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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

Summary


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...