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Below are just a few of our clients websites - Joomla! is a content management system used to create websites. Joomla! allows web designers to construct sites by combining templates, modules and components, and requires no knowledge of programming to use. Joomla!'s framework is written in PHP, as are the modules used to customize websites. There is a wide variety of modules available, including RSS feeds, polls, and language internationalization, which make it easy for Joomla! users to publish content to the web. Joomla! can also be used to publish information on intranets, making it a useful organizational tool.


Because Joomla!'s code is open source, anyone is able to write modules and extensions of the system, making it extremely adaptable. One of Joomla! key features is its graphical interface, which has less of a learning curve than other CMS systems.


The name 'Joomla' is a transliteration of a Swahili word meaning 'all together' or 'as a whole.' It was selected as part of a re-branding process for software originally developed as part of the Mambo content management system.The basic idea of Joomla! (or any web content management system for that matter) is that a non-technical person often needs to be able to keep their own website up-to-date without having to call on a web developer to make changes every time. Of course there are some things that can only be done by a web developer, but for simpler tasks such as changing the wording of a paragraph, it is an unnecessary burden and expense for both parties if you have to get a developer to make the changes.


Joomla! therefore separates the technical tasks from the non-technical by providing tools to help a non-technical person manage and organise the content of their website. It also provides additional tools which help to add more functionality to a site (by installing ready-made components, for example to add a guestbook, forum, events calendar, etc).