What is Joomla? Joomla is an award-winning Content Management System (CMS) that is used world wide to generate everything from simple personal home pages to complex corporate web sites. Joomla has been developed and is maintained by a world-wide community of programmers. Their individual effort and collaboration includes the availability of thousands of ready-made additional features (known as extensions) which can be added to your website as your needs grow.
The Joomla source code evolves as people improve it, adapt it, and fix bugs. In addition, there is plenty of support for those using the product with now over 110,000 signed up for the Joomla discussion forum. What does Joomla offer once your site is up and running? Anyone with basic word processing skills can update your site by adding content, managing images, and keeping company-critical data up-to-date by a simply going on line and logging in. Because its easy to use, you can focus your resources on the bit that really matters- the content. Listed below are some of Joomlas core features.
Ease of use
Functionality
Easy to Manage
Performance
Security
Support Easy to Use
Search engine friendly URLs
Image Resizing
Prototyping
Choose your WYSIWYG Editor
Efficient control of users, links, content and files Functionality
Content Syndication (RSS) enabling the incorporation of news and bulletins
User Profiling
Blog
Picture Galleries
Content Management
FAQ Management
Banner Management
Document Management
Mail Form
Calendar
Polls
Built-in search facility
Search Engine visibility is easily controllable
Data manager for uploading and administering information
Archiving facility, enabling the re-use of content
Publication of content in printable, pdf or email format
Multilingual frontend
User Contributions Management and Performance
Content Scheduling
Simple and expandable template and components system
On-line Administration
Asset Management
Simple web Statistics
Caching mechanism that speeds up sites operation. Security
Content Approval
Email Verification and protection from spam robots
Login History
Session Management
Versioning
Hierarchical Groups Support
Online Help
For a good (and entertaining) overview of the sites you can build with Joomla, view the video below: