Joomla is a popular Content Management System that offers easiest solutions for custom web design and development for all, starting from the newbies to hardcore IT professionals. To know Joomla more aptly, you first need to understand what a Content Management System or CMS is. CMS is more like a library, which holds all your contents including text, videos, music, pictures etc. in its record. The advent of CMS has opened a broad way for the people with little technological knowledge to own and maintain their personal websites. Joomla is one of the most user-friendly and extensive CMSs in today’s world.

Support and share… these are the basic features of Joomla. Based on MySQL and PHP, it is built on a strong framework and offers easy to use applications. Apart from the basic Joomla framework, if the user wants to create a more advanced version of the software, he can create several add-ons in order to make it more powerful.

An open source, Joomla always welcomes research and development. Anyone can write modules on Joomla making it more advanced and user-friendly. These add-ons are downloadable, through the website of the inventor of the add-on. For example, if a user creates a new design or theme on Joomla, it will be available for free download. However, it is better to mention here that not all themes on Joomla are free. The designer can create paid custom themes as well. If any user wants to avail the very theme, he needs to submit the prescribed fees for the design to the creator’s website before finally getting the theme on his website.

Joomla works in a simple architecture collating your content and template (designs and layouts) to make a website. This easy to use software is embedded with various modules such as polls, RSS feeds, language internationalization etc in order to make it more user-friendly. The user does not need extensive web experience and knowledge to publish his content through this software.

The advantages of Joomla:

Open and free: Joomla is an open source and free CMS. The user can install and use without any cost.

Easy to use: Joomla is very user-friendly. There is almost no technological skill needed for using this web site development software.

Accessibility: Joomla is for all, ranging from big corporate portals to non-profit websites, from school and college websites to personal web pages.

Graphical interface: Graphical interface is one of the main advantages of Joomla over other contemporary CMSs. This feature enables less learning and easy understanding of the software from the user’s end.

Advanced features: Joomla has an extensive range of advanced features such as Application bridges, Integrated e-commerce systems, Communication tools, Data reporting tools etc.