| advertisement |
Embed playlists:
An amazing way to increase interactivity on your web site is with the ability to play music. You can upload MP3s and create a music playlist on a Joomla website, one of the ways of doing this is by making use of hte free XSPF MP3 player. XSPF is a music playlist platform that uses XML to store a music playlist. You can upload the MP3s to any folder of your web site. Download and install the XSPF Musicc Player and upload it to the root directory of your website. Now define your playlist in XML and save it as a playlist.XPSF file that should also be uploaded to the root of your web site.
Now go to Extensions > Module Manager and create a new HTML module. Use the following code to embed the player on to your website <object data="xspf_player.swf?playlist_url=playlist.xspf &autoplay=1"height="15"width="200"type" application/x-shockwave-flash"> <param name="src" value="xspf_player.swf? play-list_url+playlist.xspf&autoplay=1"/></object>.
An amazing way to increase interactivity on your web site is with the ability to play music. You can upload MP3s and create a music playlist on a Joomla website, one of the ways of doing this is by making use of hte free XSPF MP3 player. XSPF is a music playlist platform that uses XML to store a music playlist. You can upload the MP3s to any folder of your web site. Download and install the XSPF Musicc Player and upload it to the root directory of your website. Now define your playlist in XML and save it as a playlist.XPSF file that should also be uploaded to the root of your web site.
Now go to Extensions > Module Manager and create a new HTML module. Use the following code to embed the player on to your website <object data="xspf_player.swf?playlist_url=playlist.xspf &autoplay=1"height="15"width="200"type" application/x-shockwave-flash"> <param name="src" value="xspf_player.swf? play-list_url+playlist.xspf&autoplay=1"/></object>.
Automated email:
Using Joomla you can send automated emails from your personal email account. To illustrate this we shall make use of an imaginary Gmail account. For configuring Joomal to use a custom email id go to Global configuration > Server and select the Mail settings sections. Set the Mailer to SMTP Server and the mail id can be anything like tipsandtricks@gmail.com. Set the From Name (Example:Trickmaker) and make no changes to the send mail path requires. Set SMTP Authentication to yes and choose the SMTP username and password accordingly. The SMTP host in this case will be gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.