Up until now, we have seen how to use Joomla! extensions for displaying Flash animations and slideshows from a bunch of images. While creating slideshows from images, you might have thought about photo galleries. Photo galleries are common to many sites, especially Joomla!-based websites. Many components and modules are available for showing photo galleries. However, for achieving stunning Flash animation effects, you will need to use some extensions that can build and display photo galleries with Flash effects. In this chapter we are going to learn about such extensions for Joomla!. On the completion of this chapter, you will be able to:
Describe some popular Joomla! extensions for building Flash photo galleries
Build Flash photo galleries using Joomla! extensions such as Expose, Ozio Gallery, New Gallery, and Simple Flash Image Gallery
Although there are many extensions for showing Flash-based photo galleries, in this chapter we will discuss only...