Joomla is a powerful and award- winning Content Management System (CMS) that is helpful in building

Author: Ashish Patel

The beginnings:

Initially released on august 17, 2005, Joomla was started by Mira international formed Non-Profit foundation with the purpose of protecting it from lawsuits. They created website opensourcematters.org, to share information with general public, developers and web designers, etc. the web site received an overwhelming response as over 1000 users joined it the very first day.

Soon teams were organized to develop and work towards growing this community, on September 22, the team was named “Joomla!” from the Swahilli word Jumla, which means - all together, - as a whole.

Content management is useful for any organization today, Joomla website design companies use this powerful resource of content management for its ease of use and scalability and ability to migrate data etc.

Features and advantages:

The reasons for such growing popularity can be attributed to its wide variety of rich features that makes Joomla Website Development Companies and global companies’ place this platform on their top technologies list. Some of its important features are:

  • User management: configuring personal options is made easy with its registration system. It has options for nine user groups which allow specific access and permissions to the members to access, edit, administer or publish.

  • Banner & Language Management: Also allows for easy management of media like files, folders, etc along with language and banner management.

  • Contact manager: helps you find the tight contacts and their information.

  • Search: helps users navigate to the most popular searches and administrators with tracking search statistics.

  • Poll: This option helps you create multiple options for polls, to know more about users.

Advantages:

Some of the advantages that contribute to the growing popularity of this platform:

Open source: Joomla, is an open source technology available free to global users. It can be downloaded free and as such extensions and modules are being developed by developers and programmers across the world making it more powerful and attractive.

Easy to Install: Available free on the internet, it is easy to download, run a few scripts and install it on the server, makes it easy to install and use software.

Redesign is simpler: companies need to update their websites keeping in tune with the changes in organization and markets, it becomes easy to redesign and make changes to the websites, if they are developed using Joomla.

Availability of a wide range of plug ins, extensions: Being an open source platform Joomla is available to global enthusiasts, developers for editing, editing and enhancing its capabilities. All such features make it more advances and feature rich, making it the preferred choice of developers in creating websites that look great and are easy to administer and manage.

The growing popularity of Joomla can be seen in its wide usage, MTV Networks, Social networking Quizilla,, Graduate school (arts and sciences) Harvard university, Restaurant chain IHOP, are all making use of this powerful platform.