What is Joomla?
Joomla is an award winning Open Source Content management System (CMS for Short), Joomla enables you to build websites using online applications with ease, You can update, manage and delete content and decide just how your website looks. Being Open Source means that it is completely FREE to use, no license fees or anything else to pay!
Mmmm What's a Content Management System (CMS)?
Basically it is software that allows you to keep track of every piece of content on your website, Content can be text, images, music, video, documents or just about anything you can think of. You can edit the content, delete, move and create. The best thing is there is no code to learn or technical skill. Content is added using 'Word style' editors. No more paying fees to web designers to update your website!What can Joomla be used for?
Just about everything really its great for simple information websites or huge Portals Joomla is up to the task. The great thing about Joomla is that you can add on additional functionality through Modules and components. Want to turn Joomla into an ecommerce store? Great just plug in an ecommerce component and away you go its that easy.Joomla has a huge community and a huge list of extensions that have already been developed, the majority of which are free as well click here: http://extensions.joomla.org/ to see for your self. Example of website types are:
- Corporate Web sites or portals
- Corporate intranets and extranets
- Online magazines, newspapers, and publications
- E-commerce and online reservations
- Government applications
- Small business Web sites
- Non-profit and organizational Web sites
- Community-based portals
- School and church Web sites
- Personal or family homepages
Joomla uses a very easy template system that allows you to easy develop a cool design for your website. You simple develop a html / css design then drop some template tags into the design and away you go!
Joomla is our CMS of choice and we have developed close on 100 websites in Joomla ranging from ecommerce sites to small 3 page information sites to Government sized Portals.
