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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

Browser support and video accessibility


Video is a great tool for entertaining and delivering information to your site visitors and is now more common than it ever has been on the Web.

At first thought, it may seem that video is not the ideal media (in terms of accessibility) to have loading into a web page. If used correctly though, video can actually enhance the accessibility of a web page by becoming an additional means to deliver audio and visual content to site users. Due to these combined mediums, video is becoming a useful device for considerably enhancing the accessibility of web pages.

Problems arise, however, when correct text alternatives are not made available, which then makes the video content on the page inaccessible to certain audiences. For example, a video which has no audio content is inaccessible to those who are visually impaired, or to someone who is both visually and hearing impaired, it is of no use at all.

Text equivalents should always be made available wherever...