We have seen that one of the uses of Flash in Joomla! templates is as a header. By using a Flash animation in a site's header you can create some stunning effects. As we have already seen, while designing the template, we may embed Flash animation in the header region and control the layout using an appropriate CSS stylesheet. To embed such Flash animations like these, you can use the <object> </object>
XHTML tag. We have seen its use in the previous section. An alternative to this is showing the Flash header at some module position. There are several extensions that can be used for showing Flash objects at a module position. We will be looking at some of them next.
Flexheader3 is a Joomla! 1.5-compatible extension for using Flash as headers in Joomla! sites. This is available for download for free at http://flexheader2.andrehotzler.de/en/download/folder/208-flexheader3.html. After downloading the package, install it from the Extensions |...