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Joomla! 1.5 Multimedia

By : Allan Walker
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Joomla! 1.5 Multimedia

By: Allan Walker

Overview of this book

Joomla! is a content management system designed to organize and deliver content within a web site environment. Multimedia provides us with stunning interactive user experiences and wonderful design options, but it requires discipline and knowledge to utilize it effectively so that we do not alienate our audiences. If you want to display more than just text on your Joomla! pages, this book has been designed for you and is a must-read. It takes you beyond the basics of Joomla! and helps to take full advantage this powerful CMS structure to deliver media-rich web content to your site users.This book provides detailed information and all the required know-how for Joomla! administrators to create engaging media-rich Joomla! web sites. Utilizing core Joomla! features and the power of Joomla! Extensions, this step-by-step guide will show you how to include popular media elements into your web site and collaborate with external web resources.You will learn everything you need to know to present text, images, video, and audio in your content both by manually embedding content and using more automated methods. You will learn to create regular podcasts and utilize RSS to help publicize and deliver your site content.Learn about the popular Multimedia Extensions for Joomla! Learn how they benefit your CMS with additional features and how they are installed and configured. Utilize the abundance of external resources now available on the Web. Learn how your Joomla! site can interact and present web content from external resources such as YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, and Google.This book teaches all you need to know to take your standard Joomla! CMS and turn it into a feature packed and media-rich web site. It highlights the benefits of Multimedia features and warns of the accessibility issues that can arise when they are misused. Follow step-by-step tutorials for implementing popular media elements into your site and learn about the accessibility of these resources and how to utilize them effectively with accessibility in mind.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Joomla! 1.5 Multimedia
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

Chapter 4. Adding and Managing Image Content

Next to text content, images are one of the most utilized multimedia resources in web pages. They can be used to inform and educate the reader, offer help with navigation, and to enhance the design and user's overall visual experience.

Whether you need to create multimedia image galleries in your Joomla! website or simply add images to your articles and modules, this chapter will provide the assistance to help utilize image content effectively within your Joomla! website. We look at:

  • Why we use images in websites

  • Image formats and which ones to use

  • Including images in articles and modules

  • Creating image galleries and slideshows

  • Template images

  • Joomla! Image Extensions

  • Browser support and accessibility for images

Images and why we use them in websites

Research suggests that images enhance learning by illustrating the concepts visually and by providing visual memory cues to the viewer. We have been using images to describe, tell stories, and record history...