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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

Issues related to Joomla!


The best place to search for solutions for problems related to Joomla! is the Joomla! forum at http://forum.joomla.org. First, search the forum for the problem and its solution. If you do not find a similar problem reported, then register with the forum and post the problem to the forum. As the Joomla! community is very large, you may expect to get the solution quickly. The more descriptively and clearly you report your problem, more are the chances of getting the correct solution quickly.

The Joomla! forum has many sections, and it is convenient to browse to the relevant sections. For example, if you suspect that the problem on your Joomla! site has been caused by a particular component, then visit the Extensions | Components section of the Joomla! forum.

Problems with installation of extensions

In Joomla! 1.5, you can install all the extensions from one place, Extensions | Install/Uninstall. However, in Joomla! 1.0.x, you need to select different screens based on...