The CMS

Information about the software behind Joomla!

Welcome to Joomla!

Tuesday, 12 August 2008 05:00 Eric Morris

Joomla! is a free open source framework and content publishing system designed for quickly creating highly interactive multi-language Web sites, online communities, media portals, blogs and eCommerce applications.

Joomla! Logo Joomla! provides an easy-to-use graphical user interface that simplifies the management and publishing of large volumes of content including HTML, documents, and rich media. Joomla! is used by organisations of all sizes for intranets and extranets and is supported by a community of tens of thousands of users.

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Joomla! Overview

Saturday, 09 August 2008 02:49 Eric Morris

If you're new to Web publishing systems, you'll find that Joomla! delivers sophisticated solutions to your online needs. It can deliver a robust enterprise-level Web site, empowered by endless extensibility for your bespoke publishing needs. Moreover, it is often the system of choice for small business or home users who want a professional looking site that's simple to deploy and use. We do content right.

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The Joomla! Community

Tuesday, 12 August 2008 11:50 Eric Morris

Got a question? With more than 210,000 members, the Joomla! Discussion Forums at forum.joomla.org are a great resource for both new and experienced users. Ask your toughest questions the community is waiting to see what you'll do with your Joomla! site.

Do you want to show off your new Joomla! Web site? Visit the Site Showcase section of our forum.

Do you want to contribute?

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Joomla! Features

Friday, 08 August 2008 18:32 Eric Morris

Completely database driven site engines
News, products, or services sections fully editable and manageable
Topics sections can be added to by contributing Authors
Fully customisable layouts including left, center, and right Menu boxes
Browser upload of images to your own library for use anywhere in the site
Dynamic Forum/Poll/Voting booth for on-the-spot results
Runs on Linux, FreeBSD, MacOSX server, Solaris, and AIX

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Support and Documentation

Saturday, 09 August 2008 03:33 Eric Morris

Support

Support for the Joomla! CMS can be found on several places. The best place to start would be the Joomla! Official Documentation Wiki. Here you can help yourself to the information that is regularly published and updated as Joomla! develops. There is much more to come too!

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Joomla! Facts

Saturday, 09 August 2008 11:46 Eric Morris

Here are some interesting facts about Joomla!

Over 210,000 active registered Users on the Official Joomla! community forum and more on the many international community sites.
- over 1,000,000 posts in over 200,000 topics
- over 1,200 posts per day
- growing at 150 new participants each day!
1168 Projects on the JoomlaCode (joomlacode.org ). All for open source addons by third party developers.
- Well over 6,000,000 downloads of Joomla! since the migration to JoomlaCode in March 2007.
Nearly 4,000 extensions for Joomla! have been registered on the Joomla! Extension Directory
Joomla.org exceeds 2 TB of traffic per month!

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What's New in 1.5?

Monday, 11 August 2008 17:13 Eric Morris

As with previous releases, Joomla! provides a unified and easy-to-use framework for delivering content for Web sites of all kinds. To support the changing nature of the Internet and emerging Web technologies, Joomla! required substantial restructuring of its core functionality and we also used this effort to simplify many challenges within the current user interface. Joomla! 1.5 has many new features.

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