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Joomla! with Flash

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Joomla! with Flash

Overview of this book

You can build any kind of web site using Joomla! The look and feel of Joomla! web sites can largely be customized using the many templates, components, modules and plug-ins available. With all these features, ease of administration, and options for customization, sometimes you may think of integrating other technologies such as Flash with it. This is because Flash provides great animation features that are otherwise not available in Joomla! This book shows how to integrate Flash into Joomla! You will learn how to add the various functionalities provided by Flash and make your site stunning, visually rich, and interactive. The book covers topics like flash headers, menus, displaying and maintaining flash movies, slide shows, animation, interactivity, and more. Installation and use of Joomla! modules like Flash, Joomla Random Flash, Active, and Handy SWF Flash module are covered too. The book introduces Joomla! and Flash and briefly shows the benefits of using Flash in Joomla!. It shows you how to add Flash objects in Joomla! articles and modules, build Flash-based menus, create Flash-based photo galleries, interactive maps, and charts. It also shows you how to display content in custom fonts, create a streaming media site, customize the Joomla! template to display Flash logos, headers and banners, and use Joomla! content in Flash objects. Finally the book covers troubleshooting Joomla! and its extensions. At the end of the book an appendix lists resources on Joomla!, Flash, and related extensions, to help you find more information.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Joomla! with Flash
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
Preface

Chapter 2. Enhance Your Joomla! Content with Flash

Once you have set up Joomla!, configured it for its basic operation, and added some content, you can proceed to enhance the content by adding some extra flavor to it using Flash. We are assuming that by this time your Joomla! site is ready and you have added enough content, have placed the modules where needed, and applied a suitable template to it. With these assumptions, in this chapter, we will learn to:

  • Add slideshows in Joomla! content with Flash animation effects

  • Embed Shockwave animations in the content

  • Display Flash objects on our site

  • Display Flash movies in a separate module

  • Embed Flash movies inside Joomla! content

For the purpose of this chapter, apart from downloading, installing, and configuring Joomla! extensions, you will not need to create any code or develop any module.

Have a look at the site!

Let us have a look at our present site. It is a simple web site made with Joomla! 1.5. A simple, freely available template — JW Clean Pro...