Joomla ? an excellent open source CMSPosted by Avijit on August 18th, 2010 Joomla is an open source CMS (Content Management System) Application. Joomla usually used for creating themed websites. There are numbers of CMS system available on Internet, but usually they are costly, there are another type of CMS is open source. The main reason ofusing Joomla is ? it is extremely easy-to-use and easy to implement in your server. Joomla is PHP/MySQL based CMS system, which means ? if you want to run it in your server, you need a hosting with LAMP (Linux / Apache / MySQL / PHP) feature. Because of its nature, it is completely free from licensing fees but there are some extensions or plug-ins available for price. Current Joomla Version is ? 1.6. Unlike other open source CMS; Joomla has a excellent and large extension directory. Extensions are the extra modules, which usually do not, come with main CMS package; you have to download them and install them separately. Extensions enable you to completely customize your CMS according to your need. Joomla developers classifies the extensions into different categories for easy navigation, such as ? administration, contacts and feedback, ads and affiliates, financials, social networking, e-commerce and many more. Joomla templates, extensions, components and templates available in both versions free and commercial. There are lots of sites that offering free Joomla template. Other than English, Joomla also available in other languages; to use those language features, you must download those language packs and install separately. The installation process of any Joomla module is not a difficult task. To install any module or any component, log on to site administration panel and you can file Extension manager and installation wizard from top menu. There are some anecdotes in the market that, Joomla made site are not SEO friendly, but this is not true. Lots of web masters using this CMS and they make it perfectly for major search engines. Now the question is how do I make my Joomla site SEO friendly? Well the answer is ? you can use different SEO related extensions and. htaccess file in your server for creating the dynamic link to static links. Still if you are not sure to use Joomla, as your CMS software, for the sake of help and documentation, don?t worry, you can find a very well written documentation form their official site. Not only that, you can find numbers of other customization guide on major search engines by typing your required keyword. For example ? you want to create menus in Joomla, go to Google and type ?How to create menu in Joomla? without quotes, you can find thousands of guides in text or video format. As a matter of fact, extensions are the most important things in Joomla. Joomla extensions includes ? community builder or social networking features, e-commerce, shopping cart, multimedia galleries, image galleries, flash galleries, data collection and reporting, blog, and advertisement module and many more?. Once you understand and the operations and the basic concept of this CMS, you just love it, and start your web development process through this CMS. Like it? Share it! More by this author |