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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