Book Review - "Drupal Multimedia" by Aaron Winborn

Drupal multimedia and multimedia capable web sites has been an interest of mine for a while now and this book helped me to focus my efforts, select from the more popular modules and even presented some alternates. I even went as far as revisiting possible Drupal WYSIWYGs to use as I had been using the simple user interface up till now. Now I have multiple Content Types, some for using TinyMCE and more advance tagging (HTML tagging not social tagging) of content, and the others use the simple user interface with no tagging at all. For me it's all about having choices.

This is definitely not a Drupal book for beginners, I'd say intermediates or better; you have to be comfortable moving through a Drupal site via administrator menus, checking module dependencies and reading up on and through existing module documentation on the Drupal site to get it all to work right.

I also liked the alignment with other popular modules such as CCK (which a book could be written for alone), jQuery Media, Asset and Media Mover.

And finally code. Small short and simple PHP code snippets (that you can download) that help or enhance are always welcome, as well as explanations of what results they will produce. Not about feeding someone's ego, but practical and useful, I recommend this as a buy if the above description fits your bill, current project, interests or knowledge level.

# Paperback: 264 pages
# Publisher: Packt Publishing; 1st edition (October 30, 2008)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1847194605
# ISBN-13: 978-1847194602