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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 5. Flashier than Ever: Maps, Charts, Custom Fonts, Multimedia, and More

There are many possibilities of using Flash in a Joomla! website. We have explored some of these methods in the earlier chapters. We have seen how to embed Flash objects, Flash videos, and so on. In this chapter we will get familiar with some other uses of Flash on our Joomla!-based website. On completion of this chapter you will know how to:

  • Use the YOS amMap extension to display interactive maps on your Joomla! website

  • Use the YOS amChart component to display interactive graphical charts on your Joomla! website

  • Use sIFR3 to display content on your site in any font even though the font is not installed on users' computers

  • Use Flash based video players and build a streaming media site using the JVideo! extension for Joomla!

  • Use Flash-based MP3 players on your site so that users can listen to music and other MP3 files online

  • Visually represent your site's structure by creating a visual mind map using the Joom!FreeMind...