How to Add Games to a Joomla Site
A variety of free online game applications have been developed for Joomla, the highly popular, award-winning content-management system. Joomla comes with loads of built-in functionality and you can take advantage of free modules and components that you can use to expand this functionality even further, including a huge library of games for downloading and publishing. With Joomla, you can easily add and manage a large number of Flash-based games on your website, providing interactivity and entertainment for your visitors.
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Instructions
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Visit the Joomla extensions area listing sports and games (http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/sports-a-games). Choose the game or games you wish to include on your website. For instance, Ulti Sudoku is a free, popular extension that is used for playing sudoku online and delivers a new sudoku puzzle to your website daily. Other extensions include arcade-style assortments and casino-type games.
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Make your selection and download the extension to your PC. Extract the game if it comes in a compressed .zip format. Save the downloaded file to a folder that you can easily access later.
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Log into your website's Joomla administrator panel. Navigate to the Installers menu. Click the Upload File and Install button in the Installers menu. On the menu that comes up, click the browse button.
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Select the downloaded file of the game extension you want to install. Click the "Upload and install." Click "Continue" to complete the game's installation.
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Tips & Warnings
A Joomla game package often contains a component file, module file or a combination of the two. Before downloading a games package, be sure to note which types of files are contained within the game package so that you know how to install it. It is important to always remember this: As a rule, you should always install "component" files before you install the "module" files in any Joomla download.
Verify that the game you choose to download is compatible with the version of Joomla that you have. Some, such as Ulti Sudoku are only developed for Joomla 1.5 and are not backward compatible to earlier versions.
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