
The book "Joomla! with Flash" written by Suhreed Sarkar is addressed to people interested in using Flash on the website built on Joomla 1.5.
If you are a Joomla! user who wants to integrate Flash into your website then this book is great resource for you, even if you are new to Joomla!, book can be very useful.
It's great overview with a well structured guide. It is full of examples with attached screenshots showing exemplary configurations. All that confirms that using Flash together with Joomla! is easy and reasonable choice.
The 8 chapters book, answers the question "
why use a flash in joomla?" and by introducing the reader to the different types of Flash objects and various tools, obtains complete information on many interesting topics such as:
- Creating Flash objects and choosing right tools for working with them.
- Creating attractive Flash-based menus.
- Generating, displaying and working with specific content in Flash as a part of a page (in an article or as a module) using Flash extensions ( videos, galleries, slideshows, flash maps, logo,banners and headers) .
- Improving the overall design by learning to use Flash templates.
- Transforming Joomla! site into a streaming media site.
- And more.
The book also includes an extensive chapter about troubleshooting.
With a huge collection of tutorials the author covers virtually all the most common uses of Flash in Joomla!. You can benefit from this book as it definitely expands a knowledge. After going through the book, you can transform your existing web site into an new full interactive multimedia site. That book is a good resource that summarizes Flash extensions for Joomla!.