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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