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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 6. Using Video in Your Joomla! Website

Video on the Internet is booming! Relatively recent improvements to factors such as superior video compression, increased connection speeds, and better hardware have all contributed to making the Internet a more reliable and accessible environment for the delivery of video content.

This chapter highlights the use of video media within your Joomla! website, and includes the following topics:

  • Video on the Internet

  • Video formats

  • Embedding and displaying video in Joomla!

  • Creating video podcasts for Joomla!

  • Third-party video extensions

  • Browser support and accessibility

Video on the Internet

The terminology, video, refers to the recording, manipulating, and display of a sequence of still images, representing scenes in motion.

Video is probably one of the most notable "media types" that springs to mind when the term multimedia is used. Video is a data intensive media format, requiring megabytes of data to display even short video clips. Limitations such as...