Chapter 4 [ 97 ] The way the extension works is you add in a special tag—{gallery}myphotos{/ gallery} —into your articles to display all of the photos correctly labeled in the myphotos folder: The extension then goes to work. The gallery created contains features such as stylish shadows on each thumbnail, lightbox pop ups to display the original images, and automatically generated thumbnails for each image. By utilizing the special tag method, you can display numerous galleries within your content articles and website. This offers great exibility for a site-wide simple gallery feature. Expose Flash Gallery Expose is a component, module gallery extension that offers language support. It is a Flash-based tool for offering eye-catching slideshows of your images on the Web: This extension is based on the stand-alone gallery software called "Expose" which has evolved to provide support for Joomla! websites. This extension offers numerous features, including nesting of albums, assigning thumbnails to albums, online picture upload, ofine gallery management, watermark addition, and playing slideshows. This material is copyright and is licensed for the sole use by jackie tracey on 23rd February 2010 953 Quincy Drive, , Brick, , 08724 Adding and Managing Image Content [ 98 ] With Expose, you can link directly to images, categories of images, or full albums: Phoca Gallery with Slideshow Phoca Gallery is a fully-featured image gallery and slideshow extension for Joomla! It is a component with plugins and modules. It also caters for language support: This material is copyright and is licensed for the sole use by jackie tracey on 23rd February 2010 953 Quincy Drive, , Brick, , 08724 Chapter 4 [ 99 ] Phoca Gallery allows you to create image categories and subcategories, and place images into these. It is possible for images to belong to more than one category, which provides greater exibility in displaying images. Image thumbnails are automatically generated for the gallery, with added options such as watermarking, user access, YouTube support, and numerous gallery effects to display your image galleries in various ways: Phoca Gallery comes with a range of available plugins and modules. It is possible to present image galleries and slideshows in both your articles and modules. There is even a search plugin to help Joomla! search through your image categories. Ozio Gallery2 Ozio Gallery is a Joomla! Component, with available modules: This material is copyright and is licensed for the sole use by jackie tracey on 23rd February 2010 953 Quincy Drive, , Brick, , 08724 Adding and Managing Image Content [ 100 ] It can be used to develop complex image galleries with interesting effects thanks to the Flash features and gallery skins. These two features effectively turn this image gallery component into many different image gallery options: Ozio Gallery offers you the exibility of linking directly to the content, or by publishing your galleries into module positions using the Ozio Gallery module. Containing numerous parameters, this product should satisfy anyone requiring an interesting Flash-based image gallery feature with slideshow support: This material is copyright and is licensed for the sole use by jackie tracey on 23rd February 2010 953 Quincy Drive, , Brick, , 08724 Chapter 4 [ 101 ] This extension also offers the ability to show photos from a ickr account, and to display your ickr images within your Joomla! site: This material is copyright and is licensed for the sole use by jackie tracey on 23rd February 2010 953 Quincy Drive, , Brick, , 08724 Adding and Managing Image Content [ 102 ] JoomGallery JoomGallery is a Joomla! Component, Plugin, and Module with language support: JoomGallery offers many features including dening subcategories of galleries, batch upload of images, user access rights to categories, congurable watermarks, slideshow support, and the list goes on: This material is copyright and is licensed for the sole use by jackie tracey on 23rd February 2010 953 Quincy Drive, , Brick, , 08724 Chapter 4 [ 103 ] Image slideshows A list of Joomla! Image Extensions for creating slideshows is as follows: RokSlideshow RokSlideshow is a Joomla! Module that allows you to display a series of images and captions, and transition between them in a congurable manner. The slideshow is driven by Mootools, providing fades, burns, wipes, and push effects between the images displayed. All in all, the module is capable of 30 different transition effects. This material is copyright and is licensed for the sole use by jackie tracey on 23rd February 2010 953 Quincy Drive, , Brick, , 08724 Adding and Managing Image Content [ 104 ] Image information can be displayed and images may contain hyperlinks, a title, and a description: RokSlideshow is very exible and easily customizable. It is a great way to display image slideshows in your Joomla! website and an excellent alternative to Flash image gallery players. Simple Image Rotator The Simple Image Rotator module offers a simple image rotating mechanism. It is a lightweight JavaScript alternative to Flash image rotation scripts, but offers a similar feel in terms of the fading transition. The previous image will fade within a few seconds to the next image, and so on. It does what it says on the tin! This material is copyright and is licensed for the sole use by jackie tracey on 23rd February 2010 953 Quincy Drive, , Brick, , 08724 Chapter 4 [ 105 ] Boncko Cooliris (PicLens) Gallery Plugin If you happen to use Cooliris for your image galleries, then extensions such as the Boncko Cooliris Plugin will be right up your street: You can easily add Cooliris image galleries inside your articles by using the special tag: {boncko}/img_dir/{/boncko}. This plugin will insert all images and Flash video les from the /img_dir/ directory into your Joomla! content, making your image gallery look good. This process means you can store and organize your image galleries externally from your Joomla! site, and suck in the content that you wish. Boncko Cooliris Plugin can even play audio tracks while your image gallery is active. This material is copyright and is licensed for the sole use by jackie tracey on 23rd February 2010 953 Quincy Drive, , Brick, , 08724 Adding and Managing Image Content [ 106 ] Some of these have been highlighted because they are popular GPL extensions which offer great exibility for creating image galleries and slideshow features. There are many other image gallery extensions available at http://extensions.joomla.org: Many new extensions are being made available each week. Some of these are free GPL, some commercial extensions, and others require club memberships to access. Whether they are free or commercial entities, I hope you nd a solution for your image gallery and slideshow requirements. Joomla! Extensions generally provide image solutions for creating galleries and slideshows within articles or modules. You may have a number of other images loading into your web pages, these are usually contained within your template. Joomla! Template images Joomla! Templates control the overall look and layout of your Joomla! website. They provide the framework that brings together common elements and they provide the glue for your layout to interact with modules and components. This material is copyright and is licensed for the sole use by jackie tracey on 23rd February 2010 953 Quincy Drive, , Brick, , 08724 . February 2 010 953 Quincy Drive, , Brick, , 08724 Chapter 4 [ 103 ] Image slideshows A list of Joomla! Image Extensions for creating slideshows is as follows: RokSlideshow RokSlideshow is a Joomla! . sole use by jackie tracey on 23rd February 2 010 953 Quincy Drive, , Brick, , 08724 Adding and Managing Image Content [ 102 ] JoomGallery JoomGallery is a Joomla! Component, Plugin, and Module with. February 2 010 953 Quincy Drive, , Brick, , 08724 Chapter 4 [ 101 ] This extension also offers the ability to show photos from a ickr account, and to display your ickr images within your Joomla!