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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


In this chapter, we have explored many Joomla! extensions which add different functionalities to our website. We have seen how to use YOS amMap and YOS amChart to create and display interactive Flash-based maps and charts. We have learned about using sIFR with Joomla! to display Joomla! content in fonts that are not installed on users' computers. We have also seen how to use the Flash uploader on a Joomla! site.

There are several good Flash-based video and MP3 players that can be used with a Joomla! website. We have seen how to use the JVideo! extension to embed videos in Joomla! content and transform your Joomla! site into a streaming media site. You have also learned about using some MP3 players, which allows you to play MP3 files on your site using Flash-based MP3 players. At the end, we have seen how to use the Joom!FreeMind component for creating a mind map based on the structure of a Joomla! site.

With these skills of selecting and using different extensions for Joomla! to serve...