Joomla! 1.5 multimedia : build media-rich Joomla! web sites by learning to embed and display multimedia content / Allan Walker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walker, Allan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Joomla! (Computer file).

Web site development.

Open source software.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (376 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, U.K. : Packt Pub., 2010.

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Walker Allan: Allan Walker lives in the United Kingdom, where he runs "Amplify" http: //www. projectamplify. com, a CMS and e-Commerce Consultancy and Development Company. Growing up in New Zealand, Allan studied Fine Arts, majoring in Photography. An interest in Video soon led to an Editor's role producing a weekly Television programme, with this content being available for Television and Online. In 2000, Allan moved to the UK and started Amplify, a business name for Allan's web consultancy and development services. As well as providing open-source CMS and e-Commerce solutions for companies taking their business online, Allan established a successful e-commerce business of his own, which was sold in 2005. In recent years Allan has been involved with a number of large-scale Joomla! projects, helping to establish Joomla! within the UK Government and Corporate sectors. Allan has been a mentor for the Joomla! Google Summer of Code program. He helps the Joomla! community with Joomla! User Groups processing, and is a member of the Joomla! Marketing TeamDavenport Chris: Chris has almost 30-years experience in the Information Technology field and has extensive experience of software development on a diverse range of platforms and at all levels from assembler to 4th-generation languages. He has been involved in projects for major clients including Royal Life, Bristol & West and British Rail. He became interested in open source software in the mid-1990's and now hardly ever uses proprietary software. He was invited to join the Core Team for the Joomla! TM project in November 2006. He is currently on the Joomla Leadership Team (which superseded the Core Team) and is a member of the Joomla Production Working Group with responsibility for documentation. He holds a BSc (Hons) degree in Mathematics.

Summary:

Build media-rich Joomla! web sites by learning to embed and display Multimedia content

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Getting Started with Joomla! Multimedia; What is multimedia?; Categories of multimedia; Linear; Non-linear; What is Joomla!?; Including multimedia in your Joomla! site; Multimedia use in your Joomla! CMS; Text; Images; Audio; Video; Multimedia and web accessibility; Can a multimedia website be accessible?; The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG); Section 508; More information on web accessibility; Web browser support for multimedia; Summary; Chapter 2: Managing Your Joomla! Media

Overview of the Joomla! Media ManagerUploading media using the Media Manager; Media Manager settings; The view; Organizing your content; Creating a new directory; Deleting files; Uploading your content; Single file upload; Multiple file uploads; Managing media using the Media Manager; Alternative method of managing files and media; FTP clients; FTP programs; Connecting using an FTP program; FTP via a web browser; Connecting to FTP via a web browser; Uploading and downloading; Web browser plugins; Third-party file management extensions; eXtplorer; Joomla! Flash Uploader; Summary

Chapter 3: Text, Characters, and Fonts in Your Joomla! SiteOverview of text, characters, and fonts; Fonts and their effect on website users; Which font is best to use?; Sans-serif fonts; Verdana; Arial and Helvetica; Trebuchet MS; Lucinda Sans family; Serif fonts; Times New Roman / Times; Georgia; Palatino Linotype / Palatino; Joomla! Templates and Cascading Style Sheets; What is a Joomla! Template?; Template CSS; CSS font properties; Meet the units; Alternative methods to use custom fonts in your web pages; Joomla! text and typography extensions; Frontend font size adjuster (M); JsIFR3 (P)

capDropper (P)Browser support and accessibility around fonts; Summary; Chapter 4: Adding and Managing Image Content; Images and why we use them in websites; Image formats and which ones to use; Digital images; Lossy and lossless data compression; Image formats; GIF; JPEG; PNG; SVG; Including images in your content articles and modules; Adding an image using the Joomla! Article Image button; Adding an image using the Editor Image button; Image placement using custom HTML code; Creating image galleries and slideshows; Image management extensions, and how to install them

Image gallery extensionsImage slideshows; Joomla! Template images; How to adjust your template images; Browser support and image accessibility; Summary; Chapter 5: Using Audio in Your Joomla! Website; What is audio?; Audio and the Internet; Audio formats; Audio compression; Audio codecs; Audio file format; Bit rates; How to compress and encode audio; Embedding and displaying audio in Joomla! Articles; The source; The encoding; The upload; Via FTP; Via the Media Manager; Editors; Creating the article; The audio HTML code; Direct download; Streaming; Embedding code

Including audio using a Joomla! Plugin

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-282-50180-1

9786612501807

1-84719-771-X

OCLC:

796383985