If you don’t already know what it is, allow me to give you a brief introduction to what Joomla actually is. It is a content management system which allows even complete novices or those with little internet experience to build their own websites quickly and easily. You can use the built-in templates and expand the Joomla platform to giuv eit a wide range of functionalities.
There is a lot to recommend Joomla to you but of course, like everything, and certainly like all content management systems, Joomla has to have some downsides. So this article is intended to weigh up the pros and cons of Joomla.
One of the best reasons to use Joomla is to avoid the expense of getting a professional web design company. With Joomla, even a novice can design and implement a great website. Another plus is that is free and that means a lot! It is also easy to download and quick to use. Text and images can be inserted in minutes.
Joomla doesn’t have many requirements, but one of them is a good LAMP server such as Apache or MySQL.Of course, you can also run Joomla on Windows. The Joomla templates can then be installed in seconds. All you do is visit the template archive at Joomla’s back end, upload it then click on it to activate the template. You have your Joomla site!
Joomla also has a huge range of extensions which can be installed. These massively extend the functionality of your Joomla website. There are many galleries of images an plug-ins which allow you to use and manipulate these images within your Joomla website. You can build interactive forums, polls, video plug-ins etc – anything that you could possibly want on your website. Joomla facilitates it all.
Some of these Joomla plug-ins you will need to buy, or at least there is the opportunity to pay for more advanced versions. But the vast majority of things that you would want to do with your Joomla website can be found absolutely free, which has to be a great pro for Joomla over many other content management systems. You are also completely at liberty to modify these plug-ins without having to ask anyone for permission to do so.
Joomla websites are very secure. The Joomla development team take security very serious so whenever a security threat or weakness is detected they quickly develop a patch to shore up their security protection. You can also build in security checkpoints through Joomla’s.htaccess files.
The online Joomla community is thriving so you will never be short of advice and help. If you have any questions about anything to do with Joomla, just post them and someone will quickly answer. That is – if the answer isn’t already in the forum before you’ve had a chance to ask!
Some people criticize Joomla websites for being slow to run, but this can be easily remedies using caching extensions. This means the problems is easily got around and that can be said of any problems you may encounter with the building of Joomla websites. They are meant for people without any particular web design knowledge or experience and where there are problems, there are plenty of online Joomla experts and enthusiasts ready to lend a hand to help you out of a fix.
You are probably thinking about switching your website to Joomla. No wonder. Almost everybody who knows anything about websites is switching. Joomla's advantages are truly amazing. Joomla is an open source (free) platform for web sites that is reliable and effective. Most importantly, Joomla gives nontechnical people the tools to manage the content of their own websites in ways they never would have thought possible.
When you originally had our website set up, you probably paid a lot of money to some website design company. Every time you've wanted to do something different on the website, you have to pay more money to the technical people. It's understandable that some businesses just give up on making any changes and let their websites stagnate. However, in these economic times, that's a sure way to let the competition beat you.
Joomla is a totally different website platform. Once your website is switched over to Joomla, you will be able to easily make changes to your content. You won't need someone who knows HTML (website computer language) to make changes. You can add content to the website yourself and modify presentation of it.
If you're not quite sure you could do that, take a “test drive” on the Joomla demo web site. Create an account on the demo web site by entering your email. When you get the activation email, just click to get started. You'll find that it is incredibly easy to use Joomla. You will have access to your demo account for a month so you can spend a lot of time getting used to it. You can try uploading articles and then manage them individually or globally. There are a number of other functions you can try out with the demo, such as mass mail. As you try the Joomla demo, you'll start thinking about how much easier it would be manage your website's content this way.
You can also read the Joomla Quick Start Guide and watch a training video. The training guide gives you step-by-step instructions for building a Joomla website. You'll be taken through an example of a website for a fictitious landscaping company. You'll learn how to install Joomla and use extensions that provide you with endless options for setting up your website.
If you don't want to switch your website to Joomla yourself, you can find a technical person to do it at very little cost. There are a number of freelancer websites where you can get individual technical people to bid on switching your website to Joomla. In most cases, it shouldn't be more than a day's work. Look over the Joomla extensions and see if there are any that will improve your website's functions. The Joomla extensions are free, too. You can get extensions that allow you to do everything from managing multilingual translations to setting up e-Commerce for unlimited products. If you feel you need technical support to set up the Joomla extensions, that will cost very little. Then you'll be able to manage your content yourself.
If you can use word processing software, you will have no trouble with Joomla. It is totally usser friendly. Once your web site is switched over to Joomla, you will be amazed at what you can do to add content and manage it yourself.
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