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1. Log in to the Joomla administration back-end.

2. Select Extensions / Install/Uninstall from the top menu.

3. In the panel Upload package file, click Browse and locate the installation package you have downloaded to your local computer.

4. Click the button Upload & Install.

5. Select Extensions / Module manager from the top menu and click GGJ_Slideshow in the list.

6. In the drop-down panel Module parameters on the right, type the name of the folder where your images to display in the slideshow are. An example for a default installation of Joomla 1.5 could be images/stories/fruit, the new folders must be made in images/stories/

7. In the panel Details on the left-hand size, select Yes for Enabled.

8. In order to use the slideshow as a regular module:

1. In the panel Details, choose an existing template position from the combo box Position.

2. In the panel Menu assignment, choose the menu items where the module will display (or choose the radio button All).

3. The various customization can be made from the right side options (width, height, border with and color…)

4. Click Save and you are all set.

In order to put the slideshow in the text of an article:

1. In the panel Details, type your own name in the combo box Position, e.g. myslideshow.

2. In the panel Menu assignment, choose the radio button All.

3. Click Save.

4. Select Extensions / Plugin manager from the top menu.

5. Find Content - Load module in the list and make sure it is enabled.

6. In the text of an article, type . (For this step, do not use copy-and-paste.)

Adding captions to images

To attach captions and links to images in a slideshow, the steps to take are as follows. Suppose you would like to add labels to the images drawn from the folder fruit inside the folderstories. The files you are interested in are cherry.jpg, pears.jpg and strawberry.jpg, which you have already uploaded with Media Manager in the Joomla administration back-end.

• Create a text file called description.txt on your computer

• For each image, add a caption line with a vertical bar separating file name, image target link and caption text. The image target link, which should be an absolute URL (typically starting with http: or https:), lets you hyperlink to a custom location: when the image is shown in the slideshow and the visitor clicks the image, they are taken to the location specified. Caption text is any free-format text, which appears at the bottom of the slideshow. (Caption text can contain HTML tags but make sure you close any tags you open.) In our example, this means description.txt could have the following contents:

cherry.jpg||Cherry: the first item in my fruit collection.

pears.jpg|http://graphwire.com|Pears: the second item in my fruit collection.

strawberry.jpg| http://graphwire.com |

• Save the file.

For text that contains non-English characters, users should save their file with UTF-8 encoding. If you have used Notepad (shipped with Windows) to edit the file, choose Save as… from the File menu, and setEncoding at the bottom of the pop-up dialog box to UTF-8.

• Use the Media manager (or an FTP client) to upload description.txt to the folder fruit where your images are.