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.

Software works on: Mac and Windows.

Released on: 7/1/2009

Table of contents

Introduction
Welcome 1:12 16.4 MB
Reviewing requirements 3:35 3.1 MB
Using the exercise files 3:11 4.3 MB
Touring examples of data visualization 4:58 9.0 MB
1. Learning How Drupal Handles Data
Planning data structure 8:26 7.9 MB
Importing and manipulating data 6:40 12.1 MB
Looking at Drupal's database 6:13 9.4 MB
Deciding whether to store personal data as nodes or users 6:37 6.1 MB
2. Controlling How Drupal Presents Data Fields
Understanding the Content Construction Kit (CCK) 4:57 7.6 MB
Creating new content types with CCK 7:26 9.3 MB
Hiding the Body field 2:46 4.1 MB
Reflecting CCK field data in the Title field 7:28 12.0 MB
Managing CCK field placement 7:34 11.7 MB
Exploring CCK's other features 8:22 15.6 MB
Using other CCK field types 3:25 4.7 MB
Adding date information as a CCK field 8:43 14.9 MB
Including images as CCK fields 10:23 14.6 MB
Connecting content to existing nodes 5:58 8.2 MB
Using taxonomies to categorize and group data 5:59 6.9 MB
3. Getting the Basics of Views
Understanding why views are useful 6:12 9.8 MB
Using SimpleViews to create basic content views 5:49 8.8 MB
Diving into the Views interface 11:16 15.4 MB
Adding fields to a view 7:12 9.4 MB
Understanding iconic controls in the Views interface 7:15 10.5 MB
Surveying the Sort, Filter, and Field options in Views 5:40 8.4 MB
Adding view displays as pages, blocks, and RSS feeds 10:30 17.3 MB
4. Changing the Appearance of Views
Overriding default settings on view displays 8:56 16.6 MB
Attaching more information to views 10:57 19.4 MB
Improving view appearances with grid, list, and table formatting 9:20 18.2 MB
Surveying other basic display settings in Views 11:03 26.4 MB
Altering a view's appearance through CSS 3:18 6.6 MB
5. Going Further with Views
Importing, exporting, and cloning views 6:09 9.3 MB
Controlling access to views 7:19 15.2 MB
Learning from built-in views 5:52 9.5 MB
Creating views that aren't based on nodes 10:06 18.3 MB
Extending views with arguments 10:17 20.8 MB
Extending views with relationships 7:02 13.6 MB
Going further with relationships 8:23 15.1 MB
6. Working with Locational Data
Understanding geographic data 4:26 7.7 MB
Setting up the Location module 16:20 27.2 MB
Entering geographic data with the Location module 10:10 16.8 MB
Displaying basic maps with the GMap module 6:43 12.8 MB
Integrating the GMap module with Views 9:01 16.7 MB
7. Putting Data into Other Forms
Exporting data in tabular form 11:25 21.4 MB
Planning with the calendar modules 11:31 22.4 MB
Using the Charts module and Google Charts 7:11 11.6 MB
Graphing data with Open Flash Chart 4:50 11.5 MB
Making important data pop out with tag clouds 7:46 16.9 MB
Putting it all together in an attractive package 11:38 25.4 MB
Goodbye
Conclusion 0:36 0.7 MB