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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

The existing Joomla! menu system


Joomla! has an excellent menu system, which can be considered as one of the best menu management systems in the CMS arena. You can build your own menus and display these in different positions as modules. You can see the built-in menus from Menus | Menu Manager. This displays the Menu Manager screen, as shown in the following screenshot:

To create a new menu, click on the New button on the toolbar, provide a name for the menu, and save it. For adding/editing items in a menu, click on the icon in the Menu Item(s) column. This will display the Menu Item Manager screen for that menu as shown in the following screenshot:

For creating a new menu item click on the New button and follow the wizard. It asks you to select a menu type, specify the link and title, and finally save it.

The built-in menu system in Joomla! is quite good and applicable for almost all types of websites. However, for making it an eye-candy, website designers prefer to use some other modules...