Joomla CMS Review – the most popular and versatile Content Management System

Thursday, November 20, 2008, 5:05
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Joomla is a very popular versatile open source Content Management System (CMS) that helps you to develop stable online applications and websites. Free availability, easy-to-use, easy-to-deploy, reliable, easily manageable and highly versatile – that is what has made this software so popular all over the world. The most important part of it is that, you do not require any additional technical knowledge or skill sets to manage this software. A single click installation is offered by many of the web hosting services, so get it install, set it up, and get your new website running – this is all possible so easily by Joomla. Moreover, Joomla is highly extensible software and offers thousands of extensions, out which most are available freely in the Joomla Extensions Directory. Joomla can be used to build websites of any shapes and sizes – be it simple or complex such as;

Websites or portals related to corporate sector
Intranets and Extranets related to corporate sector
Publications, newspapers and online magazine websites
E-commerce and online reservations websites
Government applications
Websites related to small business
Websites related to non-profit and organizational
Portals based on community
Websites related to school and church
Family or personal homepages

There are certain cases when the requirement of the companies or organizations is not available in the basic Joomla package. In those cases, the application framework of Joomla enables you to create add-ons according to your company’s requirement. Joomla is basically based on PHP and MySQL, so that all the applications are built in an open source platform that can be used, shared and supported by anyone. The installation pack of Joomla includes a basic idea to build your website, which is of great help for beginners. A wide variety of free templates are available on the web for Joomla, thus making it easy to change. You can have Ecommerce, forum, gallery add-ons and a lot more with Joomla Content Management System.