Joomla Introduction

The project Joomla is the result of a heated discussion between the Mambo Foundation, which was founded in August 2005, and its then-development team.

Joomla is a development of the successful system Mambo.

It is used all over the world for simple homepages and for complex corporate websites as well. It is easy to install, easy to manage, and very reliable.

The Joomla team has organized and reorganized itself throughout the last seven years to better meet the
user demands.

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Why Use It

• 2.8% of the World’s Websites Use It
• It Has More Than 6000 Extensions
• Some of the Biggest and Most Respected Companies in the World Use It
• The Admin Area Inspires Greatness
• The Default Templates are Simply Stunning

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10 Core Features

Joomla is the most popular Content Management System. It is much more than just a powerful content management system. Besides, hundreds of extensions to enhance the functionality of any Joomla website, Joomla itself includes some powerful built-in features (or core features).

#1 Content Management

Joomla’s simplified three-tiered system of articles makes organizing the content a snap. The content can be organized in any way. Website users can rate articles, e-mail them to a friend, or automatically save a PDF.

Administrators can archive content for safekeeping, hiding it from site visitors. On public Web sites, built-in e-mail cloaking protects email addresses from spambots.

Creating content is simple with the WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor, giving even novice users the ability to combine text, images, and formatting in an attractive way. There are a number of pre-installed modules to show the most popular articles, latest new items, newsflashes, related articles, and much more.

#2 User Management

Joomla has a built-in registration system that allows users to configure personal options. There are multiple user groups with various types of permissions on what users are allowed to access, edit, publish and administrate.

Also, Authentication is an important part of user management, and Joomla supports multiple protocols, including LDAP, OpenID, and even Google mail.  So, This allows users to use their existing account information to streamline the registration process.

#3 Media Manager

The Media Manager is the tool for easily managing media (image and others) files or folders. The Media Manager is integrated into the Article Editor tool to grab images and other files at any time.

#4 Contact Management

The Contact Manager helps users to find the right person and their contact information. It also supports multiple contact forms going to specific individuals as well as groups.

#5 Banner Management

It’s easy to set up banners on Joomla powered website using the Banner Manager, starting with creating a client profile. After adding campaigns and banners, impression numbers, special URLs and more can be pre-set.

#6 Search

Joomla’s search feature helps navigate users to the most popular search items and provides the admin with search statistics.

#7 Web Links

Providing link resources for site users is simple and can be sorted into categories, and even count every click.

#8 RSS

With It, it is very easy to syndicate site content, allowing users to subscribe to new content in their favorite RSS reader. Also, It’s equally easy to integrate RSS feeds from other sources and aggregate them all on the website.

#9 Menu Manager

The Menu Manager allows creating as many menus and menu items as you need. You can structure your menu hierarchy (and nested menu items) completely independent of the content structure. Just Put one menu in multiple places and in any style you want; use rollovers, dropdowns, flyouts, and just about any other navigation system you can think of.

#10 Template Management

Templates in It are a powerful way to make the site look exactly the way you want and either use a single template for the entire site or a separate template for each site section. It is very simple to change the look of the website without distorting the content structure.

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Advantages And Disadvantages:

Advantages

• Open source- The best advantage of using the Joomla CMS is that it is an open-source platform and is available for free. All the source codes are available for free and the user can reuse them as per the requirements. If you want to hoard some of your hard-earned money you must make your website using Joomla CMS.
• Usability- Joomla CMS can be used for making any kind of website, right from small, simple, and personal blogs to the large corporate website or e-commerce websites. The plenty of options and features available in Joomla CMS enable the user to make a website with all the necessary modules. One can also make organizational websites and government applications using the Joomla CMS. Even online communities or online magazines could be created easily by using Joomla CMS.
• Accessibility- Joomla Content Management System is very easy to use, and even a layman with no technical knowledge about HTML programming can use a website. This is one of the major advantages of Joomla CMS which is making it increasingly popular bit by bit. You just need to install Joomla CMS and you are all set to create, edit and manage the content on your website. You do not need to have any prior knowledge about web development to make a website using the Joomla CMS.
• Themes and templates- Joomla CMS comes with various attractive themes and templates. You can make your website look attractive by using different inbuilt templates and themes. You can select the theme and template which goes well with your niche and topic. Selecting or changing the existing theme and template is absolutely easy in Joomla CMS.
• Trouble-free Migration -If you have your website in It you can migrate to any other server with ease.
• Customer Support- it is run by a vast community and if you are facing any technical problem in maintaining your website in It you can submit a report or a bug and your problem will be fixed in real-time b the experienced and large community of Joomla.

Disadvantages

• One major drawback of the Its user experience is that some of its plug-ins work with only some particular scripts.
• You can customize your website extensively as you can do with other open-source platforms.
• The learning curve is larger as compared to other open-source platforms.
• Makes the website heavy to load and run.

Hope this article helps!