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The newly released Neighborhood CCK module will take the place of Video CCK, replacing that module and expanding it with Video Neighborhood, Image Neighborhood, and the upcoming Audio Neighborhood.

Hi,
I'm very new to Drupal, wasted a week with Joomla before the poor template adaptability to skill ratio got me (all those annoying tables). Have been learning CSS mainly through playing with CSS Zen Garden, though my page is still going through iterations before I get it to do what I want without being able to create different style sheets to compensate for the quirks of different browsers.

Anyway what I want to do is similar to having the extradivs in CSSZenGarden.

So far I've added
- image divs to style.css
with position: absolute;
and width and height 100%;

Hello,

I've created this new Trading group. My goals are similar to those of the Stock group, so I'm posting this to you guys as well.

I'm a trader/programmer who has set up a private site meant to eventually manage a little fund for my friends and family. My current setup allows me to input and browse trades I make, so that I'll later be able to track my progress. Here's what I'm currently using (I have done no custom programming yet):

taxonomy: I currently have "market" and "system" categories. These are heirarchical, so I could have a market called "GBPUSD" with parent "Forex". A system could be a particular setup or signal within a larger system, for example "spinning top" within "chart patterns". I'll be using these taxonomies to browse my trades and judge which trading systems work with which markets, etc. I want to eventually be able to do all kinds of statistical analysis based on these categories.

Far too many months ago, I decided that the design of the Drupal banner module made it too difficult to maintain and began working on an improved replacement. At that time I got as far as defining the database schema, but then life distracted me and the project was left unfinished. In the past couple of weeks I've had a need again for the new ad module, so I've dusted it off and begun implementation. Today I've uploaded an alpha version that can randomly display image ads, tracking how many times the ad has been viewed or clicked. It is a humble beginning, but ready for a few brave alpha testers to give it a try, report problems, review the code, and make suggestions.

The goal of the new module is to provide a simple to install scalable advertising API that offers necessary ad management features such as randomly displaying ads, auto-activation, auto-expiration, limits, notifications, statistics, and ecommerce integration. Different types of ads will be supported through plug in modules, such as the included ad_image module for displaying banners and image-block ads. The forthcoming ad_text module will offer adsense-style text advertising. The API makes it possible for additional advertising types to be contributed later by third parties to display for example flash ads, or externally hosted ads.

I just finished a simple but powerful module that really improves the quality of thumbnails and preview images. It adds a touch of sharpening and converts all derivative images to a color profile of your choice (such as sRGB). This is especially useful if you're using "professional" color profiles such as AdobeRGB since colors often look faded with those profiles if the browser isn't color profile aware.

I know people have been doing sharpening and stuff like this before in Drupal, but I don't think there is a module that does it for you, without patches... until now! All you need besides image.module is ImageMagick.

I haven't uploaded this to CVS yet, 'cause I was hoping that some of you would like to try it out and give me some feedback. Bad spelling, bad name, fundamental flaws? Good stuff? Let me know!

Update: Project added: image_enhanced_scaling

So there is quite a bit of duplicated code and convoluted interfaces for manipulating files. especially images...

imagecache, image, watermark, imageexact, etc, etc are all relatively simple 'filters' or 'processors' for files. I've got different versions of imagecache with various gd filters, image2ascii conversion, mosaic affects, etc floating around, along with some tools for processing quicktime files and front-ends for ffmpeg I'd like to make available to the community, but coding a module for each one would be a real pain, and would make for a rather module heavy drupal...

imagecache is really a proof of concept work for generating images on the fly, but I had to throw the 'preset' and 'action' management interface into it so it could do its good work. I think there is a strong need to sort this kind of processing into its own little library. Actions.module or filter.module would be a good model for a UI I think.