Joomla! has a built-in menu management system that enables us to create multiple menus with many menu items. The menu management system in Joomla! is quite mature and easy to use. However, we may need to use Flash menus to make these menus look attractive. Flash menus may have several animation effects that prove to be nice for building more interactive websites. At the time of writing this book, very few extensions were available for adding Flash menus to a Joomla! site. However in this chapter, we have learned about two extensions that can help a website developer in adding Flash menus to Joomla!-based websites.
We have seen how to use the Flash Floating Menu module to add a menu with Flash animation effects. In this module we simply provided the menu icon images, links for these icons, tips for the icons, and finally, we published the module. There were also global configurations that we configured using the component.
We also saw the use of another commercially licensed extension...