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Joomla! with Flash

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Joomla! with Flash

Overview of this book

You can build any kind of web site using Joomla! The look and feel of Joomla! web sites can largely be customized using the many templates, components, modules and plug-ins available. With all these features, ease of administration, and options for customization, sometimes you may think of integrating other technologies such as Flash with it. This is because Flash provides great animation features that are otherwise not available in Joomla! This book shows how to integrate Flash into Joomla! You will learn how to add the various functionalities provided by Flash and make your site stunning, visually rich, and interactive. The book covers topics like flash headers, menus, displaying and maintaining flash movies, slide shows, animation, interactivity, and more. Installation and use of Joomla! modules like Flash, Joomla Random Flash, Active, and Handy SWF Flash module are covered too. The book introduces Joomla! and Flash and briefly shows the benefits of using Flash in Joomla!. It shows you how to add Flash objects in Joomla! articles and modules, build Flash-based menus, create Flash-based photo galleries, interactive maps, and charts. It also shows you how to display content in custom fonts, create a streaming media site, customize the Joomla! template to display Flash logos, headers and banners, and use Joomla! content in Flash objects. Finally the book covers troubleshooting Joomla! and its extensions. At the end of the book an appendix lists resources on Joomla!, Flash, and related extensions, to help you find more information.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Joomla! with Flash
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
Preface

Showing Flash in modules


There are several modules available that can be used to display Flash objects on a Joomla! site through a module. When displayed as a module, the Flash object can be shown in any module position. The following section describes the use of some of the popular modules for displaying Flash objects on a Joomla! site.

The Flash Module

The Flash Module is a module for adding Flash objects to your website. This is shown as a module and is good for showing a Flash menu, a Flash header, and other animations in module positions. You can download the Joomla! 1.5 native version of this module from http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/flashmod/frs/. The current version for Joomla! 1.5 is version 3.0.2.

Once downloaded, install it from the Extensions | Install/Uninstall screen. Then go to Extensions | Module Manager, and click on The Flash Module. That opens the Module: [Edit] screen for The Flash Module. As usual, from the left side of the screen, you can provide a title for the...