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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 the content in any font using sIFR


If you have ever designed a website, then you know how frustrating it is to decide on the fonts to be used. The font you use for the text on your website will be rendered properly only when the users have the same font installed on their computers. As an alternative some designers try to use images with fancy fonts, and some also like using Flash. However, replacing text with an image or Flash is a big compromise as these are not indexed by search engines. It also hampers accessibility. To solve this problem of typography on the Web, a Flash-based technique known as Scalable Inman Flash Replacement (sIFR) is used. sIFR works as follows:

  1. 1. You identify the text to be replaced with sIFR.

  2. 2. A JavaScript runs to check whether Flash is installed on the user's computer. It then checks the markups that you have used to enable sIFR.

  3. 3. If Flash is not installed or JavaScript is not enabled, then the web page is rendered in plain HTML as per your markup...