What Is Joomla? PDF Print E-mail
joomla_logoJoomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and 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 everyone. The skill lies in creating a unique looking site based on Joomla!, using Joomla as a site owner is really easy!

What's a content management system (CMS)?

A content management system is software that keeps track of every piece of content on your Web site, much like your local public library keeps track of books and stores them. Content can be simple text, photos, music, video, documents, or just about anything you can think of. A major advantage of using a CMS is that it requires almost no technical skill or knowledge to manage. Since the CMS manages all your content, you don't have to.


The two images on the right (click to expand) show the two ways that an 'article'
(simply put, the content of a webpage) can be edited, either by using the login at the 'front-end' (the left picture) or via the administrators login to the 'back-end (the right picture).

Both provide a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor that allows you to enter text, make it bold, italic, underline etc, insert tables, images and even video.

If you can use a Word -Processor you can use Joomla!
to maintain your site!!

What are some real world examples of what Joomla! can do?

  • Corporate Web sites or portals
  • Corporate intranets and extranets
  • Online magazines, newspapers, and publications
  • E-commerce and online reservations
  • Government applications
  • Small business Web sites
  • Non-profit and organizational Web sites
  • Community-based portals
  • School and church Web sites
  • Personal or family homepages

Here are just a few examples of Web sites that use Joomla:

Joomla is used all over the world to power Web sites of all shapes and sizes. For example:

  • The Guggenheim Museum (New York) - http://www.guggenheim.org
  • United Nations Regional Information Centre - www.unric.org
  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - www.spl.usace.army.mil/cms/index.php
  • MTV Networks Quizilla (Social networking) - http://www.quizilla.com
  • Harvard University (Educational) - http://gsas.harvard.edu
  • Citibank (Financial institution intranet) - Not publicly accessible
  • The Green Maven (Eco-resources) - http://www.greenmaven.com
  • PlayShakespeare.com (Cultural) - http://www.playshakespeare.com

How can I be sure there will be Joomla! support in the future?

Joomla is the most popular open source CMS currently available as evidenced by a vibrant and growing community of friendly users and talented developers. Joomla's roots go back to 2000 and, with over 200,000 community users and contributors, the future looks bright for the award-winning Joomla Project. In fact it has been downloaded over 10,000,000 times!!

The Joomla Solution

Using Joomla for your website is one of the most important steps you will take when deciding on the type of website you are going to have. Joomla provides you and your staff the ability to update manage and create new pages and products at the press of just a few buttons.

Over the past couple of years Joomla has become a common word amongst web developers and the content management system world. Providing it's worth time and time again, Joomla is an award winning Content Management System, along with our skills and template designs the possibilities are endless.

The Joomla administration interface will allow you to create new pages, upload flash and image files to your pages, insert tables, link to documents you have uploaded to your server, using the built in media manager. Display banner ads and links in your advertising space. Stream media such as video and music files from your website, plus much more....

Using the Joomla Content management System will save you money in the long run. Joomla is built around a template, and the templates can be changed and edited at anytime to suit your requirements, without moving, deleting or editing the content on the site. So never again will you have to start from scratch, it is just a process of having your website template redesigned.