To make life a little easier for our new Joomla converts as well as those interested in finding out more about Joomla and Joomla Templates, mozami.net tries to demystify some of the jargon for new webmasters. We help explain what Joomla is, how Joomla Templates work, and why Joomla is our favoured choice of CMS.
What is Joomla?
Joomla is a content management system (CMS) for the web.
SO what is a content management system?
A Web Content management system (CMS) is an application used to manage content in (text, images, sound, video… and all the other stuff that goes that goes into making … ) a website.
Most content management systems use a database to hold content, and a presentation layer displays the content to regular website visitors based on a set of templates. Management of the actual content is typically done through a web browser. This allows the webmaster / site owner to easily manage and keep their website up-to-date with the latest content - in most cases, without ever requiring any programming knowledge at all.
Why should i choose Joomla?
Besides being one of the the most active, functional and sought after CMSes out there, joomla has a host of appealing features that make it useful for just about any website. From a small personal blog to a corporate portal with all the bells and whistles, Joomla does it all. Take a look at some quick facts:
5 quick facts about Joomla: Joomla is
- Free. So you spend nothing.
- Open Source (GPL). So you can (or hire mozami.net to) modify it as you please.
- Easy to use. No complications, no hassles.
- Based on PHP. Which is also free. So no cost there. This makes it cross platform so it can run on Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOSX server, Solaris and AIX.
- Based on MySQL. Which is also free. So even more savings! Joomlas site engines are completely database driven.
5 quick features about Joomla
- Page caching improves performance, web indexing, RSS feeds, printable page versions, newsflashes, blogs, forums, polls, calendars, website searching, and language internationalization.
- News, Products or services, About Us, Contact us etc sections fully editable and manageable from a web based interface.
- Fully customisable layouts including left, center and right menu boxes to create your own look and feel with a custom joomla template.
- Browser upload of images and multimedia to your own media library for use anywhere in the site
- Dynamic Forum/Poll/Voting booth for on-the-spot results.
Source: http://www.mozami.net/blog/2006/08/joomla-cms-and-joomla-templates-faq
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