Joomla! 1.5 Multimedia -- Table of Contents -- Joomla! 1.5 Multimedia -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Getting Started with Joomla! Multimedia -- What is multimedia? -- Categories of multimedia -- Linear -- Non-linear -- Hypermedia -- Website multimedia -- Various types of website multimedia -- 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 -- 2. Managing Your Joomla! Media -- Overview of the Joomla! Media Manager -- Uploading 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 -- SFTP -- Third-party file management extensions -- eXtplorer -- Joomla! Flash Uploader -- Summary -- 3. Text, Characters, and Fonts in Your Joomla! Site -- Overview 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 -- Font family -- Font size -- Meet the units -- Setting the text size using em -- Setting the text size using percent -- Setting the text size using pixels -- Setting the text size using points -- Font style -- Font weight -- 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 -- 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 extensions -- Simple Image Gallery -- Expose Flash Gallery -- Phoca Gallery with Slideshow -- Ozio Gallery2 -- JoomGallery -- Image slideshows -- RokSlideshow -- Simple Image Rotator -- Boncko Cooliris (PicLens) Gallery Plugin -- Joomla! Template images -- How to adjust your template images -- Browser support and image accessibility -- Summary -- 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 -- Creating an audio podcast for Joomla! -- What is a podcast? -- What is RSS? -- Joomla! and RSS -- FeedBurner -- Creating a new podcast feed -- Select and prepare your audio content -- Disable the WYSIWYG editor -- Create the category -- Create the article to display your audio -- Create the menu link and RSS feed -- How it all works -- FeedBurner -- Podcasting using extensions -- Third-party audio extensions -- Podcast Suite -- MP3 Browser -- Simple MP3 Player -- Jukebox -- 1 PixelOut Audio Player -- Zina -- Browser support and audio accessibility -- Good practice techniques -- Text transcripts -- Alternative content -- Captioning -- Link to downloads -- Audio controls -- Summary -- 6. Using Video in Your Joomla! Website -- Video on the Internet -- Bandwidth limitations -- Integration of video with other web content -- Authoring and playing video for the Web -- Video formats -- Video compression -- Video codec -- Bit rates -- Video containers -- AVI -- FLV -- MOV -- MPEG -- WMV -- RM -- Embedding and displaying video in your Joomla! web pages -- The source -- The encoding -- The upload -- Via FTP -- Via the Media Manager -- Editors -- Creating the article -- The video HTML code -- Direct download -- Streaming -- Embedding code -- Including a video using an article plugin -- Creating a video podcast -- Third-party video extensions -- AllVideos -- hwdVideoShare -- Simple Flash Video Player -- RokBox -- Shadowbox -- Browser support and video accessibility -- Good practice techniques -- Text transcripts -- Alternative content -- Captioning -- Video controls -- Summary -- 7. Collaborating with External Sources -- Flickr, YouTube, MySpace, Twitter, Facebook, Google... the list goes on -- Using HTML code to include resources.

Using third-party extensions for external resources -- Joomla! and social networking integration -- Twitter Follow Me (M) -- AutoTweet NG (C, P) -- JTweet (M) -- Tweetboard (P) -- WebScribble jConnector (C,M,P) -- Facebook Fanbox Free (M) -- jwFacebook Comments (P) -- Joomla! and video channel integration -- easiertube (P) -- QTube (M, P) -- JMultimedia Suite (C, M, P) -- Joomla! and audio and radio channel integration -- LCPlayer - Radio / TV (M) -- Joomla! and photo integration -- UniversalPlayground - Flickr slideshow plug-in (P) -- Flickr + Highslide (M) -- Joomla! and weather integration -- Google Weather - Plugin (P, M) -- Z Weather (C,M,P) -- eWeather (C,M) -- Joomla! and news channel integration -- Google News (M) -- Other resources and how to integrate them with Joomla! -- Plugin GoogleMaps (P) -- Ajax Whois (C,M) -- SlideShare (P) -- Slick RSS (M) -- RokBox Plugin (P) -- Simple RSS Feed Reader (M) -- Summary -- 8. Joomla! Templates and Multimedia -- What is a Joomla! Template? -- Template components -- Scripting and multimedia -- Mellow template-Yootheme -- Infuse-RocketTheme -- JA Halite-Joomla Art -- Motion-Yootheme -- The mobile web -- Making your site mobile friendly -- Consider these adjustments -- Areas of importance -- Disabling images, CSS, and JavaScript -- Take an on-demand approach with your multimedia -- Load in custom stylesheets or templates for mobile devices -- Available extensions -- PDA-plugin for Joomla! 1.5 (P,T) -- Installation -- WAFL: Mobile Content Adaption (P,C,T,M) -- Installation -- Mobilebot for Joomla 1.5 (P) -- Installation -- Testing for the mobile web -- Disable your stylesheet -- Resize your browser -- Borrow a phone to test with -- Target your visitors, and what you want them to see -- Use an emulator -- Accessibility -- Accessible content -- Accessible template code -- Fonts, colors, and contrasts.

Summary -- 9. Joomla! Multimedia Project -- Overview -- Preliminary advice -- Getting started -- Local development -- Installing the MAMP package -- How to use MAMP -- Creating a local database -- Running more than one website locally -- Remote server development -- The site structure -- Things to consider when configuring from the start -- Global Configuration settings -- Site Settings -- Metadata Settings -- SEO Settings -- User Settings -- Media Settings -- Debug Settings -- Cache Settings -- Session Settings -- Mail Settings -- Content parameters -- Front page -- Sections and categories -- Sections -- Categories -- Choosing a template / theme for your site -- Multimedia features -- Text content -- Module positions -- Adjusting the menu -- Front page features -- The front page component -- Adding a module to display our latest news -- Adding the date and time -- Adding a search feature -- Adding images -- Adding an image gallery -- Image gallery using Phoca Gallery -- Image Gallery in articles, using BK-Thumb -- Multimedia display using RokBox -- Adding video features -- RokBox, here we go again! -- Video using hwdVideoShare -- Videos within articles using FlowPlayer -- Using the QTube extension to display YouTube videos -- Adding audio features -- MP3 Browser -- Simple MP3 Player -- RokBox for audio -- Adding podcasts -- Adding social profiling features -- Easy Twitter Status -- Twitter Follow Me -- Adding RSS features -- Adding map features -- Googlemaps Plugin -- Creating a custom error page -- Override system error page -- Override system error page styling -- Changing the site favicon -- Create the image -- Convert the image to an ICO format -- Replace the existing favicon -- Viewing the new favicon -- And the rest... -- Accessibility and validation -- Accessibility -- Online validators -- Wrapping up -- Summary.

A. Extension Types and How to Install Them.