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First, I design and develop web sites primarily with Joomla!. 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 have a growing, active community of more than 150,000 friendly users and developers, who continue to make Joomla! what it is today. 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. Out of the box, Joomla! does a great job of managing the content needed to make your website sing. But for many people, the true power of Joomla! lies in the application framework that makes it possible for thousands of developers around the world to create powerful add-ons and extensions. Here are just some examples of the hundreds of available extensions:
Many companies or organizations have requirements that go beyond what is available in the basic Joomla! package or in a freely available extension. Thankfully, Joomla! offers a powerful application framework that makes it easy for developers to create sophisticated add-ons that extend the power of Joomla! into virtually unlimited directions. Using the core framework, developers can easily build:
If your company or organization hires a third party Joomla! developer or builds in-house software using the Joomla! framework, you are building on an open platform that does not tie you to any one developer or to a proprietary, closed application. The beauty of Joomla! is that you can leverage the framework and user interface to deliver applications to your end users in a familiar, powerful environment. Joomla! is free, open, and available to all under the GPL license.
And, if you're interested in a Blogging solution, I use Word Press as a primary platform of choice. As with the features mentioned above for Joomla!, so too many of the same features and technologies are incorporated into Word Press, which is also Open Source, and is also released under the GPL license...it's free software as well. However, the business application aspects of Word Press are more limited than what are found in developing with Joomla!. |