Tuesday February 07 , 2012

What's so great about Joomla!?

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. We do content right.

So what's the catch? How much does this system cost?

Well, there's good news ... and more good news! Joomla! 1.5 is free, it is released under an Open Source license - the GNU/General Public License v 2.0.   Joomla! is different from the normal models for content management software. For a start, it's not complicated. Joomla! has been developed for everybody, and anybody can develop it further. It is designed to work (primarily) with other Open Source, free, software such as PHP, MySQL, and Apache.

It is easy to install and administer, and is reliable.

Joomla! doesn't even require the user or administrator of the system to know HTML to operate it once it's up and running.  The online editor has an intuitive design, much like Microsoft Word.  No code required!

To get the perfect Web site with all the functionality that you require for your particular application may take additional time and effort, but with the Joomla! Community support that is available and the many Third Party Developers actively creating and releasing new Extensions for the 1.5 platform on an almost daily basis, there is likely to be something out there to meet your needs. Or you could develop your own Extensions and make these available to the rest of the community.

All you need is a reliable web host who is willing and able to help you with your Joomla! site.  That's where we step in.

Joomla! features:

  • Completely database driven site engines
  • News, products, or services sections fully editable and manageable
  • Topics sections can be added to by contributing Authors
  • Fully customisable layouts including left, center, and right Menu boxes
  • Browser upload of images to your own library for use anywhere in the site
  • Dynamic Forum/Poll/Voting booth for on-the-spot results
  • Runs on Linux, FreeBSD, MacOSX server, Solaris, and AIX

Extensive Administration:

  • Change order of objects including news, FAQs, Articles etc.
  • Random Newsflash generator
  • Remote Author submission Module for News, Articles, FAQs, and Links
  • Object hierarchy - as many Sections, departments, divisions, and pages as you want
  • Image library - store all your PNGs, PDFs, DOCs, XLSs, GIFs, and JPEGs online for easy use
  • Automatic Path-Finder. Place a picture and let Joomla! fix the link
  • News Feed Manager. Easily integrate news feeds into your Web site.
  • E-mail a friend and Print format available for every story and Article
  • In-line Text editor similar to any basic word processor software
  • User editable look and feel
  • Polls/Surveys - Now put a different one on each page
  • Custom Page Modules. Download custom page Modules to spice up your site
  • Template Manager. Download Templates and implement them in seconds
  • Layout preview. See how it looks before going live
  • Banner Manager. Make money out of your site.

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