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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

About the Reviewers

Jose Argudo is a web developer from Valencia, Spain. After finishing his studies he started working for a web design company. Then, six years later, he decided to start working as a freelancer.

Now that some years have passed, he thinks it's the best decision he has ever taken, a decision that let him work with the tools he likes, such as Joomla!, CodeIgniter, CakePHP, jQuery, and other known open source technologies.

His desire to learn and share his knowledge has led him to be a regular reviewer of books from Packt, such as Joomla! With Flash (http://www.packtpub.com/joomla-with-flash/book), Joomla! 1.5 SEO (http://www.packtpub.com/joomla-1-5-search-engine-optimization-seo/book), Magento 1.3 Theme Design ( http://www.packtpub.com/magento-1-3-theme-design/book), or Symfony 1.3 web application development (http://www.packtpub.com/symfony-1-3-web-application-development/book).

Recently he has even published his own book, CodeIgniter 1.7, which you can also find at Packt's site (http://www.packtpub.com/improve-coding-productivity-with-codeigniter-1-7/book). If you work with PHP... take a look at it!

If you want to know more about him, you can check his site www.joseargudo.com.

Joseph L. LeBlanc is a freelance Joomla! developer specializing in Joomla!, PHP, and JavaScript. Joseph can be found teaching Joomla! classes and speaking at conferences. He has authored a book on Joomla! extension programming and a Lynda.com video series on using Joomla!.