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Dextercowley: fixed up formatting

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fixed up formatting

Janusian at 16:41, 2 September 2008

2008-09-02T16:41:42Z

Janusian at 16:41, 2 September 2008

2008-09-02T16:41:20Z

Janusian at 16:39, 2 September 2008

2008-09-02T16:39:59Z

Dextercowley: start of article

2008-09-02T16:11:55Z

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Suppose you want to play a Flash file or other multimedia file when the site is first loaded, but you don't want the file to play every time the user navigates to the Home page. This tip will show you how to do this with Joomla! 1.5.

[[Category:Tips and tricks]]
[[Category:Tips and tricks 1.5]]

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 Suppose you want to play a Flash file or other multimedia file when the site is first loaded, but you don't want the file to play every time the user navigates to the Home page. This tip will show you how to do this with Joomla! 1.5.
-[[Creating the Multimedia (MM) page]]
+'''Creating the Multimedia (MM) page'''
 First step is to make the front page. All browsers will look for an index page first, but the index.html page is the first amongst equals. So create an index.html page and embed your MM file within that. Then either configure your MM or add a link on the page to index.php. This will then navigate your users to the Joomla site. As this is Joomla Wiki I am not going to talk through all the details of creating a non-Joomla page.
-[[Home Page Link]]
+'''Home Page Link'''
 Without further adjustment, whenever your user clicks on the Home page link in the main menu, they will be navigated back to your MM page. No matter how good your MM page is, this will get very annoying, very quickly. The solution therefore is to update the Home Link.
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 and et hop! next time you click the home link, it should take you back to the Joomla home page and not the MM page you created.
 [[Category:Tips and tricks]]
 [[Category:Tips and tricks 1.5]]

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 [[Creating the Multimedia (MM) page]]
 First step is to make the front page. All browsers will look for an index page first, but the index.html page is the first amongst equals. So create an index.html page and embed your MM file within that. Then either configure your MM or add a link on the page to index.php. This will then navigate your users to the Joomla site. As this is Joomla Wiki I am not going to talk through all the details of creating a non-Joomla page.
 [[Home Page Link]]
 Without further adjustment, whenever your user clicks on the Home page link in the main menu, they will be navigated back to your MM page. No matter how good your MM page is, this will get very annoying, very quickly. The solution therefore is to update the Home Link.

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 [[Creating the Multimedia (MM) page]]
-First step is to make the first page. All browsers will look for an index page first, but the index.html page is the first amongst equal. So create an index.html page and embed your MM file within that. Then either configure your MM or add a link on the page to index.php. This will then navigate your users to the Joomla site. As this is Joomla Wiki I am not going to talk through all the details of creating a non-Joomla page.
+First step is to make the front page. All browsers will look for an index page first, but the index.html page is the first amongst equals. So create an index.html page and embed your MM file within that. Then either configure your MM or add a link on the page to index.php. This will then navigate your users to the Joomla site. As this is Joomla Wiki I am not going to talk through all the details of creating a non-Joomla page.
 [[Home Page Link]]