WHAT IS JOOMLA?
Joomla is a “framework” for building websites. Joomla provides the overall “content management system” (CMS) for organizing and maintaining your website. What is special about Joomla is that it is “extendable,” which means you can choose from thousands of Joomla extensions that easily “plug-in” to enhance the appearance, expand the power and maximize the results of your website. Joomla! is an open source solution that is available to all web designers.
WHY USE JOOMLA?
Building websites using static web pages becomes unwieldy once the content starts to add up. They are also often difficult to update. Finding content on the site is harder since a static site usually doesn’t have a search function. Another big problem with a static website is the navigation. When you need to add another navigation button to introduce a new section or category to your site you generally have to rebuild the entire navigation system for the whole site just to accommodate the new section. For this reason alone a content management system like Joomla! makes much more sense to use. Joomla! is a powerful yet easy to use open source content management system to build websites. It is one of the most popular web site software available.
ADVANTAGES OF OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
But what is an open source content management system? A good open source software like Joomla! is developed and constantly improved by highly skilled individuals volunteering their time to work together for the benefit of everyone who uses the software. The source code of the software is available for everyone to examine so you can know exactly what you are getting as opposed to commercial software which is not open to scrutiny. Since the software is open many developers can create components and extensions to greatly enhance the functionality of a website. Commercial software can be very expensive to achieve the same capabilities that good open source software like Joomla! affords you.
Making your website look great is so easy with Joomla!. There are an abundance of professionally designed themes that you can use with your site. Themes can be used as is or even modified to give your site a unique look or conform to your graphic brand as needed.
