There are many Content Management Systems available on the Internet and so sometimes it becomes difficult for one to choose the right one from it. Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online web applications. Ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular and best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone to create various kind of websites as below:
- Corporate Web sites or portals
- Corporate intranets and extranets
- Online magazines, newspapers, and publications
- E-commerce and online reservations
- Government applications
- Small business Web sites
- Non-profit and organizational Web sites
- Community-based portals
- School and church Web sites
- Personal or family homepages
Here’s why one should use Joomla for his online project.
- It is Powerful – Joomla is template driven solution which makes it powerful to play with the contents like articles and various media files. No matter how small or significant change is needed on the website, Joomla can handle it very easily.
- It is Flexible- With thousands of freely available extension, one can enable it with many useful value added features like photo gallery, video gallery, events, calendar, slideshows, polls, surveys etc.
- It is Easy-to-Use – Joomla is very simple to use and straightforward. One can learn about it in a couple of days. There are very helpful videos and tutorials available on the internet. Joomla’s administrator’s interface is very user-friendly that makes users feel comfortable.
- It is Open Source – This is one of the main advantages of Joomla. It is free and open source which allows users to change its source code as required by the project. It is not that one can only redesign it but can also use ready-made templates available on the Internet.
- It is Scalable – Joomla comes with many different versions and also provides various upgrades from one version to another so users get benefit of up-to-the-date features available.
At last but not least, Joomla is a secure CMS that is the most needed attribute of any project.
