How to do that?
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- Alex Montalvo
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www.contrastdesign.co.uk/
I like to put a video in the background like this page.
How?
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- Cliff Pfeifer
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- It's a flash video inserted into the showcase position, then the rest of the template elements are arranged and styled to let it show through. This uses the Gantry framework, so just check out the code for the site in Firebug or a web inspector to see how they do it, that's what I did.
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- David McKay
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- Alex, did you ever figure it out? I could use some help as well, trying to change the location of my video in Omnicron. Cheers, David
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- Cliff Pfeifer
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- What are you trying to do exactly? The original post in this thread requires some custom development that we can't provide an answer with here. What you are trying to do may differ from that so please be more specific about your issue.
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- David McKay
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I'm trying to get an swf file to show up in showcase a on omnicron. I have tried various methods, but nothing seems to work. My most recent try is using the normal call for jwplayer (working elsewhere) located in a custom module set for showcase a:
{swf}wingtip_wb|854|480|autoplay{/swf}
Here is the non-working page link: plantmesh.com/plantmesh-product-informat...articles/models.html
Here is the same call, but in an article vs the showcase and it works fine: plantmesh.com
- My website URL is: plantmesh.com
- My Joomla version number is Joomla! 1.5.20 Stable [ senu takaa ] 18-July-2010 18:00 GMT
- My Rockettheme template version number is: Omnicron 1.5.1
Any suggestions? David
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- Cliff Pfeifer
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Hi, the issue is that Joomla can only load plugin syntax into articles by default, your plugin code doesn't work in a module. You need to an extension to add that functionality into Joomla, like this one for example:
extensions.joomla.org/extensions/core-en...embed-a-include/6713
I would search for others as well to see if there is one better for what you are doing. Hope that helps. - The difficult we do immediately, the impossible takes a little longer.
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- David McKay
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- Ok, I will check that out and feed back what I find - thanks for the prompt reply!
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- David McKay
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I got it to partially work using
http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/core-enhancements/flash-management/366
. Here is what it looks like:
http://plantmesh.com
I tried several different ways to make it appear behind the menu and at the top, but I get vertical movement on the other components. I don't have enough knowledge to know how to make it look like www.contrastdesign.co.uk/ . Can you steer me in the right direction to try some things? I looked carefully at the source behind the page, but got lost quickly.
David
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- Cliff Pfeifer
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- There isn't really an easy answer, that is a completely custom design. To do this, you'll need to edit the index.php file considerably and add a fair amount of CSS for positioning and z-index. Basically, the showcase position would need to have all the header and menu divs inside of it, instead of being separated, as they are in the Omnicron template. Depending on your html knowledge this could be tricky. This is a bit more than we can provide support with. As I said before, take a look at the source code on their page to get an idea of the page structure and start hacking up your files if you feel adventurous.
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- David McKay
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- Thanks Cliff - would you (or someone you know), be interested in doing that for us for a fee? Just the front page would be our desired approach.
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