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Joomla! 1.5 JavaScript jQuery
Joomla! 1.5 JavaScript jQuery

Joomla! 1.5 JavaScript jQuery: Enhance your Joomla! Sites with the power of jQuery extensions, plugins, and more

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Joomla! 1.5 JavaScript jQuery

Chapter 2. Site Content—Our Next Step

"Site content is usually our main concern when developing a site, and can directly affect our success."

As we saw in the previous chapter, images can attract visitors and in the first instance itself make them stay on our site. We saw how to make these images more interesting and also how to take full advantage of them. But in the long run, content is what makes our visitors stay or return to our site.

Although we are not going to see how to prepare good content for our site, we will see how to organize them in some interesting ways. We are going to focus on topics, such as:

  • Tabs—organizing our contents into tabs

  • Article slideshows

  • Site search—introducing AJAX searches

Quite interesting, isn't it? Keep reading!

Organizing our content into tabs can be very useful. It provides the ability to have more information placed in minimum amount of space, and is great for news and article introductions. We can also organize the content into slideshows; these work very...

Basic concepts on Joomla! content


First, let us start by taking a quick look at how Joomla! organizes and works with content. By default, in version 1.5, Joomla! organizes content into sections, categories, and articles. Sections and categories are used to organize our site content, which is represented by our articles.

Of course, we can have articles placed in uncategorized sections and categories. However, personally, I prefer to create a structure that maintains all of the site's content in an organized manner.

We will now create a section called "News". Navigate to your Joomla! Administrator screen, and then to Content | Section Manager. On this screen, we need to click on the New button, which will open the Section creation screen. On this screen, we can introduce the Section name and save it:

Now, inside this section, we will create...

How Joomla! shows our articles to site visitors


The blog style is one of the basic ways in which we can display our articles. This style will show our articles in a structured fashion—it is very organized and quite interesting. I've created a blog menu with the articles inside our Site News category.

Note

Remember, in order to create this you need to navigate to Menus | Main Menu | New | Articles | Category Blog Layout and then configure the parameters as per your requirements.

Our site, more or less, will look similar to the following screenshot:

As you can see, most of the modules have disappeared, and our visitors can fully concentrate on the content that they are searching for. We can achieve this from each module's admin screen in Extensions | Module Manager.

Every module has a Menu...

Enhance your site content using JavaScript


We are going to use some Joomla! extensions to help us add some spice to our site. In keeping with the last example, we are first going to try to show our latest news in an article position.

Organizing our content into tabs

For this example, I would like to show you a simple, but very interesting extension. It is called jTabs, and although it works in a different way, it will help us show news in tabs. First, search for it in the JED; searching for the name should work, and if not, here's the link:

http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/style-a-design/tabs-a-slides/8265

Once the extension has been downloaded, navigate to Extensions | Install/Uninstall. Then select the file and click on the Upload File and Install button. Once ...

Tips and tricks


I just want to make sure you don't miss these handy tips, and hope that they are useful to you:

  • Our jTabs module can be mixed with the "Modules Anywhere" module to load modules into our tabs. This way you will have all the features of our tabs module, with the possibilities of loading the modules you want in the tabs. And if you also place the "Mini FrontPage" module in it we will end up with a very, very powerful mix of components.

  • The Content Slider Module uses the jQuery tools library, which we can find here in http://flowplayer.org/tools/, and we can take advantage of this to modify the module. For example, if we want to add a nice, easing animation, we can modify the modules/mod_slider/mod_slider.php file. Search for the ...

Summary


Well, we are at the end of the chapter, and we have seen quite a lot in it. We have put our content into tabs, created interesting article sliders, and added AJAX search capabilities to our site. These things alone can make a site look more interesting to our visitors and can also help us to show more content in the same available space.

We have also seen how to solve some problems in our modules and some tips at the end. I really hope this chapter has been interesting to you. Also, before going onto Chapter 3, why don't you try all these things on a demo site? It can be fun. I will be waiting for you in Chapter 3, don't be late! There are some interesting topics such as video plugins, audio and SWF files, and a lot more that await you.

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Key benefits

  • Build impressive Joomla! Sites with JavaScript and jQuery
  • Create your own Joomla!, jQuery-powered, extensions
  • Enhance your site with third-party features, code-highlighting, Flicker, and more using Joomla! Plugins
  • Detailed explanations with step-by-step guidance and practical examples

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Ever wondered how all the great-looking, feature packed, amazing Joomla! sites are made? Would you like to add image transitions, popups, scrolls, AJAX forms, image galleries, no-page reloads to your website, but are worried that they will be difficult to implement? To make any Joomla! site look more professional, interactive, and interesting you need the ease and power of jQuery.This book will help you to use the jQuery library with the Joomla! CMS. It will take you through adding jQuery functionality to the Joomla! CMS and show how to use it to make the modules and themes more dynamic, interactive, and responsive, and add effects to your Joomla! site.The book starts by showing a plain Joomla! site without any JavaScript enhancement or features, then accompanies you through the process of site enhancement.First you will learn how to make use of third-party extensions to include jQuery features into your site. These can be image galleries, jQuery powered menus, tooltips, and many, many more. Later on you will learn how to modify your template to add some features to your Joomla! site, You will also learn to build your own jQuery-powered Joomla! extensions, and how to pack them so that you can use them in any project you like. Further, you will learn to create your own modules and components.By the end of this book, you will have learned how to enhance any Joomla! site with JavaScript and jQuery.

Who is this book for?

If you are a PHP developer who is working with Joomla!, this book is for you. It is also aimed at web designers who want to add JavaScript elements, using jQuery, to their Joomla! sites, themes, modules, and other extensions.A basic knowledge of web development and Joomal! is required. Some knowledge of JavaScript would certainly be a bonus. No knowledge of jQuery is required.

What you will learn

  • Add an image slideshow, image popups, and a gallery to our site
  • Organize your site content in different tabs, articles, and slideshows and improve its search capability with AJAX searching
  • Enhance your site with third-party features, codehighlight, Flicker, and more using Joomla! Plugins
  • Build a dropdown menu with some amazing effects
  • Refactor and remove unnecessary library loads
  • Master the technique of coding directly on the template, parallax, scrolls, and tooltips
  • Build your first Joomla! module, a jQuery powered contact form
  • Develop a full module or component extension, with some bits of jQuery
  • Solve usability problems

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Table of Contents

10 Chapters
Let's Start Making a Better Site—Images Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Site Content—Our Next Step Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Embedding Rich Media Features with Joomla! Plugins Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
One Last Look at Joomla! jQuery Modules Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Refactoring Our Site Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Getting Our Hands on Coding JavaScript Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Creating Our Own Modules Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Building Complete Solutions, Modules, and Components Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Going Further with Our Component Development Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Problems and Usability Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

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First of all I want to say thank you to Publisher house, choosing this author was a good investment. This book is very good, even if you are advance user of Joomla! 1.5, because it contains many useful suggestions for eg. what to do if you have jQuery conflict on your web page. This book will learn you how jQuery interacts with other tools and how to build your own jQuery extensions. This is an excellent book on showing the introductory to beginner (and intermediate) web developers how to use jQuery efficiently and quickly.This book can be used as either a learning tool for the beginner or as a reference book for the seasoned jQuery user who needs to find a nice tip quickly. Each chapter covers a different aspect of using or programming (there you will find also some aspect using of CSS, too), with lot's of useful examples.Definitely worth buying if you really want to learn how to use wisely and safe JavaScript & jQuery library on your Joomla! web page. Especially, If you are just starting, or even just want a reference for the jQuery basics.
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