What is Joomla?
Joomla is a very effective, fully functional content management system for the building of personal, business or corporate websites. It is used all over the world for a variety of websites from the simplest to the most complex of websites for all manner of purposes, including the secure payments necessary for ecommerce.
Can I install Joomla myself?
Yes. Anyone can, really. Joomla is pretty easy to install. It is also easily managed and a very reliable content management system. This open source content management system is meant for the beginner to be able to install and the wealth of online Joomla tutorials are very easy to find and to walk through.
How will a content management system help me?
A content management system takes care of al the design, management and navigation of your website at the building stage. It does all that for you, so all you need to concentrate on is the writing of your Joomla website’s content. It make sit easier than many other content management systems to add as many pages as you want.
Joomla is easy to extend and to add new functionalities to, so article directories, RSS feeds, blogs etc are no problems for Joomla and n problems for you to install, either.
The look of your Joomla website can easily be changed any time you want and many free templates are available to make that easy too.
Content managements systems, if they are to be effective, need to be dynamic. You have that with Joomla. This content managements system can also easily categorize your content into ‘most recent’, ‘most popular’ etc too.
The interactive nature of Web 2.0 websites is easy to achieve with Joomla as polls and comments are easily allowed and set up.
What does Joomla cost?
Potentially, nothing. Zero. Zip. All the functionalities you could ever want in a content management system are free with Joomla. There are some provisions to pay for certain templates from some providers but strictly speaking that is not necessary. The same sort of content management system, even if you could find one with Joomla’s amazingky extendable functionality another way, which is doubtful, would cost you thousands, making Joomla a true bargain – and free!
It’s free, you say? That sounds dodgy!
Many organizations get a little antsy when they see a free system. They think they will be left high and dry to deal with a ton of problems. That is understandable, especially in business. However, Joomla offers very good support services for any of their solutions. Joomla is highky extendable, so it can be a little tough to learn how to use it, but there is plenty of online help available. You can also try a demonstration model of Joomla prior to getting the full package for yourself.
So, there really is no catch. Joomla is free, secure and reliable and the support is good. Sure the learning curve may be steep when you first get Joomla, but you will be glad you got used to using it when you see all the things it can do for you.
Joomla is the state-of-the-art technology for content management systems. It finds wide applications in building websites and other online applications. It is a free resource that is available to everyone and it is open source, which means that the source code is available to you as a user and you are free to customize it. You can use joomla to keep track of website content such as text, photos, documents etc. It finds main applications in corporate portals, corporate intranets, websites for commercial institutions government applications, personal websites etc. Joomla is written using php programming language and uses SQL for the database support.
One of the most attractive features of Joomla is that it is very easy to use even for a user with little experience. The time required to set up a website using Joomla is very little. In a matter of a few minutes, you can have your website up and running. With Joomla, the task of administering the website is so easy and simple that you can do it almost entirely by yourself. There are thousands of variations of Joomla available which make it suited for just about any requirement and hence is very extensible. If you are a programmer, Joomla allows you to build and deploy applications in a very short span of time. Joomla is a favorite package when it comes to building applications for Inventory control systems, data reporting tools, application bridges, product catalogs, ecommerce systems, business directories and communication tools.
Installing Joomla on your computer system is very easy. You just have to use Apache web servers to do this job and then download the package XAMPP for windows after which you should download and install the Joomla package. When choosing an installation you can either choose a local host installation or choose a remote host installation. In the local host installation, all the required files are placed on your computer itself and then the installation is carried out from your system. In a remote host installation, the installation process is carried out through a remote web server. The local host installation is more preferred because the files are more easily accessible to you.
Joomla provides a multiuser and multilevel environment which enables many users to interact amongst themselves in the development of the site. It also offers a “what you see is what you get” editor that aids in the process of content editing. Plug-in support is the main feature that helps a programmer to add or enhance functionalities very quickly with least modification to the existing content. Joomla goes a long in search engine optimization of your site. This helps the site to be ranked better when the search engine presents its list of results to the user.
Over and above all these, it provides better ways to manage the banner advertisements polls, extensions, mails, statistics etc. To create the individual sections, Joomla provides the section manager in which you simply need to enter the details of the section you need to create and then save it to create a new section. By offering such easy to use features, Joomla has become the choice technology for building websites.
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