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Joomla! 1.5 JavaScript jQuery

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Joomla! 1.5 JavaScript jQuery

Overview of this book

Ever wondered how all the great-looking, feature packed, amazing Joomla! sites are made? Would you like to add image transitions, popups, scrolls, AJAX forms, image galleries, no-page reloads to your website, but are worried that they will be difficult to implement? To make any Joomla! site look more professional, interactive, and interesting you need the ease and power of jQuery.This book will help you to use the jQuery library with the Joomla! CMS. It will take you through adding jQuery functionality to the Joomla! CMS and show how to use it to make the modules and themes more dynamic, interactive, and responsive, and add effects to your Joomla! site.The book starts by showing a plain Joomla! site without any JavaScript enhancement or features, then accompanies you through the process of site enhancement.First you will learn how to make use of third-party extensions to include jQuery features into your site. These can be image galleries, jQuery powered menus, tooltips, and many, many more. Later on you will learn how to modify your template to add some features to your Joomla! site, You will also learn to build your own jQuery-powered Joomla! extensions, and how to pack them so that you can use them in any project you like. Further, you will learn to create your own modules and components.By the end of this book, you will have learned how to enhance any Joomla! site with JavaScript and jQuery.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Joomla! 1.5 JavaScript jQuery
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Summary


We have reached the final point of the chapter; hope you had a good time reading it. We have seen quite a lot of things in it. However, the most important fact is that we can take a plain component and enhance it by using jQuery plugins to achieve a very interesting result.

Some of the plugins we have used, such as the textarea autogrow, form tips, and the equal size columns, are not visually impressive, but help us make our site more usable and appealing to the users.

Others, such as pagination plugin, are very important these days, as they greatly enhance the usability of our component. Lastly, we have used an image plugin; these are visually appealing, and so our component looks really good.

Of course, the component can be further enhanced. However, maybe the things we have seen in the chapter have given you some ideas. Just take the component code and try to modify it and add your favourite plugins to it.