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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


There are many popular extensions for Joomla! that can show image galleries with Flash effects. In this chapter, we have learned about some of the popular and freely available extensions for building Flash image galleries in Joomla!. First, we have seen how to install, configure, and use the Expose gallery. Then, we moved on to another popular extension, Ozio Gallery. In the discussion of Ozio Gallery, we have seen that it can display images from a web server's directory as well as from a Flickr account. It has several skins with different effects. We have seen how to configure and use those skins with Ozio Gallery. Next, we moved on to the three simpler extensions: New Gallery, Simple Image Flash Gallery, and Dynamic Flash Gallery. We have seen how to configure and use these components in a Joomla! website.

In the next chapter we are going to learn about some more advanced Flash extensions and do some more exciting tasks, such as displaying maps, adding videos and mp3 players, adding...