What is Joomla! CMS?

We build websites using Joomla, which is an award-winning content management system (CMS) that keeps track of every piece of content on your website, much like your local public library keeps track of books and stores them. Content can be simple text, photos, music, video, documents, or just about anything you can think of. A major advantage of using a CMS is that it requires almost no technical skill or knowledge to manage. Since the CMS manages all your content, you don't have to. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular website software available.

Joomla! CMSJoomla! is real Power
Joomla! CMSBelow is a list of what a Joomla website can do "out of the box." The real power of a Joomla website, though, is in the way you customise it.  Visit the Joomla Extensions Directory to see thousands of ways to enhance your website to suit your needs.


Content Management System (CMS)
Creating content is simple with the WYSIWYG editor, giving even novice users the ability to combine text, images in an attractive way. Once you've created your articles, there are a number of pre-installed modules to show the most popular articles, latest new items, newsflashes, related articles, and more.


Simple Website Management with WYSIWYG Editing
Add and edit content, and build your pages with our easy-to-use Web-based editor. Edit text, add images, embed media, create links, and much more; all through a simple editing form that looks and behaves much like Microsoft Word. Easily access the HTML code for any text on your site by clicking the toggle button in your editor - this allows you to move back and forth between visual editing and code view.


Media File Manager
Upload images, documents, flash files and other media to the server with easy-to-use controls. Easily organise your files into folders. The Media Manager is integrated into the Article Editor tool so you can grab images and other files at any time.


Video Display
Easily integrate video from popular services like YouTube™ and Vimeo. You can also upload and embed your own video using Flash, QuickTime, Windows Media, or many other popular formats.


Manage PDF's
Easily upload PDF's and create links to them so that your visitors can download them.


Menu Manager
The Menu Manager allows you to create as many menus and menu items as you need. Put one menu in multiple places and in any style you want. Also, automatic breadcrumbs are generated to help navigate your site users.


User Management & Permission Levels
Easily create user groups with various types of permissions on what users are allowed to access, edit, publish and administrate. Restrict access to certain content with the click of a button.


Banner Management
It's easy to set up banners on your Web site using the Banner Manager, starting with creating a client profile. Once you add campaigns and as many banners as you need, you can set impression numbers, special URLs, and more.


Contact Management
The Contact Manager helps your users to find the right person and their contact information. It also supports multiple contact forms going to specific individuals as well as groups. Built-in CAPTCHA stops spam.


Polls
If you want to find out more about your users, it's easy to create polls with multiple options.


Website Search
Help navigate users to the most popular search items and provide the admin with search statistics.


Web Link Management
Providing link resources for site users is simple and you can sort them into categories, even count every click.


Syndication and Newsfeed Management
It's easy to syndicate your site content, allowing your users to subscribe to new content in their favourite RSS reader. It's equally easy to integrate RSS feeds from other sources and aggregate them all on your site.


Site Statistics
Check out real-time, built-in website traffic statistics. You'll see which pages are popular and where visitors are coming from.


Cross-Browser Compatibility
Our CMS system works across all operating systems (Windows and Mac) and across all major browsers.

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