If you are familiar with Joomla! templates, then you will understand that there are two ways to display Flash in a template:
By hardcoded embedding of Flash items
By dynamically loading Flash objects at module positions
We have seen many modules that can display Flash objects. Therefore, in this section, we will be looking into the embedding of Flash objects within templates. It will also be helpful if we understand the structure of Joomla! templates.
Generally templates for Joomla! include headers in Flash. Flash animations are included in the header area of a Joomla! template. Some templates include the mechanism to show images from a specific directory. For example, the template shown in the following screenshot, available for download at http://joomlatp.com/joomla-1.5-templates/Templates-has-flash-header.html, is designed to show a Flash header comprised of the images kept in a directory:
The following sections briefly describe the structure of a Joomla! template...