This week, you'll take your HTTP response and request skills to the next level as you learn how to tackle common use cases such as filtering returned data to get only what you need and authenticating requests to get data behind a login. In this installment of our series, Building Web Services with Drupal 7, Joe Shindelar will walk you through how to query, test, and authenticate your D7-backed web services.

This week, we're introducing a new series for you module developers out there: Building Web Services with Drupal 7. Why? Because you asked for it. We keep a close eye on the suggestion box and one of your highest voted requests was using Services—and for good reason. Web Services are all the rage right now as the demand increases for the delivery of structured data decoupled from its visual display.

This series is all about helping you get up to speed on Web Services: what they are, why you would want to use them, and how Drupal's built-in tools for structuring data makes it a natural fit for building Web Services, especially with the aid of the Services module. You'll learn how to create a full-featured and custom-made REST API for Drupal-based applications.

To kick things off, Joe Shindelar introduces you to Web Services, REST, and the Drupal contrib Services module in these first four videos:

This week, we'll tame images and audio files as we continue our Working with Media Module in Drupal 7 series with Addison Berry. You'll get a guided tour of the maze of configuration necessary for getting images in-line inside your content, understand how one configuration screen affects another, master text formats, and create custom WYSIWYG toolbars. Then you'll move on to to look at HTML5 and Flash-fallback media players to create a media-rich website that rocks! Get ready to become a master of media in this week's videos:

This week, we're wrapping up our series on Webform Basics. In these final lessons of the series, we'll cover administrative tasks such as security, spam control, and results analysis. Even if you're not using Webform, you'll be able to apply the strategies from the "Adding Spam Protection Using Honeypot" lesson to prevent spam on your site.

This week we wrap up the new theme we've created in the PSD to Drupal Theme series by getting it installed and enabled on our site. We'll double-check our components matching up with our Drupal elements to make sure the theme looks right. Then we spend some time reviewing the work we've done, as well as cover some more topics you may want to look into to take your theme even further.

• Install Your Theme
• Enable Your Theme
• Identify and Theme Components
• Review the Completed Theme
• Next Steps for Your Theme

With this all finished up, next week we'll be taking a look at the Acquia Cloud, before heading into our Working with Media in Drupal 7 series.