By: Mandeep

Joomla is a open source content management system (CMS), which enables us to build Web sites and powerful online applications and help to publish content on WWW . The name ‘Joomla’ is a transliteration of a Swahili word meaning ‘all together’ or ‘as a whole.’

This is freely available to everyone. Joomla is used all over the world to power Web sites of all shapes and sizes. A major advantage of using a CMS is that it requires almost no technical skill or knowledge to manage. A non-technical person can make changes to keep their own website up-to-date. Joomla’s framework is written in the PHP programming language and uses the MySQL database by default.

Joomla is the most versatile platform for building scalable websites.

The official site for all things joomla is at http://www.joomla.org

Applications

Joomla! is used all over the world to make everything from simple, personal homepages to complex corporate web applications, like : 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
and many more.

Advantages

1. There is a wide variety of modules available in Joomla.
2. Joomla! is available in just one ‘all encompassing’ version - and it is cost free.
3. Joomla! offers an awesome amount of extensions that currently numbers at 3555.
4. It supports multiple languages, so you can say language internationalization.
5. Include RSS feeds.
6. As Joomla is an open source CMS it does not tie you to any one design company, developer or to a proprietary, closed application. You own your site and can develop it with anyone you choose.
7. Joomla™ can also be used to publish information on intranets, making it a useful organizational tool.
8. Joomla Platform meet all the SEO requirements.
9. It supports LAMP technology . LAMP is a short name for Linux + Apache + MySQL + PHP
10. HTML layout is well formed with no nestled tables making it easy to read for crawlers.
11. Meta keywords can be defined at a global level (across the site) and also at page level.
12. Anybody with basic word processing skills can easily learn to manage a Joomla! site.

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http://www.google.com/chrome

At Google, we have a saying: “launch early and iterate.” While this approach is usually limited to our engineers, it apparently applies to our mailroom as well! As you may have read in the blogosphere, we hit “send” a bit early on a comic book introducing our new open source browser, Google Chrome. We will be launching the beta version of Google Chrome tomorrow in more than 100 countries.

So why are we launching Google Chrome? Because we believe we can add value for users and, at the same time, help drive innovation on the web.

All of us at Google spend much of our time working inside a browser. We search, chat, email and collaborate in a browser. And in our spare time, we shop, bank, read news and keep in touch with friends — all using a browser. Because we spend so much time online, we began seriously thinking about what kind of browser could exist if we started from scratch and built on the best elements out there. We realized that the web had evolved from mainly simple text pages to rich, interactive applications and that we needed to completely rethink the browser. What we really needed was not just a browser, but also a modern platform for web pages and applications, and that’s what we set out to build.

On the surface, we designed a browser window that is streamlined and simple. To most people, it isn’t the browser that matters. It’s only a tool to run the important stuff — the pages, sites and applications that make up the web. Like the classic Google homepage, Google Chrome is clean and fast. It gets out of your way and gets you where you want to go.

Under the hood, we were able to build the foundation of a browser that runs today’s complex web applications much better. By keeping each tab in an isolated “sandbox”, we were able to prevent one tab from crashing another and provide improved protection from rogue sites. We improved speed and responsiveness across the board. We also built a more powerful JavaScript engine, V8, to power the next generation of web applications that aren’t even possible in today’s browsers.

This is just the beginning — Google Chrome is far from done. We’re releasing this beta for Windows to start the broader discussion and hear from you as quickly as possible. We’re hard at work building versions for Mac and Linux too, and will continue to make it even faster and more robust.

We owe a great debt to many open source projects, and we’re committed to continuing on their path. We’ve used components from Apple’s WebKit and Mozilla’s Firefox, among others — and in that spirit, we are making all of our code open source as well. We hope to collaborate with the entire community to help drive the web forward.

The web gets better with more options and innovation. Google Chrome is another option, and we hope it contributes to making the web even better.

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