July 1,2009

Description:

Drupal’s built-in data presentation tools offer several ways for web designers to clearly and attractively package their data. In Drupal 6: Online Presentation of Data, Tom Geller explains how Drupal handles data so users can set up intelligent structures and implement them with Drupal’s Content Construction Kit. Tom also shows how a data-driven web site can improve its interactivity by using geographic data to connect real-world addresses to maps. Exercise files accompany the course.

Table of contents

Introduction

  • Welcome 1:12
  • Reviewing requirements 3:35
  • Using the exercise files 3:11
  • Touring examples of data visualization 4:58

1. Learning How Drupal Handles Data

  • Planning data structure 8:26
  • Importing and manipulating data 6:40
  • Looking at Drupal’s database 6:13
  • Deciding whether to store personal data as nodes or users 6:37

2. Controlling How Drupal Presents Data Fields

  • Understanding the Content Construction Kit (CCK) 4:57
  • Creating new content types with CCK 7:26
  • Hiding the Body field 2:46
  • Reflecting CCK field data in the Title field 7:28
  • Managing CCK field placement 7:34
  • Exploring CCK’s other features 8:22
  • Using other CCK field types 3:25
  • Adding date information as a CCK field 8:43
  • Including images as CCK fields 10:23
  • Connecting content to existing nodes 5:58
  • Using taxonomies to categorize and group data 5:59

3. Getting the Basics of Views

  • Understanding why views are useful 6:12
  • Using SimpleViews to create basic content views 5:49
  • Diving into the Views interface 11:16
  • Adding fields to a view 7:12
  • Understanding iconic controls in the Views interface 7:15
  • Surveying the Sort, Filter, and Field options in Views 5:40
  • Adding view displays as pages, blocks, and RSS feeds 10:30
  • 4. Changing the Appearance of Views
  • Overriding default settings on view displays 8:56
  • Attaching more information to views 10:57
  • Improving view appearances with grid, list, and table formatting 9:20
  • Surveying other basic display settings in Views 11:03
  • Altering a view’s appearance through CSS 3:18

5. Going Further with Views

  • Importing, exporting, and cloning views 6:09
  • Controlling access to views 7:19
  • Learning from built-in views 5:52
  • Creating views that aren’t based on nodes 10:06
  • Extending views with arguments 10:17
  • Extending views with relationships 7:02
  • Going further with relationships 8:23

6. Working with Locational Data

  • Understanding geographic data 4:26
  • Setting up the Location module 16:20
  • Entering geographic data with the Location module 10:10
  • Displaying basic maps with the GMap module 6:43
  • Integrating the GMap module with Views 9:01

7. Putting Data into Other Forms

  • Exporting data in tabular form 11:25
  • Planning with the calendar modules 11:31
  • Using the Charts module and Google Charts 7:11
  • Graphing data with Open Flash Chart 4:50
  • Making important data pop out with tag clouds 7:46
  • Putting it all together in an attractive package 11:38

Goodbye

  • Conclusion 0:36