Joomla! with Flash

EBook Description: 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! sites 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.

Creating a First Web Site with Flash Professional CS5 shows how to make a fully functional, dynamic web site in Flash Professional CS5. This course covers the fundamentals of creating and importing content, adding smooth 2D and 3D transitions, and adding button functionality that goes beyond links.

Adobe Dreamweaver CS5, Flash CS5 and Photoshop CS5

With the release of Adobe's Creative Suite 5, the integration that Web developers and graphic designers had once only dreamed about continues to become a reality. The Web Collection Revealed Premium Edition is the first book on the market to feature Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Flash, and Adobe Photoshop all together in the same text. Readers gain practical experience with the software as they work through end-of-chapter learning projects and step-by-step tutorials.

3D in Flash

If you are an ActionScript developer or designer and you would like to work with 3D in Flash, this book is for you. You will learn the core Flash 3D concepts, using the open source Away3D engine as a primary tool. Once you have mastered these skills, you will be able to realize the possibilities that the available Flash 3D engines, languages, and technologies have to offer you with Flash and 3D.

Describes 3D concepts in theory and their implementation using Away3D
Dives right in to show readers how to quickly create an interactive, animated 3D scene, and builds on that experience throughout the book
Each chapter contains a number of tutorials that focus on one specific feature or group of features

What you will learn

Use Away3D to incorporate real time 3D into your Flash productions
Enable users to interact with your 3D content
Import external models
Use lighting and shading to make your scene look realistic
Animate your 3D scene in real time
Use visual effects such as filters and bump mapping
Tips for optimizing performance and generating procedural content
Who this book is for
This book is for Flash developers wanting to learn to use 3D effects within Flash using open source tools.

Flash Building Websites in Flash 8

Building a Basic Website

CartoonSmart Flash Ads

CartoonSmart.com�s Exciting Flash Ads: Create cool flash banners and ads that viewers actually want to click. All lessons are best used with Flash 8 because of the heavy use of Filters,but Flash 7 users will still get a lot out of these courses. All videos are recorded in high definition Quicktime Video, so you�ll never have to squint your eyes to see the screen, or worry about the video suddenly getting pixelated.

Flash Template Website K10 P13

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Flash XML Applications

dd seamless, interactive, user-controlled delivery to your Flash applications. This book builds upon your understanding of basic ActionScript (AS) syntax with the foundational skills that you need to use XML in Flash applications and AS2 or AS3 to migrate your existing applications.

Beginning with an introduction to XML, XML parsing methods, and a short introduction to AS2 you learn how to create a universal XML load/onload Class as well as a universal XHTML parser. Then you learn how to use Components using XML as the data source, including the menu, menubar, datagrid and tree component. Finally, a tutorial project-the design and development of a Real Estate Web site that contains an XML search engine-pulls it all together with hands-on experience.

All the applications use XML as the data source and are written as class files. Select parts of the Real Estate Web site are redeveloped in AS3 for purposes of illustration. The new XML class is presented and specific code examples demonstrate techniques to apply methods and use properties. Particular attention is paid to the differences between AS2 and AS3 and how to effectively transition from one AS version to the other.

Flash CS4 Professional Digital

Flash CS4 Professional Digital Classroom is like having a personal instructor guiding readers through each lesson, while they work at their own pace. This book includes 13 self-paced lessons that let readers discover essential skills and explore new features and capabilities of Adobe Flash Professional. Every lesson is presented in full color with step-by-step instructions. Learning is reinforced with video tutorials and lesson files on a companion DVD that were developed by the same team of Adobe Certified Instructors and Flash experts who have created many of the official training titles for Adobe Systems. Each video tutorial is approximately five minutes long and demonstrates and explains the concepts and features covered in the lesson. This training package shows the basics of using the program, such as using layers and instances to build animation sequences, as well as advance features, such as using ActionScript to create interactive Web page components. Jam-packed with information, this book and DVD takes users from the basics through intermediate level topics and helps readers find the information they need in a clear, approachable manner.

Flash with Drupal

Due to its power and expandability, Drupal has become one of the most popular open source content management systems. At the same time, Flash has been adopted for its ability to create beautiful and dynamic web applications.
By combining these technologies, you can create Flash applications that are both visually stunning and rich in content.

This book is an in depth discussion and tutorial on how to integrate Flash applications with Drupal CMS. It will describe the best techniques and practices for integrating Flash technology with the power and flexibility of Drupal by building real life Flash applications.

Within this book, you will learn how to build Flash applications that show text from within Drupal and also present images, music, and video within a single Flash application. You will also be able to take advantage of the expandable fields and content filtering provided from the CCK and Views modules to add flexibility and power to your Flash applications. Finally, you will learn how to add your own custom functionality to Drupal and then utilize that from within your Flash applications leaving you with a world of possibilities.

This book starts out with a simple introduction to Flash and Drupal technology where you will create a simple Flash application and then embed that within Drupal. From there, each subsequent chapter builds on the previous chapters tackling a new and challenging task.

For each new task, you will take a step by step approach to building a real life application that utilizes the feature introduced within that chapter. You will also explore alternative design approaches that will eliminate the current design challenges that developers face when building Flash driven Drupal sites; and all this while staying true to the Object Oriented Principles that govern the foundation of the ActionScript 3 language. By the end of this book, you will be able to apply all the lessons learned from this book to any other use case you may encounter.

What you will learn from this book?

Understand how Flash and Drupal communicate
Embed Flash applications within Drupal and also learn about the important modules that make it easier to work with Flash in Drupal
Learn the asynchronous programming techniques for Drupals web services
Set up Drupal for web services using the services module to handle external interaction
Create a custom recipe content type for your Flash application and add new fields and images to it
Use Drupals imageCache module with Flash to ensure that the images are not too large when loaded into our application
Create an audio handling class using ActionScript 3
Load and play audio in Flash, and add user controls like on and off
Utilize Object Oriented techniques in ActionScript 3 to build a common MediaPlayer class to be used for both audio and video applications
Create a playlist of video nodes for our custom media player using Drupal Views
Utilize user management within a Flash application to manage its users and protect the content of the site with a permission based role system
Add content to the Drupal web site and also keep it safe from malicious software
Build a custom voting service and create a Flash driven 5 star voter for Drupal using the popular FiveStar module

The Essential Guide to 3D in Flash

If you are an ActionScript developer or designer and you would like to work with 3D in Flash, this book is for you. You will learn the core Flash 3D concepts, using the open source Away3D engine as a primary tool.
Once you have mastered these skills, you will be able to realize the possibilities that the available Flash 3D engines, languages, and technologies have to offer you with Flash and 3D.

Describes 3D concepts in theory and their implementation using Away3D
Dives right in to show readers how to quickly create an interactive, animated 3D scene, and builds on that experience throughout the book
Each chapter contains a number of tutorials that focus on one specific feature or group of features

What you will learn

Use Away3D to incorporate real time 3D into your Flash productions
Enable users to interact with your 3D content
Import external models
Use lighting and shading to make your scene look realistic
Animate your 3D scene in real time
Use visual effects such as filters and bump mapping
Tips for optimizing performance and generating procedural content
Who this book is for
This book is for Flash developers wanting to learn to use 3D effects within Flash using open source tools.

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