Joomla

What Is Joomla?

Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable. This popular and robust open source content management system (CMS) was written with PHP for publishing content on the World Wide Web and intranets using a MySQL

• Joomla has a database driven site engine. Every element (images, templates etc) of Joomla is stored in a centralized database.
• The content that is displayed on the website can be scheduled as per the requirement of the web editors.
• Joomla is template driven i.e. each module in a website is associated with a separate template.
• Joomla has an in-built WYSIWYG text editor that enables easy editing and formatting of content.
• Joomla provides a random news flash generator.
• A wide variety of plug-ins are available with Joomla Since Joomla is based on a modular architecture plug-ins can be easily integrated to enhance its basic functionalities.
• The options such as email the page, polls, rate this article, and print page etc is in-built in Joomla thereby enabling interactivity to be built into the website.
• Joomla provides extensive tools to generate and view user statistics reports.
• The performance of the Joomla website can be improved by the means of page caching, which is provided in Joomla.
• Joomla provides support for multiple languages.
• News feeds from various websites can be gathered using the News Feed Manager available in Joomla.
• All content items in Joomla can be archived using the Archive Manager. The content items can be archived for future reference.
• Joomla generates search engine friendly URLs.
• Joomla provides a page caching mechanism that helps in improving the performance of the website.

Joomla is used all over the world for everything from simple or small websites to a large corporate web application. Joomla is scalable, easy to manage, and trustworthy