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Joomla! 1.5 JavaScript jQuery

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Joomla! 1.5 JavaScript jQuery

Overview of this book

Ever wondered how all the great-looking, feature packed, amazing Joomla! sites are made? Would you like to add image transitions, popups, scrolls, AJAX forms, image galleries, no-page reloads to your website, but are worried that they will be difficult to implement? To make any Joomla! site look more professional, interactive, and interesting you need the ease and power of jQuery.This book will help you to use the jQuery library with the Joomla! CMS. It will take you through adding jQuery functionality to the Joomla! CMS and show how to use it to make the modules and themes more dynamic, interactive, and responsive, and add effects to your Joomla! site.The book starts by showing a plain Joomla! site without any JavaScript enhancement or features, then accompanies you through the process of site enhancement.First you will learn how to make use of third-party extensions to include jQuery features into your site. These can be image galleries, jQuery powered menus, tooltips, and many, many more. Later on you will learn how to modify your template to add some features to your Joomla! site, You will also learn to build your own jQuery-powered Joomla! extensions, and how to pack them so that you can use them in any project you like. Further, you will learn to create your own modules and components.By the end of this book, you will have learned how to enhance any Joomla! site with JavaScript and jQuery.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Joomla! 1.5 JavaScript jQuery
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Summary


This has been an engaging chapter, and I really hope you have enjoyed it. All the effects and plugins we have seen can be studied further. The possibilities of the Parallax effect are almost endless, and not much needs to be said about the scroller and tooltip plugins. These can be useful on almost any site.

However, in this chapter, I didn't want to show you everything about these plugins, but just show the things that can be achieved with jQuery, some other great plugins, and by working on just the template.

In the next chapter, we are going to create our own modules and extensions, but remember, a lot of work can also be done on the template. After the next chapters are over, it will be up to you to decide if you want to create an extension, modify the template, or search for an already developed extension.

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