What is Joomla?
Joomla is an open source content management system used to create a website and other online applications. Joomla is considered as the most popular website software. Joomla! is written in PHP, stores data in a MySQL database. Joomla modules and components are used to customize your joomla site. There is a wide variety of modules and components available, including RSS feeds, polls, and language internationalization, which make it easy for Joomla users to develop/publish online application, even with minimal knowledge with programming and web design.
Joomla Features:
- Free source code
- A large and eager community of users and developers
- Simple workflow system
- Publishing system for contents
- File manager for uploading and administering files
- Multi language support
- Banner management
- Administration interface that is separated from the website
- Wide range of modules and plugins to add functionality to your site
- Caching mechanism to secure fast page creation with popular sites
- Template manager for administration interface and from the public site (the site that is visible to the public)
Online application that you can develop using Joomla:
- Corporate Web sites or portals
- Corporate intranets and extranets
- Online magazines, newspapers, and publications
- E-commerce and online reservations
- Government applications
- Small business Web sites
- Non-profit and organizational Web sites
- Community-based portals
- School and church Web sites
- Personal or family homepages
Examples of website develop in Joomla:
http://www.efech.net
http://www.nnscstalumni.org
http://www.nonescost.edu.ph
