Drupal modules (Part II)

Enviado por DaveBV el Dom, 07/26/2009 - 13:50.

Following the previous post, now it's time for modules which functionality is displaying information. These modules are useful when you want to apply styles, add badges, insert images, etc.

  • Cumulus: you get a tag clud in 3D (like the one in the sidebar). With color, size customization, etc.
  • Inline: allows to add the attachments to post inline with the text.
  • ImageCache: together with inline, this module is a powerful image manipulator. You can set up profiles for scaling, resizing and adding effects to your images and display them differently depending on the pages. (For example, small image in teaser, and big one in full post). This module also integrates with CCK, and filefield (I will talk in a separate post about this).
  • Lightbox2: eyecandy way to show images. For example, if you click in a post image, you will experience this effect.

And an extra module I made myself:
Custom CSS and JavaScript files: this module allows us to add CSS and JS files to theme or add extra behavior to our site by just uploading our js or css files to a folder. This folder is totally customizable. I use it for example for customize the twitter block css, or add positioning to the taxonomy images.