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Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5

By : Hagen Graf
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Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5

By: Hagen Graf

Overview of this book

<p>Joomla! started as a fork from Mambo in 2005, when many of the original developers of the Mambo CMS moved to working on Joomla! It has rapidly grown in popularity and, according to its own description, is a "Cutting Edge Content Management System and one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management systems in the world. It is used world-wide for anything from simple homepages to complicated corporate websites. It is easy to install, easy to manage and very reliable."<br /><br />While the Joomla! CMS has the flexibility and power needed for complex, full-featured web applications, it is also simple to use to create basic websites. Its powerful, extensible template system can deal many different data types and control of user access, approval of content, scheduling of content display, and rich administrative controls are all included.</p>
Table of Contents (29 chapters)
Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5
Credits
About the Author
Preface
3
A Tour of Your New Website
5
Configuration of Joomla! Administration
Online Resources
Template Modules
How Do I switch an Image (Logo) in the Template?
Joomla! API
Forgot the Admin Password
Security Without Global Variables
Index

Exposé Flash Gallery


Image galleries and video uploads are becoming more and more popular in today's Web 2.0 world. Applications such as Flickr's photo platform (http://www.flickr.com/) and YouTube's video platform (http://www.youtube.com/) make it easier for an individual to publish multimedia content in today's increasingly broad-banded Internet.

The expectations of design are also getting higher and higher. A simple listing of photographs is now considered to be a bit outmoded.

Exposé is one of the Adobe Flash-format-based galleries for pictures, graphics, and videos and it is visually outstanding.

Exposé can:

  • Create as many picture albums as you want

  • Compress images during the upload to different image sizes

  • Create thumbnails for the albums

  • Play videos with the Flash Player in a compressed format

  • Add audio commentary to the individual images

A version of Exposé that can be installed on your PC allows you to assemble pictures on your own computer. Due to the compact Flash format, the pictures...