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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 3. Creating Attractive Menus with Flash

So far we have used the traditional Joomla! look and feel. By this time, we have also learned how to use Flash objects with Joomla! content. In the previous chapter we saw how to embed slideshows with Flash effects, display Flash animations in Joomla! modules and articles, and display Flash videos in content. Now we will see how to change the look and feel of our website. In this chapter we will be looking into changing the menus of a Joomla!-based site. On the completion of this chapter you will be able to:

  • Understand the difference between Joomla! built-in menus and Flash-based menus

  • Make menus more attractive using Flash

  • Use different extensions for customizing menus as per your needs

This chapter assumes that you have basic knowledge of the Joomla! menu system and that you can configure Joomla! menus.

The existing Joomla! menu system

Joomla! has an excellent menu system, which can be considered as one of the best menu management systems in the...