Have you heard about joomla? Perhaps you’ve heard the name or seen the geeky text books and wondered what it’s all about. It used to be called mambo, but joomla is the current incarnation. Joomla is an open source and very powerful content management system or framework. It’s free, easy to install, simple to manage, reliable and used for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications.
In today’s video Jeffrey Cleary provides a simple introduction to joomla and what it can do. He’s also promoting membership of his site my joomla guide. If you were serious about using joomla, it could be worth joining to learn from his tutorials. Joomla has even won awards for innovative software. It’s used for ecommerce, website portals, govenment applications, magazines and more.
It’s actually an application framework. It allows non-techies to build sophisticated websites easily. It has a library of 1000′s of extensions and enhancements you can ‘plug-in’. Once you upload joomla to your webhost it provides a base installation. From there you can configure the look and feel, and add functionality.
It’s great for making blogs, forums or even your own social network website. You can copy everything myspace can do without hiring developers. There are lots of free templates or you can pay for a designer to create a custom theme. And there’s a large developer community to provide development and support.
If you want to create a complex website, without the hassle, take a look at joomla.
