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Joomla! with Flash

Build a stunning, content-rich, and interactive web site with Joomla! 1.5 and Flash CS4

  • Build an attractive web site integrating Flash objects into Joomla!
  • Create stunning photo galleries with Flash transition and animation effects
  • Use interactive Flash-based maps, charts, animations, videos, MP3 players, logos, headers, and banners in Joomla!-based web sites
  • Turn your Joomla! web site into a feature-rich multimedia enhanced site through this step-by-step easy-to-follow guide enriched with screenshots

In Detail

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.

What you will learn from this book?

  • Create Flash objects and choose some popular flash tools for working with them
  • Set up a development environment with Apache web server and Joomla!
  • Embed and display flash movies inside Joomla! contents using a simple video flash player
  • Provide better user experience by adding streaming videos, animations, and other interactive objects inside Joomla! modules and articles
  • Create attractive Flash-based menus for your Joomla! web site
  • Build stunning photo galleries with Flash animation effects and display photos on your Joomla! web site from a Flickr account using third-party extensions for Joomla!
  • Display interactive Flash maps on a Joomla! web site using YOS amMap extension
  • Show the contents on your site in any font even though the font is not installed on your computer using sIFR3 technology
  • Transform your Joomla! site into a streaming media site using Jvideo! extension to embed videos in Joomla! contents
  • Create mind maps based on your Joomla! site’s structure with the help of Joom!FreeMind component
  • Convert your Joomla! site into a music station using a Flash-based MP3 player
  • Customize your Joomla! template to display Flash logo, header, and banners
  • Display Joomla! contents in Flash objects using amfPHP and J-AMFPHP extension for Joomla!
  • Maintain and troubleshoot your Joomla! and Flash web site
  • Improve the overall design and look & feel of the site, with the help of Flash templates and tickers in Joomla!

Approach

This book is a fast-paced step-by step-guide. It is loaded with examples and lots of illustrations showing configurations and their results on the screen.

Who this book is written for?

If you are a Joomla! web developer who wants to integrate Flash into your web sites, then this book is for you. Knowledge of Joomla! and basic knowledge of Flash is assumed.

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The Joomla Admin Manual: A Step by Step Guide to a Successful Website

The Joomla Admin Manual: A Step by Step Guide to a Successful Website

This book is about Joomla (1.0.12), the popular open source content management system. It’s a step by step guide to creating a successful web site. As well as a general overview of the CMS, the book explains the trickier concepts of setting up a Joomla site. Lastly the manual examines more general topics like how SEO can be maximized with Joomla and how to create specific types of site.

The book is aimed at those that are using Joomla to create a web site, either for themselves or web designers doing so for their clients. It’s easy to read and low on technical jargon. It doesn’t assume you know PHP, CSS or any other technical acronyms.

The author, Barrie North has a rich background in education (a former teacher) and is a partner of joomlashack.com, a provider of professional templates and custom Joomla services. He also runs one of the most popular blogs about Joomla, compassdesigns.net. His combination of Joomla expertise and engaging writing has produced a book accessible to everyone.

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Website Design Guide to Joomla! 1.5, Virtuemart & Extensions

Website Design Guide to Joomla! 1.5, Virtuemart & Extensions

Have you always wanted to build a website, but did not know the first thing about HTML or programming? Do you have a website, which you are held hostage by your website design company to do updates? Do you want to get into Open Source, PHP, Web 2.0 and 3.0? This guide is designed for anyone in the world who owns a business or who wants to build a website but doesn’t know how to start. Open Source is your key to the future. Open Source software automates a majority of the tasks of developing a website down to the point, where you just add content and the code is handled for you. Everything is point and click, it couldn’t be easier. Joomla! 1.5 and Virtuemart are Open source software packages available free on the internet for building professional websites.

Website Design Guide walks you through how to build a Website with forum capabilities or a Website with Ecommerce capabilities to sell products to your customers. You can have a beautiful looking professional site in a few hours. Be ahead of the curve and learn about Open Source through Joomla! and Virtuemart.

This book covers:

  • Installation,
  • Setup,
  • Configuration,
  • Content creation,
  • Search Engine Optimization
  • Organization of your content
  • Ecommerce setup
  • Building a Forum
  • Working with extensions
  • Walk through a live website development from start to finish.

This book is for everyone in the worlds, who wants to build and control their website without spending thousands of dollars to do.

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Joomla! 1.5 & Virtuemart Websites for Sports and Clubs

Joomla! 1.5 & Virtuemart Websites for Sports and Clubs

Do you run a Sports Team, Club or Park District? Are you tired of not being able to make changes to your website, because you have to go through someone else? Have you always wanted to build your own site for your organization? Have you thought of building a website but the costs were to high from professional web firms? Those problems don’t exist any longer. Take control of your website and get into Open Source.

Joomla! 1.5 and Virtuemart 1.1 allow you to build your dream site in hours with little investment. Joomla! 1.5 and Virtuemart make it easy for you. Included in this book is 1 Free Logo design a $150 dollar bonus through CorporationGRAPHIC (www.corporationgraphic.com) and 3 months free webhosting with support through Spiderweby (www.spiderweby.com) for you to test out your new Open Source skills. Also, 5% of all profits will be donated to an Open Source not for profit per month. We at CorporationGuru can’t make it any easier for everyone in the world to get hooked on Open Source.

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