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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

About the Reviewers

Jose Argudo is a web developer from Valencia, Spain. After finishing his studies, he started working for a web designing company. After six years of working for that company and others, he decided to start working as a freelancer.

Now, after some years have passed, he thinks that it's the best decision he has ever made, a decision that lets him work with the tools he likes, such as Joomla!, CodeIgniter, CakePHP, JQuery, and other well-known open source technologies.

For the last few months, he has also been reviewing some of the books for Packt Publishing, such as Magento 1.3 Theme Design, Magento: Beginner's Guide, Magento Development with PHP, Joomla! SEO, and Symfony 1.3 Web Application Development.

If that weren't enough, he is also writing a book on CodeIgniter for Packt Publishing — a book he is putting all his efforts on.

Sonia Muñoz is a web developer from Spain. She has completed the Superior Computer Systems Management course and is now willing to start with another of Superior Development's computer application courses. She has worked with tools like PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, jQuery, JavaScript, CodeIgniter, Joomla, Photoshop, and Dreamweaver.

After finishing her studies, she would like to set up her own web development business.

I dedicate this book to my father-in-law, Abul Hossain