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.

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

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