Multimedia cho Joomla part 32 pps

Create a new menu link to Articles|Article Layout, and select the Joomla!. If you would like to create a link to all of your podcasts, simply create a menu link to a Category Blog Layou

You will need to populate the fields with applicable information, and then click on

the "Save and Publish Article" icon at the top-right of the screen This will actually

create a new article and pre-populate it with some of the previously entered

information This is now simply a Joomla! Article, so you can revisit it at any stage

if you wish to enter in further information Make sure that you select the section

"Audio" and the Category "Podcast" to help with article organization, and that the

article is also published Then click on Save at the top of the page.

Now our first podcast has been configured, we can do two things:

Create a Menu link to this from a Menu

Publish the Podcast Module to display our new feed

Now we're going to go publish our Podcast Module Navigate to

Extensions|Module Manager and click on the Podcast module to edit it There are a

number of parameters you can set, but for now let's enable the module, publish it on

the right-hand side column, and adjust the module ordering so it shows at the top of

the right-hand side column Click on Apply to save your changes and take a look at

the frontend of the site There you will see the new Podcast module, and if you click

on the icon, you will be taken to an RSS page (The address is similar to the following

address: http://localhost/JMultimedia/index.php?option=com_podcast&view

=feed&format=raw.)

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Here you will be able to view your podcasts You may want to go back into your

module and adjust some of its parameters to define the look you require Here

is my new module after a few adjustments:

When new podcasts are added to the Podcast Suite, they will be shown

automatically, and any users subscribed to these feeds will be notified

of the new podcasts that are available

I have rushed through this pretty quickly in order to show you the basic process, but

there are other features available in the Joomla! Podcast Suite In the administration,

click on Menu|Main Menu Create a new menu link to Articles|Article Layout, and

select the Joomla! Audio Article that was just created for your first podcast Create

a link called Podcast Number 1, and make it a submenu of the main audio link

Once you have saved this new menu item, visit the frontend of your site to view the

results:

You will now see that the Joomla! Article contains a nice Flash MP3 player where our

podcast tag resides So not only does the Podcast Suite allow you to publish podcast

feeds, but you can play the audio and display it within your site articles

If you would like to create a link to all of your podcasts, simply create a

menu link to a Category Blog Layout Each time you add a new podcast

article to your site, and locate it within the correct section and category, it

will automatically be available to your site visitors

Adding social profiling features

Social networking is the big thing It's all about networking and groups,

the integration of information from different sources, and opportunity for

cross-publicizing it

This section will help you add a few of the most popular social networking features

into Joomla!

Easy Twitter Status

Easy Twitter Status is one of the easiest (and non-commercial) twitter message

extensions available It contains the following features:

Twitter username

Tweet display limit

Which timeline to show

Show avatar

Avatar size

Enable default style or use your own customized style

Show follow link

In order to use this extension, you will require a Twitter account at http://www.twitter.com

The rest is easy, let's add it now:

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3 Upload the extensions to Joomla! using the Extension|Install / Uninstall

feature

4 Navigate to the Extensions|Module Manager area and click on the Twitter

module to edit it

You will see the module preferences available As with all modules, you can

hover over the parameter title to obtain a tooltip description that will help

explain the fields

In my demonstration, I have also made a change to the module title, published it on

the left column, and under the Menu Assignment area we want to make this module

available on just the Home menu link:

Now that we have published the module on the left-hand side, it could make our

left column quite long as compared to the other content published on the front page

Let's go into our "RokBox" and "QTube" modules and only make them assigned to

the menu links related to our video examples:

The Easy Twitter module should now only show on our Home Page menu item and

pull in our latest Twitter messages Styling for this can be adjusted with CSS, and

may also be affected by the current styling within your template.css file:

Twitter Follow Me

The Twitter Follow Me module displays a choice of simple eye-catching graphics

displayed within your Joomla! page and links to your Twitter account Users who

wish to follow your Twitters can easily reach them by clicking on the provided link

Follow these steps to install this module:

1 Search the Joomla! Extensions area for "Follow Me" at

http://extensions.joomla.org

2 Visit the extension developer's website and download the extension to

your computer

3 Upload the extensions to Joomla! using the Extension|Install / Uninstall

feature

4 Navigate to the Extensions|Module Manager area and click on the Follow

Me module to edit it.

The module contains a number of self explanatory parameters I have selected

the following:

For this module to sit well within our current template, I have selected to display

it in the bottom-left of the site page, and have adjusted the module's title so it is

not displayed This Twitter Follow Me module can actually be placed within any

available module position as it utilizes another display method compared to usual

modules Here is a screenshot of how it looks in my project:

For those who want to provide an easy link to their Twitter accounts, this is a five

minute eye-catching solution

There are many other extensions that enable you to communicate with external

social networking resources such as Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, and so forth I

suggest playing with a few to see if they provide the functionality you require

for your projects

Adding RSS features

The creation of RSS feeds for Joomla! has been covered in Chapters 5 and 6, so here is

a summary to create one using the built-in Joomla! RSS creation feature

Joomla! has the ability to generate its own RSS feeds These are created automatically

when we create a new menu item to either the front page feature, or a menu link to a

section or category

To create a new feed, navigate to Menu|Main Menu in the administration and

create a new menu item Under the "Select Menu Item Type" screen, select "Articles"

and then select "Category Blog Layout" The Category Blog Layout option will create

a new menu link to articles that reside within our selected category Give the new

menu link a title of something like "Latest News", and on the right-hand side of the

page, select the section and category News / Latest.

This will create a new blog layout for all of our articles that reside within the

News / Latest category There is one more thing we need to check on this new

menu item When you create a link to either a section or category in Joomla!, one

of the available menu options will be Show a Feed Link This is found under the

Parameters (Advanced) options on the right side of the page:

Click on Apply to save your new menu item and view the frontend of the site A new

Main Menu option should now be available and when clicked upon, it should take

you to a blog layout of your articles:

If you look in your browser URL address bar, you should now see that an RSS feed

has been recognized on this page and an icon displaying it is shown:

When clicked on, this will offer the user the ability to subscribe to two feed types

The respective RSS feeds will show, allowing the user to subscribe to them:

If you like you can take this feed URL, and create either text hyperlinks around your

site to promote it, make a nice icon to publish on your site pages, or use an extension

module to recognize feeds created from your site and automatically show a nice feed

icon when it finds them Either way, when we add new articles into this section and

category, our new content will be displayed on our RSS feed and anyone subscribed

will be able to easily view your new website content

RSS feeds can only be generated on the front page layout, to a section, or to a category

They can include video, audio, images, and other multimedia content and provide this

directly to your subscribers, rather than them having to come to your site to obtain it

Adding map features

There are a number of great mapping features for Joomla!, most of them utilizing the

Google Maps application which has become one of the most powerful mapping tools

available on the Web

Googlemaps Plugin

Googlemaps Plugin for Joomla! displays one or more Google Maps within your

articles It is a perfect method for dropping mapping features easily into your site