Joomla! is an award-winning Content Management System (CMS) that will help you build websites and other powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla! is an open source solution that is freely available to everybody.
If you're new to Web publishing systems, you'll find that Joomla! delivers sophisticated solutions to your online needs. It can deliver a robust enterprise-level Web site, empowered by endless extensibility for your bespoke publishing needs. Moreover, it is often the system of choice for small business or home users who want a professional looking site that's simple to deploy and use.
Joomla is a production of Open Source Matters, the same team that brought the award winning Mambo Content Management System. OSM has taken final stable version of Mambo (4.5.2.3), given it a spring clean and named it Joomla! 1.0 In addition, several small features were added which were planned for future release.
Joomla is very versatile and can be used to easily manage every aspect of website, from adding content and images to updating a product catalog or taking online reservations. Following are few areas where Joomla! can be implemented:
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Once Joomla! has been installed and configured, it allows non-technical user to add update the content on the website in a controlled fashion. There is no need to master HTML or learn complicated Web scripting languages or pay for any chages/updates to the web site. Anybody with basic word processing skills can easily learn to maintain and manage a Joomla site via a simple, browser-based interface. Joomla helps easily adding new press releases, news items, manage pages, product images, and create an unlimited amount of sections or content pages on the site.