Joomla is an open source content management system which can be downloaded and used completely free of charge. You can use it to build any type of website that you might desire from a personal website through organization website to a fully functional and secure commercial website. There are a huge number of Joomla extensions which are available to extend the functionality of your website to allow it to do whatever you could ever want it to do.
However, like everything else in the world, Joomla is not perfect. It does have some downsides. However, by having a look at the potential downsides of Joomla now, you will be able to see that its problems are far outweighed by its advantages.
First, Joomla plug-in extensions make an awful lot of things possible, but the more Joomla extension you have, the slower your Joomla website will load. Be very careful that you are not adding functionalities for the sake of them and that they are truly needed by the people who will be using your Joomla website and it will probably work just fine.
Like with all other extensions, there may be incompatibilities between your Joomla plug-ins. For instance, certain l;ibrary plug-ins may clash with other similar functions that are already installed within your Joomla website. The thing to do is do your homework before you install a Joomla plug-in. Read forums on Joomla. There are a lot of them. Has anyone else had a problem with this particular Joomla extension? If they have, think twice about using it yourself or see if the problem was overcome with a patch which you may need to get.
Another downside of Joomla is that you are totally reliant on the work of other people. This can be frustrating when you need a fix for a problem and the developer is reluctant to help. However, this problem is not unique to Joomla and goes along with the territory of all open source content management systems.
Some people have expressed the concern of the security of Joomla. However, if you are careful to only install tried and tested extensions that do not come from a third party whom you are unsure whether you should trust, Joomla is a pretty secure system.
Joomla is a complex system, small problems are bound to arise from time to time. This can be through rogue plug-ins or file permission errors. Like with all content management systems, it takes a little while to get your head around it in order to make the most of it. But that can be said of anything to do with website building.
In short, there are problems with Joomla, potentially, but they are no different to the problems associated with any other open source content management system. There are ways to overcome the problems and the downsides of Joomla are far outweighed by its advantages. Go into Joomla with your eyes open, being realistic about what you need your website to do and being prepared to learn and you won’t go far wrong with Joomla.
Some of us worry when we hear that Joomla is free software. We are so used to paying big bucks for software that we can't believe anything good would be free. We've all been raised to think that there's no such thing as a free lunch. Joomla is convincing even the most cynical folks that free software is excellent.
Sometimes when business people hear that Joomla and Joomla extensions are free, they worry that means they are getting something that's not as good as something that costs a lot. On the contrary, Joomla is an amazing story of people around the world working together to ensure that open source (free) technology is outstanding. It's hard to comprehend that this is even possible, but it is truly happening. When a company selects information technology, they are willing to pay for reliability because businesses can not afford downtime and errors. The great news is that Joomla is incredibly reliable and efficient.
The truly amazing thing about Joomla is that any web site can be quickly switched to Joomla so that non-technical people can handle content management easily. This is a technological break through that has big implications for businesses that use the web. Content management is critical to the success of
any business that uses the web.
In 2013, Joomla 2.5.14 as well as Joomla 3.1 was released with great success. Some of the best IT people on earth are involved in ensuring the excellence of Joomla. The first Joomla developer summit is being held this winter in Australia. Work on Joomla is ongoing and some terrific features are being added. One feature of Joomla will be to make it easier to install and manage Joomla extensions. There are an incredible number of Joomla extensions being developed constantly, and Joomla will make the most efficient use of them.
In Joomla 3.1 Joomla will be mobile friendly. Another feature of Joomla will be improvement of access control in the Administrator. This will give the ability to create new user groups with different access levels. It will be possible to have more groups than public, registered and special. For example, you could create staff and management access levels with certain capabilities. There will be more variety in the the rules that allow you to control what different user groups can do. This will greatly increase flexibility in web site administration.
This kind of innovation in the Joomla software is constant. You do not have to pay extra for new new versions as you do with word processing, for example. The same is true for the Joomla extensions. Developers are constantly creating new extensions that give you all kinds of flexibility and efficiency in how you operate. This kind of innovation is totally unique to Joomla. It is an exciting phenomenon not only for users but for the developers who are involved.
So don't hesitate to use Joomla just because it's open source. You are taking advantage of cutting edge technology that is being used by businesses everywhere around the globe.
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