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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

Audio and the Internet


Studies show how audio contributes to the human and computer interaction process, providing a more powerful experience than the delivery of text or graphical content.

However, in the early days of the Internet, it was inefficient to deliver a data-intensive format such as audio across our low bandwidth consumer connections. Audio was often placed on websites as digital files, which needed to be downloaded before a separate media player on the computer system performed playback. Finding audio players to play the format of the audio file was more difficult than it now is, and many amateur sites contained simplistic audio files which started playing when the web page loaded.

These were entertaining, but provided the user with no control over the audio, besides turning down their PC speakers! All that said, this was the evolution of audio on the Web, and it is now very different than how we once knew.

The delivery of audio and video have been two important contributing factors...