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After a brief break from our video schedule, we are back on track this week, picking up the trail on the Using Drupal Chapter 4, Media Management series. In these three lessons we'll take a look at how to get media into the body of our content, instead of as a separate field in our nodes. We'll look at what general solutions are out there for web development, by taking a look at tools like BUEditor, Markdown, and CKEditor and explaining what WYSIWYG is all about.

You may have noticed that we don't have any new videos out for this week. We're taking a short break in our video production schedule so that we can focus on our brand new site that we just launched last week. We're really proud of the work we've done, and we've gotten lots of great feedback from our members. We still have a number of outstanding bugs we need to iron out, and our plan is to keep rolling out bug fixes this week. So keep your eyes peeled for more cool stuff on the way!

Well, last week we launched the new version of our website, and while overall the feedback has been great, we also realize that we had a few mistakes on the site as well. We've been working hard to nip lots of little bugs over the last week, and we've also heard your feedback about watching the videos that belong to a series. I'm happy to say that we've just pushed a release that addresses some of our most pressing feedback.

We launched our new site this week! It was a lot of work, and there is still a ton more work to do. We decided to get on podcast episode #30 and talk about what the process has been like for us, and share some of what has changed on the site, along with some lessons learned. If you'd like to hear more about various aspects of the site, or our upgrade process, please do let us know, and we'll try to get it into another podcast soon.

We redesigned the site and upgraded to Drupal 7! A lot of the site and features remain the same, but we do have some changes we'd like to point out.

Last week we started off two new series on Media module, each covering a different major version. This week we are plowing ahead with the Using Drupal Chapter 4: Media Management series, which covers Media version 2.x. These lessons will give you an overview of the Media Module and the various things it will do for us. After that, we're going to dive right in to building our music review site by building out the review content type, and playing around with our field display to make sure things are looking the way we intend.

We're happy to give you Episode 29 of the Drupalize.Me podcast, with Christophe Galli and Miro Dietiker, to talk about Translation Management. This is a great project, available as a module on Drupal.org, that works with various multilingual modules to help you keep your site translation organized. There are a lot of moving pieces in a multilingual site, and these guys have been up to their elbows with it for a long time.

This week we are starting off two new series at the same time to cover a very important topic for web sites today: Media Management. Almost every site out there needs to work with media in some way, whether it is just uploading images in your blog posts, or having to work with audio and videos in a variety of ways. In Drupal 7 the Media module has become the go-to solution for handling the full range of media needs.

In Episode 28: Getting Excited for Drupal 8 - The Donkey, Human, Ant, Chameleon CMS, Larry Garfield and more join us.

Today we finish up the Importing Data With Migrate and Drupal 7 series. In four hours of lessons we've covered everything from Migrate module concepts to writing your own custom data migration. To wrap things up this week, we are going to take a look at using other data sources, like CSV files, as well as different destinations aside from nodes.

Drupal 8 has come a long way since Drupal 7 to being easier to use out of the box. When I built sites for people using Drupal 7 the biggest complaint was the lack of a WYSIWYG editor. At some point installing WYSIWYG module and adding an editor role just became part of my usual installation of modules. This process wasn't complicated, but it was rather annoying.

First you had to install the module, then download the third party WYSIWYG files from another website. Once you had all the components you needed, you then had to setup text formats to use the editing interface, and also configure the role for your content managers to assign correct permissions. My favorite part of the process was the web page of check boxes of buttons you could add to the toolbar. The page was hideous and not very configurable if you'd added any extra add-ons to your WYSIWYG.

It is that time of the week when we publish a new Drupalize.Me podcast. You're excited. We're excited. Unfortunately we don’t have one for you today. We recorded a great podcast on getting involved with Drupal 8 with Joe Shindelar, Juampy, Alex Bronstein, and Larry Garfield. It was a fun podcast talking about all the new things that excite us about Drupal 8. Somehow the final recorded audio file turned bad about 10 minutes into it. Normally we have a fall-back plan which involves two people recording the podcast.