What is Joomla?

Well, Joomla! is recognized as one the best ContentManagement Systems being used widely. Today web developers admire Joomla! a lot for the features it has to offer them.

Thinking of building a website? Then ’Joomla!’ would be the good choice. The reasons are many. First of all, it is free. It is an open source. It uses MVC (Model-view-Controller) framework. This makes it easy for all for the development of any application.

Joomla! is written in PHP language. It uses the OOPs (Object Oriented Programming) methodology. There are new versions of Joomla! published after regular intervals having good and advanced features. The earliest version of Joomla! , ‘Joomla! 10.0’ was published on September 10, 2005. Later there were still more releases. Go you can check on ‘magazine.Joomla.org’ to get more information about the Joomla! releases.

Uses of Joomla!

Building static websites may not be looked upon as the solution for your profile or for showing your company’s presence on World Wide Web. Reasons are quiet obvious. Every time you have something new to add to your website, it becomes really very difficult to add that to these static web pages. Also it’s even more difficult to update these static pages when done with adding new content. Searching on these static websites is difficult and time consuming. For example, let’s say I have a static website related to travel. I have an article called ‘Attractions of my city’. Also I have plenty of such other articles related to different travel issues. In such scenario, it would be really very difficult to find my article ‘Attractions of my city’. Also user will have to navigate all over the pages of the website for the information he is looking for.

To cater the issues narrated above, CMS applications like Joomla! works well and gives a sigh of relief.  It is free to download and is very easy to install. You can use Joomla! for different portals, eCommerce sites(using an extension called ‘Virtuemart’), Blog, social networking sites, corporate websites, personal websites, educational and governmental websites, forums, news portals and many other type of websites. There are so many extensions in the form of ‘Components’, ‘Modules’, ‘Plugins’ available, you can develop any kind of website that you wish to. It supports multiple languages as well as media. It has build in contact form which works smoothly. It includes the polling system to register to your votes to the issues raised. Also it offers news feed to its users. There are so many design themes available. Many have built their own websites using Joomla! Manual and free design themes available to have their own portfolio on internet. For your liking, you can even buy some premium themes or have one designed specially for you with the help of web developers and designers. More and more companies have their own teams for doing these tasks and have even built more advanced components, modules and Plugins than those which are present in the basic Joomla! Package. People are really very happy by choosing Joomla! as the platform. Joomla! comes along with the advanced Text editors called ‘JCE’ which has many options available to update your articles. The administrator Dashboard that Joomla! offers is really very easy to understand and navigate. An administrator has all the controls over the website and manages the website through this admin Panel. Also Joomla! has good database design. There are also database backup and restore extensions available. Joomla! has Good Documentation and help system. If you have any technical issue, you can get help from the Joomla! community forums and other related forums. There are plenty of resources to help you since many developers log their experiences and solutions to different problems on such forums.

To conclude, Joomla! is free and is widely used CMS. It is fast improving CMS foundation, very flexible and very beneficial. Joomla! Can help you create from simple to amazingly complex websites. It can support your organization in the World Wide Web and what is fantastic for you, is that you do not need to know any coding or programming.

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