Joomla! is an award-winning Content Management System (CMS) that will help you build websites and other powerful online applications. Best of all, Joomla! is an open source solution that is freely available to everybody. Joomla! can be used to easily manage every aspect of your website, from adding content and images to updating a product catalog or taking online reservations. We handle all aspects of Joomla service. We provide a wide array of Joomla services, including but not limited to. Joomla search engine optimization, Joomla website design, Joomla solutions, Joomla consulting and much much more.

Joomla! is used all over the world to power everything from simple, personal homepages to complex corporate web applications. Here are just some of the ways people use our software:

* Corporate websites or portals
* Online commerce
* Small business websites
* Non-profit and organizational websites
* Government applications
* Corporate intranets and extranets
* School and church websites
* Personal or family homepages
* Community-based portals
* Magazines and newspapers
* the possibilities are limitless…

Joomla! for End Users

The basic Joomla! package is designed to be easy to install, even for non-programmers. Most people have no trouble getting our software up and running, and there is plenty of support available for newbies. We have a growing, active community of more than 40,000 friendly users and developers on our forums eager to help.

Once Joomla! is installed and running, it is simple for even non-technical users to add or edit content, update images, and to manage the critical data that makes your company or organization go. Anybody with basic word processing skills can easily learn to manage a Joomla! site.

Via a simple, browser-based interface you will be able to easily add new press releases or news items, manage staff pages, job listings, product images, and create an unlimited amount of sections or content pages on your site. You can try our simple demo to get quick taste of what Joomla! is all about.
Taking Joomla! to the Next Level

Introduction To The Joomla Content Management System

Joomla! is one of the most powerful 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, is simple to manage, and reliable, and offers the perfect balance of power, flexibility and ease of use. It is Open Source and free. In this, the first in a series of introductory articles I try to answer some of the Frequently Asked Questions I am asked when I first tell people about Joomla.

What is a Content Managemet System - How will it help me?

A Content Management System separates the design and management of your website and site navigation from the process of entering (and displaying) your content. If you have ever built a website that ran to more than 10 pages you have probably run into the problems associated with adding new pages, or groups of new pages. It becomes difficult to add to the menu of every existing page. A Content Management System handles the Menu’s, breadcrumbs and any other navigational aids for you. This leaves you (and your team) free to concentrate on your writing.

If you ever decide to change the look and feel of the whole site - then you have a really large job on your hands.With a Content Mangement System or CMS the site is driven by templates into which your content is inserted on the fly. In this way the entire look of your site can be changed with the press of a button.

Any other reasons why a Content Management System like Joomla is the way to go?

Indeed there are. Because a CMS works in a dynamic manner, retrieving your writing from a database and incorporating it into your current template to build your page, there are other things it can do while it is at it. Your main content is integrated into the ‘central’ part of the page but around the periphery of the page other ‘modules’ can be carrying out related tasks. Lists of ‘most popular’, ‘most recent’ or ‘related’ articles can be integrated into your page, polls allowing people to vote on issues, newsletter signup can be integrated. There are modules for paypal donations, etc.

How much will Joomla cost me?

Until recently a CMS like this would have cost you / your organisation thousands of pounds. Thanks to the Open Source movement, and to the hard work of a committed bunch of developers at Joomla.org you can now make use of a fully functioning CMS for FREE.

My organisation wouldn’t dream of using a free product - how can we expect support when we experience problems with Joomla?

This is a legitimate business concern. Unlike individuals, who generally prefer low cost but can spare their own time to trouble-shoot problems, we understand that businesses need support services that are reliabile, and offer speedy response times. If you are interested in trying out Joomla, but need to know that there is help available then we can help. We offer a number of service contracts that will aim to keep you on top. Our staff are well known on the Joomla forums - offering free assistance where we can, and building up a reputation for respectful co-operation and friendly assistance. Many of the FAQs were either written by us or contain contributions by us, and we participate in testing new Joomla releases as well as developing components and modules that extend the functionality of Joomla.

Whether you are trying out Joomla with a view to using it for a corporate site or for your own one man website you will be amazed at the flexibility and control that Joomla affords. Of course with such power comes a little complexity. People who have never created a website before, or who have never installed scripts on a server before may find the learning curve is steep.

If I know nothing about HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, Apache web servers, FTP, can I still use Joomla?

The Joomla website contains many helpful resources for anyone struggling.
The documentation section: http://help.joomla.org/
The Support Forums: http://forum.joomla.org/
Can I try it out? Where can I ‘play’ with Joomla?

There is a demonstration installation that can be ‘played’ with at
http://demo.joomla.org/ username: admin - password: admin
Of course the extent to which you can tweak someone else’s installation is very limited. To truly explore Joomla you would need to install your own copy and take full control.